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| Title | Author | Publisher | Date |
| Brothers in Arms:The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes | Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem | Bantam Dell Pub Group | 5/1/2004 |
| In Lands Not My Own:A Wartime Journey | Ainsztein, Reuben | Random House | 6/1/2002 |
| Hitler's Beneficiaries:Plunder, Race War, And the Nazi Welfare State | Aly, Gotz | Henry Holt & Co | 1/9/2007 |
| Citizen Soldiers:The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 | Ambrose, Stephen E. | Simon & Schuster | 11/1/1997 |
| D-Day June 6, 1944:The Climactic Battle of World War II | Ambrose, Stephen E. | Simon & Schuster | 6/1/1994 |
| A Woman in Berlin:Eight Weeks in the Conquered City | Anonymous | Henry Holt | 7/14/2005 |
| 16229:The Voices of D-Day | Astor, Gerald | St Martins | 6/1/1994 |
| The Mighty Eighth:The Air War in Europe As Told by the Men Who Fought It | Astor, Gerald | Penguin | 6/1/1997 |
| An Army at Dawn:The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 | Atkinson, Rick | Henry Holt | 10/1/2002 |
| At Ease:Navy Men of World War II | Bachner, Evan (EDT) | Harry N Abrams | 4/1/2004 |
| The Fall of Berlin 1945: | Beevor, Antony | Penguin | 5/1/2002 |
| Touched With Fire:The Land War in the South Pacific | Bergerud, Eric M. | Penguin | 7/1/1996 |
| Warlords:An Extraordinary Re-Creation of World War II Through the Eyes and Minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, And Stalin | Berthon, Simon | Perseus | 3/21/2006 |
| Nazi Gold:The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors | Bower, Tom | Harpercollins | 4/1/1997 |
| Official Secrets:What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew | Breitman, Richard | Farrar Straus & Giroux | 10/1/1998 |
| The Invention That Changed the World:How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution | Buderi, Robert | Simon & Schuster | 10/1/1996 |
| Battle of Wits:The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II | Budiansky, Stephen | Simon & Schuster | 10/1/2000 |
| All Brave Sailors:The Sinking of the Anglo Saxon, August 21, 1940 | Carr, J. Revell | Simon & Schuster | 1/1/2004 |
| In the Shadows of War:An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany | Childers, Thomas | Henry Holt | 1/1/2003 |
| Wings of Morning:The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II | Childers, Thomas | Harpercollins | 5/1/1995 |
| Pearl Harbor Ghosts:A Journey to Hawaii Then and Now | Clarke, Thurston | Harpercollins | 9/1/1991 |
| Soldiers and Slaves:American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble | Cohen, Roger | Random House | 4/5/2005 |
| Death Traps:The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II | Cooper, Belton Y. | Ballantine | 9/1/1998 |
| Marching Home:To War and Back With the Men of One American Town | Coyne, Kevin | Penguin | 2/1/2003 |
| No Simple Victory:Word War II in Europe 1939 - 1945 | Davies, Norman | Penguin | 9/6/2007 |
| Fleeing Hitler:France 1940 | Diamond, Hanna | Oxford Univ | 7/13/2007 |
| Saboteurs:The Nazi Raid on America | Dobbs, Michael | Random House | 2/1/2004 |
| One Soldier's Story:A Memoir | Dole, Bob | Harpercollins | 4/1/2005 |
| The Bielski Brothers:The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Saved 1,200 Jews, and Built a Village in the Forest | Duffy, Peter | Harpercollins | 7/1/2003 |
| Holocaust:A History | Dwork, Deborah | W W Norton & Co Inc | 9/1/2002 |
| General Ike:A Personal Reminiscence | Eisenhower, John S. D. | Simon & Schuster | 4/1/2003 |
| Conscience & Courage:Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust | Fogelman, Eva | Random House | 4/1/1994 |
| War Boy:A Country Childhood | Foreman, Michael | Little Brown & Co | 3/1/1990 |
| The Boys' Crusade:The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 | Fussell, Paul | Random House | 9/1/2003 |
| The War Journal of Major Damon Rocky Gause | Gause, Damon | Hyperion Books | 11/1/1999 |
| The Day the War Ended:May 8, 1945-Victory in Europe | Gilbert, Martin | Henry Holt | 5/1/1995 |
| Agent 146:A True Story of a Nazi Spy in America | Gimpel, Erich | St Martins | 1/1/2003 |
| Conduct Under Fire:Four American Doctors And Their Fight for Life As Prisoners of The Japanese, 1941-1945 | Glusman, John A. | Penguin | 5/19/2005 |
| A Moral Reckoning:The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair | Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah | Random House | 11/1/2002 |
| Hitler's Willing Executioners:Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust | Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah | Random House | 3/1/1996 |
| No Ordinary Time:Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Homefront in World War II | Goodwin, Doris Kearns | Simon & Schuster | 9/1/1994 |
| Among the Dead Cities:The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan | Grayling, A. C. | St Martins | 3/7/2006 |
| Words to Outlive Us:Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto | Grynberg, Micha (EDT) | Henry Holt & Co | 10/1/2002 |
| The Buchenwald Report: | Hackett, David A. (TRN) | Perseus Books Group | 3/1/1995 |
| Women of Valor:The Rochambelles on the WWII Front | Hampton, Ellen | St Martins | 9/4/2006 |
| Armageddon:The Battle for Germany, 1944-45 | Hastings, Max | Random House | 11/1/2004 |
| Tearing the Silence:Being German in America | Hegi, Ursula | Simon & Schuster | 7/1/1997 |
| Red Tails Black Wings:The Men of America's Black Air Force | Holway, John | Barbed Wire Pub | 2/1/1997 |
| Ship of Ghosts:The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors | Hornfischer, James D. | Bantam Dell Pub Group | 10/31/2006 |
| The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors:The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour | Hornfischer, James D. | Bantam Dell Pub Group | 2/1/2004 |
| The Growing Seasons:An American Boyhood Before the War | Hynes, Samuel | Penguin | 3/1/2003 |
| The Holocaust in Romania:The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 | Ioanid, Radu | Natl Book Network | 12/1/1999 |
| Another River, Another Town:A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat--1945 | Irwin, John P. | Random House | 5/1/2002 |
| The Fall of France:The Nazi Invasion of 1940 | Jackson, Julian | Oxford Univ | 6/1/2003 |
| Nazi Terror:The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans | Johnson, Eric A. | Perseus Books Group | 2/1/2000 |
| The Collaborator:The Trial & Execution of Robert Brasillach | Kaplan, Alice | Univ of Chicago | 4/1/2000 |
| The Interpreter | Kaplan, Alice Yaeger | Simon & Schuster | 8/30/2005 |
| The Few | Kershaw, Alex | Perseus Books Group | 11/30/2006 |
| Churchill's Deception:The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany | Kilzer, Louis C. | Simon & Schuster | 6/1/1994 |
| Sala's Gift:My Mother's Holocaust Story | Kirschner, Ann | Simon & Schuster | 11/7/2006 |
| Wine and War:The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure | Kladstrup, Donald | Bantam Dell Pub Group | 5/1/2001 |
| The Woman From Hamburg:And Other True Stories | Krall, Hanna | W W Norton & Co Inc | 6/1/2005 |
| Against All Hope:Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps 1938-1945 | Langbein, Hermann | Continuum Intl Pub Group | 3/1/1994 |
| Marching Orders:The Untold Story of World War II | Lee, Bruce | Random House | 5/1/1995 |
| In Search of Sugihara:The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked His Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust | Levine, Hillel | Simon & Schuster | 11/1/1996 |
| Hiroshima in America:Fifty Years of Denial | Lifton, Robert Jay | Putnam Pub Group | 7/1/1995 |
| Five Days in London, May 1940 | Lukacs, John | Yale Univ | 9/10/1999 |
| A Quiet American:The Secret War of Varian Fry | Marino, Andy | St Martins | 10/1/1999 |
| Between Silk and Cyanide:A Codemaker's War 1941-1945 | Marks, Leo | Simon & Schuster | 6/1/1999 |
| Resistance and Betrayal:The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance | Marnham, Patrick | Random House | 3/1/2002 |
| Striking Back:A Jewish Commando's War Against the Nazis | Masters, Peter | Ballantine Books | 6/1/1997 |
| Up Front | Mauldin, Bill | W W Norton & Co Inc | 12/1/2000 |
| The Real Mrs. Miniver | Maxtone-graham, Ysenda | St Martins | 11/1/2002 |
| Strange Victory:Hitler's Conquest of France | May, Ernest R. | Farrar Straus & Giroux | 8/1/2000 |
| Ivan's War:Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945 | Merridale, Catherine | Henry Holt & Co | 1/24/2006 |
| The Tiger in the Attic:Memories of the Kindertransport And Growing Up English | Milton, Edith | Univ of Chicago Pr | 10/15/2005 |
| Dr. Seuss Goes to War:The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel | Minear, Richard H. | W W Norton & Co Inc | 11/1/1999 |
| And If I Perish:Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II | Monahan, Evelyn M. | Random House | 11/1/2003 |
| Lost and Found:The 9,000 Treasures of Troy : Heinrich Schliemann and the Gold That Got Away | Moorehead, Caroline | Penguin | 7/1/1996 |
| The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle:Memoir of a World War II Bomber Pilot | Morgan, Robert | Penguin | 6/1/2001 |
| At All Costs:How a Crippled Ship And Two American Merchant Marines Reversed the Tide of World War II | Moses, Sam | Random House | 11/7/2006 |
| Miracles on the Water:The Heroic Survivors of a World War II U-Boat Attack | Nagorski, Tom | Hyperion Books | 3/1/2006 |
| The First Heroes:The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raid - America's First World War II Victory | Nelson, Craig | Penguin | 9/1/2002 |
| The Rape of Europa:The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War | Nicholas, Lynn H. | Random House | 5/1/1994 |
| Cruel World:The Children Of Europe In The Nazi Web | Nicholas, Lynn H. | Random House | 5/17/2005 |
| The End:Hamburg 1943 | Nossack, Hans Erich | Univ of Chicago | 12/1/2004 |
| Japan 1945:US Marines Photographs From Ground Zero | O'Donnell, Joe | Vanderbilt Univ | 2/28/2005 |
| Beyond Valor:World War Ii's Ranger and Airborne Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat | O'Donnell, Patrick K. | Simon & Schuster | 3/1/2001 |
| Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs:The Unknown Story of the Men and Women of World War Ii's Oss | O'Donnell, Patrick K. | Simon & Schuster | 3/1/2004 |
| Tales from a Tin Can:The USS Dale, From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay | Olson, Michael Keith | Motorbooks | 3/15/2007 |
| The D-Day Companion:Leading Historians Explore History's Greatest Amphibious Assault | Penrose, Jane (EDT) | Osprey | 4/1/2004 |
| Stalin's Folly:The Tragic First Ten Days Of World War II On The Eastern Front | Pleshakov, Constantine | Houghton Mifflin | 5/15/2005 |
| The Path to Victory:The Mediterranean Theater in World War II | Porch, Douglas | Farrar Straus & Giroux | 5/1/2004 |
| The Fall of Berlin | Read, Anthony | W W Norton & Co Inc | 4/1/1993 |
| Auschwitz:A New History | Rees, Laurence | Perseus Books Group | 1/30/2005 |
| A Stranger to Myself:The Inhumanity of War : Russia, 1941-1944 | Reese, Willy Peter | Farrar Straus & Giroux | 11/2/2005 |
| The Last Escape:The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe, 1944-1945 | Rennell, Tony | Penguin | 5/1/2003 |
| Rich Relations:The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945 | Reynolds, David | Random House | 2/1/1995 |
| Masters of Death:The Ss-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust | Rhodes, Richard | Random House | 5/1/2002 |
| A Past in Hiding:Memory and Survival in Nazi Germany | Roseman, Mark | Henry Holt | 2/1/2001 |
| Let Me Go | Schneider, Helga | St Martins | 7/30/2004 |
| The Amber Room:The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure | Scott-Clark, Catherine | St Martins | 5/1/2004 |
| Enigma:The Battle for the Code | Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh | John Wiley | 4/1/2001 |
| On the Natural History of Destruction | Sebald, Winfried Georg | Random House | 2/1/2003 |
| Literature or Life | Semprun, Jorge | Penguin | 3/1/1997 |
| A Boy Called H:A Childhood in Wartime Japan | Senoh, Kappa | Kodansha Amer | 1/1/2000 |
| The Healing Wound:Experiences and Reflections on Germany, 1938-2001 | Sereny, Gitta | W W Norton & Co Inc | 10/1/2001 |
| Poets of World War II | Shapiro, Harvey (EDT) | Penguin | 1/1/2003 |
| After Daybreak:The Liberation Of Bergen-Belsen, 1945 | Shephard, Ben | Random House | 11/15/2005 |
| This Is Berlin:Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany | Shirer, William L. | Penguin | 10/1/1999 |
| Ghost Soldiers:The Forgotten Epic Story of World War Ii's Most Dramatic Mission | Sides, Hampton | Bantam Dell Pub Group | 5/1/2001 |
| On Burning Ground:A Son's Memoir | Skakun, Michael | St Martins | 6/1/1999 |
| Jerzy Kosinski:A Biography | Sloan, James Park | Penguin | 3/1/1996 |
| Remembering:Voices of the Holocaust: A New History in the Words of the Men and Women Who Survived | Smith, Lyn | Pgw | 3/12/2006 |
| The Rescue:A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II | Smith, Steven Trent | John Wiley | 4/1/2001 |
| The Women Who Wrote the War: | Sorel, Nancy Caldwell | Little Brown & Co | 9/1/1999 |
| Witnesses of War:Children's Lives Under the Nazis | Stargardt, Nicholas | Random House | 1/10/2006 |
| The Souvenir:A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War | Steinman, Louise | Workman | 10/1/2001 |
| Day of Deceit:The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor | Stinnett, Robert B. | Simon & Schuster | 12/1/1999 |
| Resistance of the Heart:Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany | Stoltzfus, Nathan | W W Norton & Co Inc | 10/1/1996 |
| When It Was Our War:A Soldier's Wife on the Home Front | Suberman, Stella | Workman | 9/1/2003 |
| War's End:An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission | Sweeney, Charles W. | Harpercollins | 8/1/1997 |
| Brave Men, Gentle Heroes:American Fathers and Sons in World War II and Vietnam | Takiff, Michael | Harpercollins | 11/1/2003 |
| Dresden:Tuesday, February 13, 1945 | Taylor, Fred | Harpercollins | 2/1/2004 |
| Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust | Teveth, Shabtai | Harcourt | 11/1/1996 |
| Sea of Thunder:Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 | Thomas, Evan | Simon & Schuster | 11/7/2006 |
| A French Tragedy:Scenes of Civil War, Summer 1944 | Todorov, Tzvetan | Univ Pr of New England | 8/1/1996 |
| The Wages of Destruction:The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy | Tooze, Adam | Penguin | 3/22/2007 |
| Tomorrow to Be Brave | Travers, Susan | Simon & Schuster | 6/1/2001 |
| Tomi:A Childhood Under the Nazis | Ungerer, Tomi | Natl Book Network | 10/1/1998 |
| Shockwave:Countdown To Hiroshima | Walker, Stephen | Harpercollins | 8/1/2005 |
| The Unseen War in Europe:Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War | Waller, John H. | Random House | 3/1/1996 |
| The War:An Intimate History, 1941-1945 | Ward, Geoffrey C. | Random House | 9/4/2007 |
| 15 Stars:Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall : Three Men Who Saved the American Century | Weintraub, Stanley | Simon & Schuster | 6/12/2007 |
| The Last Great Victory:The End of World War II July/August 1945 | Weintraub, Stanley | Penguin | 7/1/1995 |
| The Setting Of The Pearl:Vienna Under Hitler | Weyr, Thomas | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand | 2/28/2005 |
| Bitter Ocean:The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945 | White, David Fairbank | Simon & Schuster | 5/2/2006 |
| The Sunflower:On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness | Wiesenthal, Simon | Random House | 5/1/1997 |
| Descending From The Clouds:A Memoir of Combat in the 505 Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82d Airborne Division | Wurst, Spencer F. | Casemate | 11/17/2004 |
| Our Mothers' War:American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II | Yellin, Emily | Simon & Schuster | 5/1/2004 |
| Love in the Tempest of History:A French Resistance Story | Yung-De Prevaux, Aude | Simon & Schuster | 4/1/2001 |
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