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After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation by: Giles MacDonoghPaperback656 PagesFebruary 2009 The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World WarWhen the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a...

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 By: Max Hastings Paperback 584 Pages In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including...

Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of GermanyBy: Stephen Ambrose Paperback 528 Pages In this riveting account, historian Stephen Ambrose continues where he left off in his #1 Bestseller D-Day...

Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945by Frederick TaylorPaperback560 Pages2005 For decades it has been assumed that the Allied bombing of Dresden -- a cultured city famous for its china, chocolate, and fine watches -- was militarily unjustifiable, an act...

Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbeby Stephen AmbrosePaperback122 PagesMay 2000 In the final months of World War II, with the Allied forces streaming into Germany on two fronts, a major decision had to be made: where to draw a...

Endgame, 1945: The Missing Final Chapter of World War IIby: David StaffordPaperback624 PagesFebruary 2009To end a history of World War II at VE Day is to leave the tale half told. Endgame 1945 highlights the gripping personal stories of nine...

Fire and Steel: The End of World War II in the West by: Peter Caddick AdamsHardcover688 PagesJuly 2022The final volume in one of the most acclaimed works of military history of this generation.Here is Peter Caddick-Adams' third volume in his trilogy...

Germany, Hitler, and World War II: Essays in Modern German and World History By: Gerhard L. WeinbergPaperback360 Pages German-born historian Weinberg offers a new perspective on German history in relation to Hitler and the formulation of German foreign...

In the Garden of the Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by: Erik LarsonPaperback448 PagesJanuary 2011Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story...

Somewhere There Is Still a Sun: A Memoir of the HolocaustBy: Michael GrenbaumPaperback384 PagesApril 2017Resilience shines throughout Michael Gruenbaum’s “riveting memoir” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about his time in the...

The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945By: Richard OveryPaperback592 pagesTechnology shapes the nature of all wars, and the Second World War hinged on a most unpredictable weapon: the bomb. Day and night, Britain and the United...

The End: The Defiance And Destruction Of Hitler's Germany, 1944 1945 Ian Kershaw Paperback 2012 Examines why the Third Reich resisted surrender for months after it had clearly lost World War II, drawing on testimony from civilians and former...

he Fall of TBerlin 1945 By: Antony Beevor Paperback 528 Pages By December 1944, many of the 3 million citizens of Berlin had stopped giving the Nazi salute, and jokes circulated that the most practical Christmas gift of the season was a coffin...

The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945By: Rick AtkinsonHardcover896 Pages The magnificent conclusion to Rick Atkinson's acclaimed Liberation Trilogy about the Allied triumph in Europe during World War II. It is the twentieth...

The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadtby: Anna HajkovaPaperback376 PagesOctober 2023Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a...

The Orgins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution by: Henry FriedlanderPaperback448 PagesSeptember 1997Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly...

Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II LeadersBy Gerhard L. WeinbergPaperback"Visions of Victory" explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de...

Warsaw 1944: Hitler, Himmler and the Crushing of a City by Alexandra RichiePaperback704 Pages2014 The traumatic story of one of the last major battles of World War II, in which the Poles fought off German troops and police, street by street, for...