The following are new books being published on World War II.
The Battle of Britain: Five Months That Changed History; May-October 1940
by James Holland
The Battle of Britain paints a stirring picture of an extraordinary summer when the fate of the world hung by a thread. Historian James Holland has now written the definitive account of those months based on extensive new research from around the world including thousands of new interviews with people on both sides of the battle.
Hitler's Savage Canary: A History of the Danish Resistance in World War II
by David Lampe
After Adolph Hitler made plans to create a model protectorate out of Denmark, Winston Churchill predicted the nation would become the Fuhrer's tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride, the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the Nazis side.
The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War
by Andrew Roberts
Roberts defines the war by Hitler's mistakes. Hitler started the war before Germany was ready, waged war without enough resources, and implemented counter productive domestic policies. Despite this the outcome could have been different without the skill and desperation showed by the Allies.
Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
by Ed Offley
The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the United States and Britain, very nearly denying the Allies their springboard onto the European Continent--a loss that would have effectively cost the Allies the war.
Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage
by Douglas C. Waller
He was one of America's most exciting and secretive generals the man Franklin Roosevelt made his top spy in World War II. Donovan introduced the nation to the dark arts of covert warfare on a scale it had never seen before. Now, veteran journalist Douglas Waller has mined government and private archives throughout the United States and England, drawn on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents, and interviewed scores of Donovan's relatives, friends, and associates to produce a riveting biography of one of the most powerful men in modern espionage.
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A list of some of the most popular spy stories from World War II.
The Wolves at the Door : The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy
by Judith L. Pearson
Born into wealthy Baltimore circles, Virginia Hall surprisingly found herself working for the British Special Operations Executive, the espionage and sabotage organization, during World War II.
The Hornet's Sting : The Amazing Untold Story of World War II Spy Thomas Sneum
by Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan describes how Tommy made incredible escape's from Denmark, while carrying important intelligence about the Nazi atomic bomb and his reception in Britain.
Operation Mincemeat : How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
by Ben Macintyre
In 1943 a body washed ashore off the coast of Spain carrying falsified intelligence documents designed to convince the Germans that Allied forces planned to invade Greece and Sardinia rather than Sicily. The successful execution of this clever ruse, code named "Operation Mincemeat," is the subject of this entertaining nonfiction spy thriller.
Winds of Freedom : The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War IIby Margaret T. Bixler
An account of the creation of the vocabulary and the training of Navajos to send messages in code. The code was used through the Pacific Campaign and never broken.
My Father's Secret War : A Memoir
by Lucinda Franks
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a haunting memoir about a daughter's relationship with her distant father and the shocking scars of war he could never reveal.
Combined Fleet Decoded : The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Japanese Navy in World War II
by John Prados
Prados gives a new picture of the war in the Pacific, one which will challenge many previous conceptions of the way intelligence, of all kinds, was instrumental in defeating Japan.
Zigzag : The Incredible Wartime Exploits of Double Agent Eddie Chapmanby Nicholas Booth
A con man, a womanizer, a thief-and the most remarkable double agent of the World War II. British military intelligence, MI5, called him ZigZag, and he proved to be one of their most valued agents.
Shadows in the Jungle : The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II
by Larry Alexander
The national bestselling author of "Biggest Brother" presents this new account of World War II heroism. Alexander follows the footsteps of the men who made up the elite reconnaissance unit that served as General MacArthur's eyes and ears in the Pacific War.
Roosevelt's Secret War : FDR and World War II Espionageby Joseph E. Persico Joseph Persico has uncovered a hitherto overlooked dimension of FDR's wartime leadership: his involvement in intelligence and espionage operations. Roosevelt's Secret War is crowded with remarkable revelations: -FDR wanted to bomb Tokyo before Pearl Harbor -A defector from Hitler's inner circle reported directly to the Oval Office -Roosevelt knew before any other world leader of Hitler's plan to invade Russia, just to name a few.
They Dared Return : The True Story of Jewish Spies Behind the Lines in Nazi Germany
by Patrick K. O'Donnell In a style more resembling thriller fiction than history, Virginia-based military historian O'Donnell, who specializes in World War II espionage, tells how several friends who had escaped Germany trained with the US Army for some months, then went to the Alpine Redoubt heavily fortified area in Austria to spy for the Allies.
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