940.53-940.54: World War II in Europe (2023)

The following list contains books, published in the last 5 years, that discuss the European theater of World War II. Works in this list will feature battles, campaigns, and personal narratives set in eastern and western Europe as well as Scandinavia, Russia, and northern Africa between 1941 and 1945.

Updated June 9, 2023
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All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
Donner, Rebecca
Paper Book
The thrilling and previously unknown story of the woman who led the largest anti-Nazi resistance group in Germany.

2

Big week : the biggest air battle of World War II
Holland, James
Paper Book
'James Holland is a master' BBC History It was to be the battle to end the air war once and for all. During the third week of February 1944, the combined Allied air forces launched their first-ever round-the-clock bomber offensive against Germany. The...

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The bravest voices : a memoir of two sisters' heroism during the Nazi era
Cook, Ida
Paper Book
'A breathtaking story' Daily Mail 'Extraordinary' The Telegraph on the Cook sisters Desperate circumstances can cause ordinary women to achieve extraordinary things. No one would have predicted such glamorous and daring lives for Ida and Louise Cook two decidedly ordinary...

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Brothers in arms : one legendary tank regiment's bloody war from D-day to VE-day
Holland, James
Paper Book
It took a certain type of courage to serve in a tank in World War Two. Encased in steel, surrounded by highly explosive shells, a big and slow-moving target, every crew member was utterly vulnerable to enemy attack from all sides. Living - and dying - in a tank was a brutal way to fight a war. ...

5

The commanders : the leadership journeys of George Patton, Bernard Montgomery and Erwin Rommel
Clark, Lloyd
Paper Book
A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.

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D-Day girls : the spies who armed the resistance, sabotaged the Nazis, and helped win World War II
Rose, Sarah
Paper Book

7

Eight days at Yalta : how Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin shaped the post-war world
Preston, Diana
Paper Book
Meticulously researched and vividly written, Eight Days at Yalta is a remarkable work of intense historical drama.In the last winter of the Second World War, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin arrived in the Crimean resort of Yalta. Over eight days of bargaining, bombast and...

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The escape artist : the man who broke out of Auschwitz to warn the world
Freedland, Jonathan
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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A game of birds and wolves : the ingenious young women whose secret board game helped win World War II
Parkin, Simon
Paper Book

10

A house in the mountains : the women who liberated Italy from fascism
Moorehead, Caroline
Paper Book
'Moorehead paints a wonderfully vivid and moving portrait of the women of the Italian Resistance.an excellent book. She depicts a tragic fate that is timeless, of dreams forged in adversity, shattered by collisions with practical politics' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TIMES A...

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The island of extraordinary captives : a painter, a poet, an heiress, and a spy in a World War II British internment camp
Parkin, Simon
Paper Book
'Extraordinary yet previously untold true story . . . meticulously researched . . . it's also taut, compelling, and impossible to put down' Daily Express The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups...

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The King's war : the friendship of George VI and Lionel Logue during World War II
Logue, Mark
Paper Book
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the...

13

Last call at the Hotel Imperial : the reporters who took on a world at war
Cohen, Deborah
Paper Book
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators...

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The Nazi conspiracy : the secret plot to kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill
Meltzer, Brad
The little-known true story of a Nazi plot to kill Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at the height of World War II, and how it was averted.

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The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany
Strauss, Gwen
Paper Book

16

No man's land : the trailblazing women who ran Britain's most extraordinary military hospital during World War I
Moore, Wendy
Paper Book

17

Normandy '44 : D-Day and the epic 77-day battle for France, a new history
Holland, James
Paper Book
'A superb account of the invasion that deserves immense praise. To convey the human drama of Normandy requires great knowledge and sensitivity. Holland has both in spades' The Times Renowned World War Two historian James Holland presents an entirely new...

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Operation Columba : the Secret Pigeon Service : the untold story of World War II resistance in Europe
Corera, Gordon
Paper Book
Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. 'This is an amazing story' Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2 Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in...

19

Operation Pedestal : the fleet that battled to Malta, 1942
Hastings, Max
Paper Book
The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people...

20

Poland 1939 : the outbreak of World War II
Moorhouse, Roger
Paper Book
'This deeply researched, very well-written and penetrating book will be the standard work on the subject for many years to come' - Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill- Walking with DestinyThe Second World War began on 1 September 1939, when German tanks, trucks and infantry...

21

Prisoners of the castle : an epic story of survival and escape from Colditz, the Nazis' fortress prison
Macintyre, Ben
Paper Book

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Sicily '43 : the first assault on fortress Europe
Holland, James
Paper Book
'Perfect territory for a military historian of Holland's talents' The Times ___________________________________________________________This is the story of the biggest seaborne landing in history. Codenamed Operation HUSKY, the Allied assault...

23

Spearhead : an American tank gunner, his enemy, and a collision of lives in World War II
Makos, Adam
Paper Book
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner's journey into the heart of the Third Reich.

24

X troop : the secret Jewish commandos of World War Two
Garrett, Leah
Paper Book
THE UNTOLD STORY OF BRITAIN'S MOST SECRETIVE SPECIAL FORCES UNIT June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In desperation, Winston Churchill and his chief of staff form an unusual plan - a new commando unit made up of Jewish refugees. This top secret unit...

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