10 Must Have Books on WW2

[Procrustes]

ORIGINAL: JSS

Rise & Fall of the Third Reich is near the top of my must have WW2 books.... von Mellenthin's Panzer Battles too

I'll second that - "Rise and Fall" is by William Shire - essential.

Heinz Guderian wrote a memoir called "Panzer Leader" - IIRC.

Albert Speer wrote "Inside the Third Reich" - weirdly fascinating.

[Ironclad]

An excellent book is "Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe and Hitler's Defeat in the East 1942-1943" by Joel Hayward.

[Rune Iversen]

The US Army "Green Books"

[BlackSunshine]

Just a reminder.
 
Book 2 of the liberation trilogy is out 10/2.
 
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy
 
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?delay=y&PV=y&ISBN=0805062890&z=y

[Neilster]

The Times Atlas of the Second World War is awesome. It's out of print but I picked up a copy on Ebay. Quality maps, tables, charts, write-ups etc on everything you could imagine.

Cheers, Neilster

[Jeffrey H.]

Jablonski's 'Airwar' duo ?

[jchastain]

ORIGINAL: JSS

Rise & Fall of the Third Reich is near the top of my must have WW2 books....   von Mellenthin's Panzer Battles too

I was shocked to see this one didn't get mentioned until the third page. It isn't a light read by any stretch of the imagination, but there is no more authoritative source in my mind. I've read it front to back twice and I still learn things every time I pick it up.

There is no better spent $16.50 for someone who wants to know has the mental stamina to absorb this book.

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[HansBolter]

1. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Wiliam Shirer

2. Lost Victories by Eric von Manstein

3. Michael Wittman and the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in WWII in two volumes by Patrick Agte

4. The History of the 12th SS Hiterjungend Panzer Division in two volumes by Hubert Meyer

5. The Devil's Adjutant: Jochen Peiper by Michael Reynolds

6. Steel Inferno by Michael Reynolds

7. Men of Steel by Michael Reynolds

8. Sons of the Reich by Michael Reynolds

9. Panzer Commander by Hans von Luck

10. The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan

11. A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan

12. Panzer Aces One & Two by Franz Kurowski

13. Infantry Aces by Franz Kurowski

14. Panzer Battles of the Waffen SS 1943-45 by Will Fey

15. The Rising Sun by John Toland

16. The last Hundred Days by John Toland

17. Grenadiers by Kurt Meyer

18. Tigers in the Mud by Otto Carius

19. Neither Hope nor Fear by von Senger und Etterlin

20. Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin by Cornelius Ryan

21. Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

22. War as I Knew It by George S. Patton Jr.

23. Hitler Moves East by Paul Carel

24. Scorched Earth by Paul Carel

25. An Army at Dawn: The Campaign in North Africa 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson