What World War Two Books are the best reads?

Question

What are the best World War Two books in your opinion? Only non-fiction please?

Answer 1

Some of the best I remember are:

The Cornelius Ryan trio of: The Longest Day (D-Day), A Bridge Too Far (Operation Market-Garden), and The Last Battle (the Battle for Berlin). All three are excellent reads.
Panzer General by Heinz Guderian
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Panzer Battles by F. von Mellenthin
Infamy by John Toland
Battle: The Story of the Bulge by John Toland
Guadalcanal Diary by Richard Tregaskis
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
The Few by A. Kershaw
Six Armies in Normandy by John Keegan

Answer 2

There are several. Europe: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer. An almost day by day history from the German perspective of WWII. MacArthur, a biography. A detailed work on General Douglas Mac Arthur that provide a considerable amount of History concerning our war with Japan. The Last of the Giants, by William Sulzburger. A comprehensive study of Eisenhower, Stalin, Churchill, and DeGaule.
There are many more. Should you find that one particular individual or battle is of interest, then ask about such on Yahoo Answers in the future.

Answer 3

Eagle Against The Sun by Ronald Spector
(An Excellent Accout of The Pacific Theater Beginning To End)
The Trail Of The Fox by David Irving
(The Definitive Rommel Biography)
The Battle Of Leyte Gulf by Thomas J Cutler
(Thorough And Told From BOTH Sides)
3 of my favorite WW2 books.
But I'm more of a Civil War Buff Myself

Answer 4

James Mitchner wrote some reliable ones. Then there is PT-109 , it grew to become into the story of John F Kennedy's survival after his craft grew to become into broken and sank in or close to the Marianna's. To Hell and lower back,,sensors would decrease that,. The Audie Murphy tale. Bridge over the River Kwai Diary of Anne Frank Alot of those would properly be got here across on Gutenberg or the internet Library.

Answer 5

Nicholas Montserrat's The Cruel Sea.....he went on to a brilliant career as a writer; The Cruel Sea was his first and remains THE definitive account of the British fighting.and winning the 2nd Battle of the Atlantic.

William Manchester was America's best historical writer; wrote on the JFK assasination, the Krupp family in Germany, the definitive biographies of Douglas MacArthur and his third cousin Winston Churchill ( those two were also third cousins to Franklin Roosevelt, but I digress)

as he got to his late 60's this icon of America's liberal professorial elite found he kept remembering and reliving his time as a Marine Raider in the Pacific in WW2....and so he went back to where so many of his generation fought and died and wrote the single best damn history of the Marines war in the Pacific and what it was like to be there...."Goodbye Darkness"

Answer 6

"Stalingrad" by Anthony Beevor

"The Longest Day" "A Bridge Too Far" and "The Final Battle" all by Cornelius Ryan

"The Most Dangerous Enemy-A History of The Battle of Britain" by Stephen Bungay

Or Winston Churchill's six volume "The Second World War"
if you have some time on your hands.

Answer 7

E.B.Sledge Author of Peluliu to Okinowa great read