1945 Podcast Reading List

Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire By: Richard B. FrankPaperback496 Pages Downfall is an analysis of the last months of the Pacific War and the unfolding of the American air campaign over Japan. The story opens with a searing description...

Hell Before Their Very Eyes: American Soldiers Liberate Concentration Camps in Germany, April 1945 By John C McManus Paperback 208 pages The life-altering experiences of the American soldiers who liberated three Nazi concentration camps. On April 4,...

Hiroshimaby John HerseyPaperback208 PagesJune 2020Hiroshima is the story of six people—a clerk, a widowed seamstress, a physician, a Methodist minister, a young surgeon, and a German Catholic priest—who lived through the greatest single...

Author: Gary J. BassPages: 944Published: October 17, 2023   In the epic Judgment at Tokyo, acclaimed historian Gary J. Bass chronicles the lesser-known yet profoundly significant Tokyo War Crimes Trials, where Japanese leaders stood accused of...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin delivers an extraordinary portrait of a nation and a marriage during one of the most turbulent times in American history. No Ordinary Time masterfully weaves together the sweeping narrative of...

Nuremburg: Infamy on Trial Joseph E. Persico Paperback 560 Pages 1995 The Nuremburg trials remain, after nearly a half a century, the benchmark for judging international crimes. Using new sources - ground-breaking research in the papers of the...

Author: Evan ThomasPages: 432Published: May 16, 2023   In Road to Surrender, bestselling historian Evan Thomas delivers a gripping account of the final days of World War II and the intense decision-making that led to Japan’s surrender. Through...

Author: A.J. BaimePages: 448Published: October 3, 2017   A.J. Baime’s The Accidental President offers a riveting portrait of Harry S. Truman during the critical first four months of his presidency—a time that saw the end of World War II,...

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europeby William I. HitchcockHardcover464 Pages2008 A revisionist account of the liberation of Europe in World War II from the perspectives of Europeans offers insight into the more...

The Story of World War II: Revised, Expanded, and Updated by Donald L. Miller and Henry Steele CommagerPaperback704 Pages Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, prizewinning historian Donald L. Miller has written what critics are calling...

Truman David McCullough Paperback 1117 Pages 1992 The life of Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters -- Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe...

With the Old BreedE.B. SledgeOkinawa Paperback352 Pages2007 An Alabama boy steeped in American history and enamored of such heroes as George Washington and Daniel Boone, Eugene B. Sledge became part of the war’s famous 1st Marine Division—3rd...