Book Events for GiGi2000

11th century

• Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare (1000s)

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

14th century

• The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri,

15th century

• King Henry VI (The Arden Shakespeare) (Pt. 1) by William Shakespeare
• The third part of King Henry VI by William Shakespeare
• The tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

16th century

• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

1788-89 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1792 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1796 presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1798 Rebellion

• The Year of The French by Thomas Flanagan

17th century

• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

1800 US presidential election

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

1896

• The Alienist by Caleb Carr

18th century

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

19th century

• Gone With the Wind (Garden City Reprint Edition 1954) by Margaret Mitchell

Afghanistan War, 2001-

• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

AIDS epidemic

• Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes by Tony Kushner

American Civil War

• Grant by Jean Edward Smith
• Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton
• The passing of the armies : an account of the final campaign of the Army of the Potomac, based upon personal reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
• Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
• Abraham Lincoln : the war years by Carl Sandburg (1865)
• The centennial history of the Civil War. Vol.3, Never call retreat by Bruce Catton (1865)
• Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz (1865)
• Gone With the Wind (Garden City Reprint Edition 1954) by Margaret Mitchell ( 1865)
• Grant takes command by Bruce Catton: With maps by Samuel H. Bryant by Bruce Catton (1865)
• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 4: The Great Democracies by Winston S. Churchill (1865)
• The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara (1865)
• The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War by Steven E. Woodworth (1865)
• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)

American Revolution

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1783)
• The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara W. Tuchman (1783)
• John Adams: Volume 1-1735-1784. Volume 2-1784-1826 by Page Smith (1783)
• John Adams by David G. McCullough (1775 ∙ 1783)

Anglo-Spanish War

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1585-1604)

Armenian Genocide

• A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power

Assassination of Agrippina the Younger

• The conspiracy; a novel by John Hersey (58)

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• American Tabloid by James Ellroy (1963-11-22)
• The Death of a President by William Manchester (1963-11-22)
• Report of the Warren Commission on the Assination of President Kennedy - The Dramatic Official Answer to Who Killed Kennedy - with a Special Introduction By Harrison E. Salisbury and Other Material Prepared By the New York Times Exclusively for This Editi by New York Times (1963-11-22)

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• At dawn we slept : the untold story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange (1941-12-07)

The attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II

• By Clancy, Tom Red Rabbit (1981-05-13)

Battle of Bosworth Field

• The tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare (1485-08-22)

Battle of Edgehill

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1642)

Battle of Eniwetok

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of Guam July 21,1944

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of Iwo Jima

• Flags of our fathers by James Bradley (1945)

Battle of Kwajalein

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of Leyte Gulf

• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas (1944-10-26)

Battle of Makin

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of Marston Moor

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1644)

Battle of Midway

• Midway, the battle that doomed Japan; the Japanese Navy's story by Mitsuo Fuchida (1942-06-07)

Battle of Naseby

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1645)

Battle of Okinawa

• Flights of Passage by Samuel Hynes (1945)

Battle of Saipan

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of Tarawa

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of the Atlantic

• Der Seekrieg The German Navy's Story 1939-1945 by Friedrich Ruge (1945)

Battle of the Eastern Solomons

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of the Philippine Sea

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of the Somme

• Patton : a genius for war by Carlo D'Este (1916)

Battle of Tinian

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Battle of Worcester

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1651)

Bay of Pigs Invasion

• American Tabloid by James Ellroy

Bishops' Wars

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1639-1640)

The Blitz

• The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene (1941)

Bloomsday

• Ulysses, including decision of U.S. District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey by James Joyce

Bosnian War

• A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power (1992-1995)

Boston Massacre

• John Adams: Volume 1-1735-1784. Volume 2-1784-1826 by Page Smith

Burr-Hamilton Duel

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1804)

Byzantine Empire

• Byzantium by P. Sherrard

Cambodian genocide

• A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power

Chicago World's Fair

• Let Me Finish by Roger Angell

Civil Rights Movement, USA

• Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

Cold War

• THE INNOCENT by IAN MCEWAN
• The Philby Conspiracy by David Leitch and Phillip Knightley Bruce Page
• Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis by R. F. Kennedy

Constitutional Convention

• Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Bowen
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1787)

Continental Congress

• John Adams by David G. McCullough

Credit crunch

• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Crimean War

• Finnegans wake by James Joyce
• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 4: The Great Democracies by Winston S. Churchill (1856)

Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1649-1653)

Cuban Missile Crisis

• Thirteen days : a memoir of the Cuban missile crisis by R. F. Kennedy (1962)

Cuban Revolution

• Khrushchev Remembers by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (1959)

D-Day

• D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-06-06)
• Time d-day: 24 hours that saved the world (1944-06-06)

Death of Alexander the Great

• The Story of Civilization, Vol II: The Life of Greece by Will Durant. by Will Durant (323 BCE-06-11)

Death of Seneca the Younger

• The conspiracy; a novel by John Hersey (65)

Dissolution of the Monasteries

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1536-1541)

Dreyfus Affair

• THE PROUD TOWER, A PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE WAR 1890-1941 by Barbara W Tuchman

elections

• Travels with Charley in Search of America By John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck (John F. Kennedy)

Elizabethan Era

• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

Emancipation Proclamation

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-01-01)

English Civil War

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1642-1651)

English Reformation

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill

English Renaissance

• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

Essex's Rebellion

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1601)

Federalist Era

• John Adams by David G. McCullough (U.S. history ∙ 1789 ∙ 1801)

FIFA World Cup

• The Barrytown trilogy by Roddy Doyle (1990)

Financial Crisis of 2008

• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin

First Anglo-Dutch War

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1652-1654)

French Resistance

• Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass
• A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII by Sarah Helm

French Revolution

• John Adams: Volume 1-1735-1784. Volume 2-1784-1826 by Page Smith
• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1799)
• Paris in the Terror: June 1793 - July 1794 by Stanley Loomis (1799)
• The Story of Civilization, Part XI: The Age of Napoleon: A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815 by Will Durant (1799)

Gallipoli Campaign

• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester

Gettysburg Address

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1863-11)

Gettysburg Campaign

• The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara (1863)

Gilded Age

• Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

Glorious Revolution

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1688)

Grace Marks Murder Trial

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (1843)

Grand National Horse race

• Battleship : a daring heiress, a teenage jockey, and America's horse by Dorothy Ours

The Great Exhibition

• Age of progress, (Great ages of man) by S. C Burchell (1851)

Great Fire of London

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1666)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Gulf War

• The generals : American military command from World War II to today by Thomas E. Ricks (1991-02-28)

Gunpowder Plot

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1605)

Hamilton–Reynolds affair

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1797)

Holocaust

• Hitler's willing executioners : ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
• A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power
• Sophie's choice by William Styron
• Suite française by Irène Némirovsky
• The final solution : a story of detection by Michael Chabon (1945)

Holy Week

• The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri,

Hundred Years' War

• King Henry VI (The Arden Shakespeare) (Pt. 1) by William Shakespeare ( 1453)

Hurricane Donna

• Travels with Charley in Search of America By John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck (1960)

The Ice Bowl

• When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss (1967)

Interregnum

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (England, 1649-1660)

Interwar Period

• A moveable feast by Ernest Hemingway

Iran-Iraq War

• A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power (1980-1988)

Iraq War

• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
• The generals : American military command from World War II to today by Thomas E. Ricks (2011-12-15)

Jacobean Era

• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

Japanese-American Internment

• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1945)

Jazz Age

• This Side of Paradise (A Scribner Classic) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Adams Presidency

• John Adams by David G. McCullough

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1854)

Korean War

• American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 by William Raymond Manchester (1953)
• The generals : American military command from World War II to today by Thomas E. Ricks (1953-07-27)

Kumbh Mela

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Kurdish genocide

• A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power

League of Nations

• World's end by Upton Sinclair

Liberation of the Philippines

• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas (1945-08-15)

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1861)

Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1858)

Lindbergh kidnapping

• Kidnap; the story of the Lindbergh case by George Waller (1932)

Lyndon Johnson Election to U.S. House of Representatives 1937

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Lyndon Johnson Election to U.S. Senate 1948

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

Middle Ages

• The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri,
• King Henry VI (The Arden Shakespeare) (Pt. 1) by William Shakespeare
• Macbeth (Oxford School Shakespeare Series) by William Shakespeare
• The third part of King Henry VI by William Shakespeare
• The tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare

Monmouth Rebellion

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1685)

Murder of Thomas Becket

• Thomas; a novel of the life, passion, and miracles of Becket by Shelley Smith Mydans (1170)

Napoleonic Wars

• The Story of Civilization, Part XI: The Age of Napoleon: A History of European Civilization from 1789 to 1815 by Will Durant (1815)

Nat Turner's slave rebellion

• The confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1831)

New Deal

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

New Orleans school desegregation crisis

• Travels with Charley in Search of America By John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck

Newark riots

• American pastoral by Philip Roth (1967)

Oil discovery

• Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

Operation Fortitude

• Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph E. Persico (1944-03)

Operation Hailstone

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Operation Overlord

• D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose (1944-08-30)
• Time d-day: 24 hours that saved the world (1944-08-30)

Operation Vestal

• In the Woods: A Novel by Tana French

Origins of World War I

• THE PROUD TOWER, A PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE WAR 1890-1941 by Barbara W Tuchman

Origins of World War II

• On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began. by Leonard, Mosley

Panama invasion

• My American Journey: An Autobiography by Colin L. Powell

Panic of 1792

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Panic of 1873

• Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

Panic of 1893

• Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow

Peninsula Campaign

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1862)

Persian Gulf War

• My American Journey: An Autobiography by Colin L. Powell

Pilgrimage of Grace

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1536)

The Pisonian Conspiracy

• The conspiracy; a novel by John Hersey (65)

plagues

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (Great Plague of London, 1665-1666)

Popish Plot

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1678-1681)

powered flight

• The Wright Brothers by David McCullough (1903-12-17)

Presidency of Abraham Lincoln

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1865)

Prohibition

• Let Me Finish by Roger Angell

Quasi-War

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1800)

The Races at Castlebar

• The Year of The French by Thomas Flanagan

Reconstruction

• Gone With the Wind (Garden City Reprint Edition 1954) by Margaret Mitchell ( 1877)

Reconstruction Era of the United States

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Reformation

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill
• The Reformation: A History of European Civilization from Wyclif to Calvin, 1300-1564 (The Story of Civilization) by Will Durant

Reign of Caligula

• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas (41-01-24)

Reign of Henry II

• Thomas; a novel of the life, passion, and miracles of Becket by Shelley Smith Mydans (1189-07-06)

Reign of Nero

• The conspiracy; a novel by John Hersey (68-06-09)

Reign of Terror

• Paris in the Terror: June 1793 - July 1794 by Stanley Loomis (1794)

Reign of Tiberius Caesar

• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas (37-03-16)

Renaissance

• Renaissance by J. R. Hale
• The Renaissance (The Story of Civilization, Part V) by Will Durant
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Ph.D.

Republican National Convention

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1860)

Romanticism

• The Romantic generation by Charles Rosen

Russian Civil War

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917 ∙ 1921)

Russian Revolution

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (1917)

Second Anglo-Dutch War

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1665-1667)

Second Boer War

• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester (1902-05-31)

Siege of Drogheda

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1649)

Siege of La Rochelle

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1627-1628)

Siege of Yorktown

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (1781)

Solomon Islands Campaign

• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll

Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

• What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era by Peggy Noonan

Spanish Armada

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1588)

Spanish Civil War

• For Whom the bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Spanish-American War

• THE PROUD TOWER, A PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE WAR 1890-1941 by Barbara W Tuchman
• The chief : the life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw (1898)

Stamp Act

• John Adams: Volume 1-1735-1784. Volume 2-1784-1826 by Page Smith

Stuart Restoration

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1660)

Super Bowl I

• When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss (1967)

Super Bowl II

• When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi by David Maraniss (1968)

Surrender at Appomattox

• The Last Full Measure: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) by Jeff Shaara

Tate–LaBianca murders

• Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi (1969-08)

Theory of General Relativity

• Einstein : his life and universe by Walter Isaacson (1916)

Theory of Special Relativity

• Einstein : his life and universe by Walter Isaacson (1905)

Third Anglo-Dutch War

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1672-1674)

Treaty of Dover

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1670)

Treaty of Versailles

• World's end by Upton Sinclair (1919)

United States presidential election

• Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin (1860, 1864)
• The making of the President, 1960 by Theodore Harold White (1960)
• Travels with Charley in Search of America By John Steinbeck by John Steinbeck (1960)
• Double down : game change 2012 by Mark Halperin (2012)

Vietnam War

• Counsel to the President: A Memoir by Clark Clifford
• My American Journey: An Autobiography by Colin L. Powell
• A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power
• The Quiet American by Graham Greene
• The generals : American military command from World War II to today by Thomas E. Ricks (1975-04-30)

Voyage of the Kon-Tiki

• Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl

Voyages of Christopher Columbus

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1492-1504)

War of 1812

• The dawn's early light by Walter Lord (1815)

War of the League of Cambrai

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1508-1516)

War on Terrorism

• The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

Wars of the Roses

• The third part of King Henry VI by William Shakespeare ( 1485)
• The tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare ( 1485)

Wars of the Three Kingdoms

• A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol. 2: The New World by Winston S. Churchill (1639-1653)

Washington Presidency

• John Adams by David G. McCullough

Whisky Rebellion

• Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow ( 1794)

Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

• Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh (1993)

World War I

• Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
• American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 by William Raymond Manchester (1918)
• The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922 by Edmond Taylor (1918)
• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester (1918)
• Patton : a genius for war by Carlo D'Este (1918)
• World's end by Upton Sinclair (1918)

World War II

• Albert Speer : his battle with truth by Gitta Sereny
• The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
• Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer
• The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads by Patrick Modiano
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. [Lawrence] Shirer
• American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 by William Raymond Manchester (1945)
• Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass (1945)
• At dawn we slept : the untold story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange (1945)
• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose (1945)
• The end of the affair by Graham Greene (1945)
• Enigma : the battle for the code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (1945)
• The final solution : a story of detection by Michael Chabon (1945)
• Flags of our fathers by James Bradley (1945)
• Flights of Passage by Samuel Hynes (1945)
• The generals : American military command from World War II to today by Thomas E. Ricks (1945)
• The Italian Navy In World War II by Marc' Antonio Bragadin (1945)
• A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII by Sarah Helm (1945)
• Midway, the battle that doomed Japan; the Japanese Navy's story by Mitsuo Fuchida (1945)
• Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen (1945)
• Patton's Third Army : a daily combat diary by Charles M. Province (1945)
• Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage by Joseph E. Persico (1945)
• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas (1945)
• Der Seekrieg The German Navy's Story 1939-1945 by Friedrich Ruge (1945)
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1945)
• Suite française by Irène Némirovsky (1945)
• Time d-day: 24 hours that saved the world (1945)
• United States destroyer operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe (1945)
• United States submarine operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe (1945)
• Von Ryan's Express by David Westheimer (1945)
• Winston's war : Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings (1945)
• A problem from hell : America and the age of genocide by Samantha Power (1939-1945)

World War II, German Occupation of France

• Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation by Charles Glass (1944)
• A life in secrets : Vera Atkins and the missing agents of WWII by Sarah Helm (1944)
• Suite française by Irène Némirovsky (1944)

World War II, Pacific Theater

• At dawn we slept : the untold story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon W. Prange (1945-09-02)
• Flags of our fathers by James Bradley (1945-09-02)
• Midway, the battle that doomed Japan; the Japanese Navy's story by Mitsuo Fuchida (1945-09-02)
• Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen (1945-09-02)
• Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945 by Evan Thomas (1945-09-02)
• Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1945-09-02)
• United States submarine operations in World War II by Theodore Roscoe (1945-09-02)
• The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942/1944 by Ian W. Toll (1944-12-30)

World War II, Ultra

• Enigma : the battle for the code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore