This is a list of the WWII books we own or have come across in our travels. If you’d like us to add a book, please email us at warthroughgenerations AT gmail DOT com. Thanks! (**We are constantly adding to this page**)
Most of these books are listed because World War II or the Holocaust is mentioned in the description. Obviously, we haven’t read all of these, so if you read one and discover that World War II is not a primary or secondary theme, please email us and let us know so we can take it off the list. Thanks!
10 Days: Anne Frank by David Colbert
The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad by Harrison E. Salisbury
1938: Hitler’s Gamble by Giles MacDonogh
1945: A Novel by Robert Conroy
A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
A Blessing of the Moon by Joseph Skibell
A Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War by Chris Bellamy
A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika by Alfons Heck
A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto by Abraham Levin
Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk
A Daughter of Zion by Bodie Thoene
A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva
A Doctor’s Occupation by John Lewis
Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall by Spike Milligan
A Fine of 200 Francs by Elsa Triolet
After Long Silence by Helen Fremont
Aftermath: Martin Bormann and the Fourth Reich by Ladislas Farago
After the Train by Gloria Whelan
After the War by Carol Matas
After the War Was Over by Mark Mazower
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben Macintyre
A History of the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer, Nili Keren
A Holocaust Reader by Lucy Dawidowicz
The Airman’s War: World War II in the Sky by Albert Marrin
Album of the Damned by Paul Garsen
A Letter to My Children From the Edge of the Holocaust by Abraham J. Klausner
Aleutian Sparrow by Karen Hesse
A Light in Zion by Bodie Thoene
All But My Life by Gerda Weissmann Klein
All This Hell: U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese by Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
Aloha Means Come Back: The Story of a World War II Girl by Thomas and Dorothy Hoobler
A Lonely Little War: Life in a Japanese Prison Camp Through the Eyes of a Child by Angus Lorenzen
Altruistic Personality: Rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe by Samuel P. Oliner
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy by Thomas Buergenthal
A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation 1940-44 by Charles Glass
Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II by Evelyn Monahan
An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters From Westerbork by Etty Hillesum
Anna Is Still Here by Ida Vos
The Anne Frank Case: Simon Wiesenthal’s Search for the Truth by Susan Goldman Rubin
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the After Life by Francine Prose
Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pictures by The Anne Frank House
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family by Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold
Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey Into a Family Secret by Steven Luxenberg
An Obsolete Honor: A Story of the German Resistance to Hitler by Helena P. Schrader
A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida
A Place to Hide: True Stories of Holocaust Rescues by Jayne Pettit
The Approaching Storm: One Woman’s Story of Germany 1934-1958 by Nora Waln
A Pure Double Cross by John Knoerle
A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr
Ardennes: The Battle of the Bulge–1944-45 by J. Connell
Arms of Deliverance: A Story of Promise by Tricia Goyer
Arn’s War: Memoirs of a World War II Infantryman, 1940-1946 by Edward C. Arn, Jerome Mushkat
A Scrap of Time and Other Stories by Ida Fink
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
A Small Person Far Away by Judith Kerr
A Special Mission: Hitler’s Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman
The Assault by Harry Mulisch
A Teenager in Hitler’s Death Camps by Benny Grunfeld with Magnus Henrekson and Ollie Hager
A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
Atonement by Ian McEwan
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Auschwitz by Pascal Croci
Auschwitz by Sybille Steinbacher
Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eyewitness Account by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Story by Lucie Adelsberger
Auschwitz: A New History by Laurence Rees
Auschwitz: True Tales From a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Autumn Street by Lois Lowry
The Avengers: A Jewish War Story by Rich Cohen
A Vintage Affair by Isabel Wolff
A Woman’s Place by Lynn Austin
A World Apart by Gustav Herling
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg
A World Away by Stewart O’Nan
Badenheim 1939 by Aharon Appelfeld
Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family, Fatherhood and Vichy France by Carmen Callil
Baker Towers by Jennifer Haigh
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne From Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest by Stephen E. Ambrose
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee
Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
The Battle of Okinawa by George Pfeiffer
Battle of the Bulge: Hitler’s Ardennes Offensive, 1944-45 by Danny Parker
Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor’s Story by Baron Burkard von Mulenheim-Rechberg
Battle: The Story of the Bulge by John Toland
Bearing the Body by Ehud Havazelet
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Ardrzej Szczypiorski
Becoming My Mother’s Daughter by Erika Gottlieb
Behind Enemy Lines: The True Story of a French Jewish Spy in Nazi Germany by Marthe Cohn, Wendy Holden
Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie with Rita Lurie
Berlin Solstice by Sylvia Fraser
Beside a Burning Sea by John Shors
Bestseller! by Jane Daniel
Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 by Marie Vassiltchikov
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941-1945 by Leo Marks
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters by Dick Winters
The Bicycle Runner: A Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance by G. Franco Romagnoli
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
The Bitter Road to Dachau by Robert L. Wise
The Black Hole of Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift by Helena P. Schrader
The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
Blood of Victory by Alan Furst
Bloody Awful by Georgia Evans
Bloody Good by Georgia Evans
Bloody Right by Georgia Evans
The Bloody War, Mate by John Mantle
Blue by Joyce Moyer Hostetter
Blue Night by Cindy McCormick Martinusen
Bomber: Events Relating to the Last Flight of an RAF Bomber Over Germany on the Night of June 31st, 1943 by Len Deighton
Bombs on Aunt Dainty by Judith Kerr
The Book of Ebenezer LePage by G.B. Edwards
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Box From Branau: In Search of My Father’s War by Jan Elvin
Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor by Henry Mazer
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
The Boys Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-45 by Paul Fussell
The Boy Who Dared: A Novel Based on the True Story of a Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank by Ellen Feldman
Brave Men by Ernie Pyle
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
The Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Broken Birds: The Story of My Momila by Jeannette Katzir
Broken Colors by Michele Zackheim
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Anthony Walton
Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends by William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, Edward “Babe” Heffron, Robyn Post
Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie
Burying the Sun by Gloria Whelan
The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Cat With the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin by Susan Goldman Rubin, Ela Weissberger
Chasing the Wind: A Story of British and German Pilots in the Battle of Berlin by Helena P. Schrader
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Matalon Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel
The Children of Freedom by Marc Levy
The Christmas Glass by Marcia Alborghetti
Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War by Patrick J. Buchanan
Ciao Bella by Gina Buonaguro and Janice Kirk
Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army From the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen E. Ambrose
City of Shadows by Ariana Franklin
City of Thieves by David Benioff
Clara’s War: One Girl’s Story of Survival by Clara Kramer
Climbing the Stairs by Padma Venkatraman
The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan
Code Name Nimrod by James Leasor
Code Name ‘Valkyrie’: General Friedrich Olbricht and the Plot Against Hitler by Helena P. Schrader
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans
Consequences by Penelope Lively
Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis De Bernieres
Coventry by Helen Humphreys
The Crisis of German Ideology: Intellectual Origins of the Third Reich by George L. Mosse
Cross Channel Attack — D-Day by Gordon A. Harrison
The Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich
Cross of Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German War Machine, 1918-1945 by John Mosier
Dancing With Eva by Alan Judd
Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas
Danzig Passage by Bodie Thoene
Darkness Falls From the Air by Nigel Balchin
The Darkroom of Damocles by W.F. Hermans
Dark Star by Alan Furst
Dark Voyage by Alan Furst
Davita’s Harp by Chaim Potok
Dawn by Elie Wiesel
Dawn of Fear by Susan Cooper
Dawn of a Thousand Nights: A Story of Honor by Tricia Goyer
Day by Elie Wiesel
Day After Night by Anita Diamant
The Deadwood Beetle by Mylene Dressler
Dear America: One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss by Barry Denenberg
Death’s Head by Campbell Black
Debs at War: 1939-1945 by Anne De Courcy
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama Tec
Defying Hitler: A Memoir by Sebastian Haffner
The Devil in Vienna by Doris Orgel
The Devil’s Alchemists by A.R. Homer
The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Devil’s Workshop: A Memoir of the Nazi Counterfeiting Operation by Adolf Burger
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing Up in the Warsaw Ghetto by Mary Berg
The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941-1942 by Petr Ginz, Chava Pressburger (ed.)
Dieppe: Canada’s Darkest Day of World War II by Hugh Brewster
The Diplomat’s Wife by Pam Jenoff
Disguise by Hugo Hamilton
Doctors From Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans by Vivien Spitz
Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic by Paul Fussell
Don’t Talk To Me About The War by David A. Adler
Doreen by Barbara Noble
Down the Coaltown Road by Sheldon Currie
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Richard H. Minear, Dr. Seuss
Dunkirk Crescendo by Bodie Thoene
Dutch Treat by Tristan Jones
Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 by Barry Denenberg
Eastern Approaches by Fitzroy MacLean
The Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice
Edith’s Story: The True Story of a Young Girl’s Courage and Survival During World War II by Edith Velmans
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
Eleanor’s Story by Eleanor Ramrath Garner
The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig
The Eleventh Man: Memories of the German Death March, Winter 1945 by Robert H. Honeycutt
Elijah Visible by Thane Rosenbaum
Elli: Coming of Age in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Emil and Karl by Yankev Glatshteyn
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia by Esther Hautzig
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Enigma by Robert Harris
Enigma: The Battle for the Code by Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
The Entertainer and the Dybbuk by Sid Fleischman
Escape From the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew by Alex Kershaw
Ester and Ruzya: How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler’s War and Stalin’s Peace by Masha Gessen
Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Eve’s Cousin by Sibylle Knauss
Evidence Not Seen: A Woman’s Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II by Darlene Deibler Rose
Eyewitness Auschwitz: Three Years in the Gas Chambers by Filip Muller
Fair Stood the Wind for France by H.E. Bates
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
Farthing by Jo Walton
Fascism and the Right in Europe 1919-1945 by Martin Blinkhorn
Fatelessness by Imre Kertesz
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz by Jan Gross
The Few: The American ‘Knights of the Air’ Who Risked Everything to Save Britain in the Summer of 1940 by Alex Kershaw
Few Eggs and No Oranges: Vere Hodgson’s Diary, 1940-45 by Vere Hodgson and Jenny Hartley
Fiet’s Vase by Alison Leslie Gold
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
Fire in the Hills by Donna Jo Napoli
Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz by Olga Lengyel
Flight From the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946 by Deborah Dwork
Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator by Samuel Hynes
Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith
The Foreign Correspondent by Alan Furst
Forever Yours by MJ Smith
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation by Lukas and Norman Davies
Four Freedoms by John Crowley
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story by Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by Jon Meacham
Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich by Alison Owings
French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial by Serge Klasrfeld
From Dust and Ashes: A Story of Liberation by Tricia Goyer
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
From the Holocaust to Hogan’s Heroes by Robert Clary
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
The Gates of Zion by Bodie Thoene
General Eisenhower’s Report on Operation Torch: WWII in North Africa by Dwight Eisenhower
German Occupation of Jersey: A Diary of Events From June 1940 to June 1945 by L.P. Sinel
The German Woman by Paul Griner
Gertruda’s Oath: A Child, a Promise and a Heroic Escape During World War II by Ram Oren
The Gestapo: A History of Horror by Jacques Delarue
Get Rommel by Michael Asher
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Gilgamesh by Joan London
Girl With the White Flag by Tomiko Higa
The Golems of Gotham by Thane Rosenbaum
The Golden Willow: The Story of a Lifetime of Love by Harry Bernstein
Going Solo by Roald Dahl
Gone to Soliders by Marge Piercy
Good Evening, Mrs. Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes
The Good German by Joseph Kanon
Goodnight, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World by Kati Marton
Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw
The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell
The Great World by David Malouf
Greece: The Struggle for Freedom 1940-1949 by Stephanos Zotos
The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
Guernica by Dave Boling
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary An Shaffer, Annie Barrows
The Guests of War Trilogy by Kit Pearson
Gypsy Tears: Loving a Holocaust Survivor by Cora Schwartz
Half a Crown by Jo Walton
Ha’penny by Jo Walton
The Happy Warrior: The Life Story of Sir Winston Churchill, As Told Through Great Britain’s Eagle Comic of the 1950s by Clifford Makins
Hart’s War by John Katzenbach
Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach
The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
The Hellish Vortex: Between Breakfast and Dinner by Richard M. Baughn
Hello, America: A Refugee’s Journey From Auschwitz to the New World by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Heroes by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee (illus.)
He Was My Chief: The Memoirs of Adolf Hitler’s Secretary by Christa Schroeder
Hide and Seek by Ida Vos
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Incredible True Story of a German-Jewish Teenager’s Struggle to Survive in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Betty Lauer
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Hitler by Albert Marrin
Hitler and Mars Bars by Dianne Ascroft
The Hitler Myth: Image and Reality in the Third Reich by Ian Kershaw
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw
Hitler’s Canary by Sandi Toksvig
Hitler’s Daughter by Jackie French
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower
Hitler’s Gift: The Story of Theresienstadt by George E. Berkley
Hitler’s Mountain: The Fuhrer, the Obersalzberg and the American Occupation of Berchtesgaden by Arthur Mitchell
Hitler’s Private Library by Timothy W. Rybeck
Hitler’s Professors by Max Weinreich
Hitler’s Rise to Power: The Nazi Movement in Bavaria, 1923-1933 by Geoffrey Pridham
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Hitler Youth by Michael H. Kater
Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Hitler Youth: Origins and Development 1922-1945 by H.W. Koch
The Holocaust Chronicle: A History in Words and Pictures by John Roth Ph.D.
The Holocaust in History by Michael R. Marrus
The Holocaust Kid by Sonia Pilcer
The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation by Donald Niewyk (ed.)
Home Again at Last by Jerry Borrowman
Home Away From Home: The Yanks in Ireland by Mary Pat Kelly
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
Homefront by Doris Gwaltney
Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II by Laurence Rees
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Hours After: Letters of Love and Longing in War’s Aftermath by Gerda Weissmann Klein
The House on Garibaldi Street by Isser Harel
The House on Q Street by Ann L. McLaughlin
How to Cook a Wolf by M.F.K. Fisher
Hunger by Elise Blackwell
Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb
I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust by Inge Auerbacher
I Cannot Forgive by Rudolf Vrba
The Ice Soldier by Paul Watkins
I Escaped From Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba
If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan
If This Is a Man by Primo Levi
I Had Seen Castles by Cynthia Rylant
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton-Jackson
The Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization: 4,000 Years of Jewish History by Josephine Baker and Martin Gilbert
I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova
In My Enemy’s House by Carol Matas
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Cut Opdyke
In Our Strange Gardens by Michael Quint
Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 by Mark Mazower
Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs by Albert Speer
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience by Gitta Sereny
The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington by Jennet Conant
Irretrievably Broken by Irma Fritz
Isaac’s Torah by Angel Wagenstein
Island Madness by Tim Binding
I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin by Stephens Gerard Malone
The i Tetralogy by Mathias B. Freese
It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust by Elizabeth Bettina
Itsuka by Joy Kogawa
I Was a Doctor in Auschwitz by Dr. Gisella Perl
I Was Hitler’s Chauffer: The Memoirs of Erich Kempka by Erich Kempka
Jacob’s Courage: A Holocaust Love Story by Charles S. Weinblatt
Jacob’s Rescue by Malka Drucker
Jehovah’s Witness and the Third Reich: Sectarian Politics Under Persecution by M. James Penton
Jersey Occupation Diary: Her Story of the German Occupation, 1940-45 by Nan Le Ruez
Jerusalem Interlude by Bodie Thoene
The Jewish Husband by Lia Levi
Jewish Stories From Heaven and Earth: Inspiring Tales to Nourish the Heart and Soul by Dov Peretz Elkins
The Jews of the Channel Islands and The Rule of Law: 1940-1945 by Sir David Fraser
Jimmy’s Stars by Mary Ann Rodman
Josef Jaeger by Jere’ M. Fishback
The Journal of Helene Berr by Helene Berr
The Journey by H.G. Adler
The Journey by Ida Fink
Journey to Topaz by Yochiko Uchida
Justice in Jerusalem by Gideon Hausner
Kaddish for an Unborn Child by Imre Kertesz
Kahn & Engelmann by Hans Eichner
Kasserine Pass 1943: Rommel’s Last Victory by Steven Zaloga
Keeping Hannah Waiting by Dave Clarke
Keep Smiling Through by Ann Rinaldi
The Key Is Lost by Ida Vos
The Key to Zion by Bodie Thoene
Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
The King’s Rifle by Biyi Bandele
Klaus Barbie: The Shocking Story of How the U.S. Used This Nazi War Criminal as an Intelligence Agency by Erhard Dabringhaus
The Kommandant’s Girl by Pam Jenoff
The Lady in the Spitfire by Helena P. Schrader
La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger
The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester
The Last of the Just by Andre Schwarz-Bart
The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of America’s First Mountain Soldiers and the Assault on Hitler’s Europe by Mckay Jenkins
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour by James P. Hornfischer
The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau by Timothy W. Ryback
The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the Birth of the Pax Americana by Peter Clarke
Leeway Cottage by Beth Gutcheon
Left to Die: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau by Dan Kurzman
Leningrad: State of Siege by Michael Jones
Leningrad Under Siege: First-Hand Accounts of the Ordeal by Daniil Alexandrovich
Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip Hallie
Letters & Papers From Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Letters to My Father by William Styron
Liberation by Joanna Scott
The Lieutenant’s Lover by Harry Bingham
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler by James Cross Giblin
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim, Ronald Himler (illus.)
Lily’s Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff
Liquidation by Imre Kertesz
Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski
The Little Riders by Margaretha Shemin, Peter Spier
Lives of Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers: Untold Stories of Men of Jewish Descent Who Fought for the Third Reich by Bryan Mark Rigg
Lizzi & Fredl: A Perilous Journey of Love and Faith by Dr. William B. Stanford
London Refrain by Bodie Thoene
The Longest Night: Voices from the London Blitz by Gavin Mortimer
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn
Love and Sand by Howard M. Layton
Love You, Soldier by Amy Hest
Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial by Richard J. Evans
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
The Magic of Ordinary Days by Ann Howard Creel
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Mare’s War by Tanita S. Davis
Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation by Robert Gildea
The Mascot: Unraveling the Mystery of My Jewish Father’s Nazi Boyhood by Mark Kurzem
Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes
Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History by Art Spiegelman
Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
Meeting the Fox: The Allied Invasion of Africa, From Operation Torch to Kasserine Pass to Victory in Tunisia by Orr Kelly
Mein Kampf by Adolph Hitler
Memory by Philippe Grimbert
Mengele: The Angel of Death in South America by Jorge Camarasa
Mengele: The Complete Story by Gerald L. Posner
The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt: War Through a Woman’s Eyes, 1939-1940 by Rulka Langer
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Miriam’s Kitchen: A Memoir by Elizabeth Ehrlich
The Mirror of Diana by A.R. Homer
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany by Ilse Koehn
The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule, 1940-45 by Madeleine Bunting
Monty: His Part in My Victory by Spike Milligan
The Moon Looked Down by Dorothy Garlock
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War by Rodric Braithwaite
Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past by Fran Schumer Chapman
Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics by Claudia Koonz
Munich Signature by Bodie Thoene
The Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Memoirs by Simon Wiesenthal
The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
The Musicians of Auschwitz by Fania Fenelon
Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall by Spike Milligan
My Bridges of Hope: Searching for Life and Love After Auschwitz by Livia Bitton-Jackson
My Enemy’s Cradle by Sara Young
My Lucky Star by Zdenka Fantlova
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York, 1941 by Mary Pope Osbourne
My Secret War Diary by Flossie Albright: My History of The Second World War, 1939-1945 by Marcia Williams
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Nazi Conscience by Claudia Koonz
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide by Robert Jay Lifton
Nazi Hunter: The Wiesenthal File by Alan Levy
The Nazi Occupation of Crete: 1941-1945 by G.C. Kiriakopoulos
The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust by Edith H. Beer, Susan Dworkin
The Nazis: A Warning From History by Laurence Rees
The Nazis and the Occult: The Dark Forces Unleashed by the Third Reich by Paul Roland
The Nazi’s Revolution: Hitler’s Dictatorship and the German Nation by Allan Mitchell
The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1930-1935 by William Sheridan Allen
Nazi Terror: The Gestapo, Jews, and Ordinary Germans by Eric A. Johnson
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland by Jan T. Gross
Nella Last’s Peace: The Postwar Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson (ed.)
Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming (ed.)
Nesarim: Child Survivors of Terezin by Thelma Gruenbaum
Nick of Time by Ted Bell
Night by Elie Wiesel
Night of Flames by Douglas W. Jacobson
Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama
Night Soldiers by Alan Furst
Night Song: A Story of Sacrifice by Tricia Goyer
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War by Anita Lobel
North of Tomorrow by Cindy McCormick Martinusen
Notes From the Warsaw Ghetto by Emmanuel Ringelblum
Nothing Makes You Free: Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Not the Germans Alone: A Son’s Search for the Truth of Vichy by Isaac Levendel and Robert O. Paxton
Now Silence: A Novel of World War II by Toni Warner Shepard
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Nuremberg Diary by G.M. Gilbert
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Obsessed by Ted Dekker
Occupation by John Toland
Occupation: The Ordeal of France 1940-1944 by Ian Ousby
Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen by Bob Greene
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downs
One Thousand Tracings: Healing the Wounds of World War II by Lita Judge
On Hitler’s Mountain: Overcoming the Legacy of a Nazi Childhood by Irmgard A. Hunt
On Pain of Death by Jan Rehner
On the Other Side: Letters to My Children From Germany 1940-46 by Mathilda Wolff-Monckeberg
On the Wings of Heroes by Richard Peck
The Ordeal of Hermitage: The Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1944 by S.P. Varshavskii
The Ordeal of Total War: 1939-1945 by Gordon Wright
The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS by Heinz Zollin Hohne
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
The Other Half of Life by Kim Ablon Whitney
The Other Way Round by Judith Kerr
Our Longest Days: A People’s History of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing
Out of the Hitler Time by Judith Kerr
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books by Aaron Lansky
Overlord: D-Day and the Invasion of Europe by Albert Marrin
The Pages in Between: A Holocaust Legacy of Two Families, One Home by Erin Einhorn
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
Panzer Commander: The Memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck by Hans von Luck
Parachutes and Petticoats edited by Leigh Verrill-Rhys and Deirdre Beddoe
Paris Encore by Bodie Thoene
The Parnas: A Scene From the Holocaust by Silvano Arieti
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
Pearl Harbor Is Burning! by Kathleen Kudlinski
The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945 by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee
Picture Bride by Yoshiko Uchida
Pictures at an Exhibition by Sara Houghteling
Piercing the Reich: The Penetration of Nazi Germany by American Secret Agents During World War II by Joseph E. Persico
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Poets of World War II by Harvey Shapiro (ed.)
The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
The Polski Affair by Leon H. Gildin
Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander’s Account of a Mass Murder by Kazimierz Sakowicz
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Prague Counterpoint by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Proudly We Served: The Men of the USS Mason by Mary Pat Kelly
The Puzzle King by Betsy Carter
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas
The Reawakening by Primo Levi
Red Gold by Alan Furst
Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler by Anne Nelson
Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life by Sofka Zinovieff
Red Rain by Tim Wendel
Refuge in Hell: How Berlin’s Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis by Daniel B. Silver
Release by Nicole Hadaway
The Remains of the Day by Kauzo Ishiguro
Remembering Pearl Harbor: Eyewitness Accounts by U.S. Military Men and Women by Robert S. La Forte and Ronald E. Marcello (ed.)
Rena’s Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz by Rena Kornreich Gelissen, Heather Dune Macadam
Rescuing Da Vinci by Robert M. Edsel
Resistance by Anita Shreve
Resistance by Owen Sheers
Resistance: A Frenchwoman’s Journal of the War by Agnes Humbert
Resistance of the Heart by Nathan Stoltzfus
Restless by William Boyd
Return From the River Kwai: True Stories of Japanese Prisoners of War by Joan & Clay Blair
Return to Auschwitz by Kitty Hart
The Return to Zion by Bodie Thoene
Rise and Fall of the Nazis by Claire Welch
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
Rising ‘44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
The Rising Tide by Jeff Shaara
The Road to Rescue: The Untold Story of Schindler’s List by Mietek Pemper and David Dollenmayer
Rommel? Gunner Who?: A Confrontation in the Desert by Spike Milligan
Roosevelt’s Secret War by Joseph Persico
Rue Ordener Rue Labat by Sarah Kofman
Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice From the Holocaust by Time Magazine, Yad Vashem, and Kelly Knauer (ed.)
Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Safe Passage by Ida Cook
Sala’s Gift: My Mother’s Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner
Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Saving What Remains: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey to Reclaim Her Ancestry by Livia Bitton-Jackson
Scheisshaus Luck: Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora by Pierre Berg, Brian Brock
Schindler’s Ark (Schindler’s List) by Thomas Keneally
Seal Woman by Solveig Eggerz
The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival by Sara Tuvel Bernstein, Louise Loots Thornton, Marlene Bernstein Samuels
Second Hand Smoke by Thane Rosenbaum
The Second World War in Color by Stewart and Adrian Wood
The Second World War, Volume 1: The Gathering Storm by Winston S. Churchill
The Second World War, Volume 2: Their Finest Hour by Winston S. Churchill
The Second World War, Volume 3: The Grand Alliance by Winston S. Churchill
The Second World War, Volume 4: The Hinge of Fate by Winston S. Churchill
The Second World War, Volume 5: Closing the Ring by Winston S. Churchill
The Secret Armies: Spies, Counterspies, and Saboteurs in World War II by Albert Marrin
The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister by Nonna Bannister, Denise George, Carolyn Tomlin
The Secret Road Home by Robert L. Wise
Secret Soldiers: The Story of World War II’s Heroic Army of Deception by Philip Gerard
Selling Hitler by Robert Harris
The Sentinels: Fortunes of War by Gordon Zuckerman
The Seventh Well by Fred Wander
Shadows in the Jungle: The Alamo Scouts Behind Japanese Lines in World War II by Larry Alexander
The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
Shelter Me by Alex McAulay
Ship of Fools by Katherine Anne Porter
Shooting an Albatross by Steven R. Lundin
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
The Siege of Leningrad: 900 Days of Terror by David Glantz
Silence Not: a love story by Cynthia L. Cooper
Silesian Station by David Downing
The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
Since You Went Away: World War II Letters From American Women on the Home Front by Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. Smith
Sins of the Innocent by Mireille Marokvia
Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS by Elizabeth Mcintosh
Sisters in Arms: British & American Women Pilots During World War II by Helena P. Schrader
Sisters in the Resistance by Margaret Collins Weitz
Six Million Paper Clips: The Making of a Children’s Holocaust Memorial by Peter W. Schroeder, Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand
The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
Sky: A True Story of Courage During World War II by Hanneke Ippisch
The Sky Rained Heroes: A Journey From War to Remembrance by Frederick E. LaCroix
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust by Barbara Rogasky
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
The Sob’s of Autumn’s Violins by A.R. Homer
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot by Bruce and Andrea Leininger with Ken Gross
Spies by Michael Frayn
The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
The Splendor of Silence by Indu Sundaresan
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege 1942-1943 by Anthony Beevor
Stalin: Russia’s Man of Steel by Albert Marrin
Stalin’s Own Children by Owen Matthews
The Steel Wave by Jeff Shaara
Stepping on the Cracks by Mary Downing Hahn
Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi
Stones in Water by Donna Jo Napoli
Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence by Marc Bloch
Strangers in the Land of Egypt by Stephen March
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness by Simon Wiesenthal
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren
Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust by Allan Zullo
The Swiss Courier by Tricia Goyer and Mike Yorkey
T4 by Ann Clare LeZotte
Taking Wing by Nancy Graff
Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas
Tamar by Mal Peet
Tatiana & Alexander by Paullina Simons
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth Norman
Ten Cents A Dance by Christine Fletcher
The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich by Saul S. Friedman (ed.)
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting
Then by Morris Gleitzman
Theresienstadt: The Town the Nazis Gave to the Jews by Vera Schiff
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945 by Milton Mayer
The Thin Red Line by James Jones
The Third Reich: A New History by Dr. Michael Burleigh
The Third Reich at War by Richard J. Evans
The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939 by Richard J. Evans
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo by Ted W. Lawson
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty by Michael Karpin
To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy
To Kill the Devil: Attempts on the Life of Adolf Hitler by Herbert Molloy Mason Jr.
To See You Again by Betty Schimmel with Joyce Gabriel
To Siberia by Per Petterson
The Town Beyond the Wall by Elie Wiesel
Traces: Stories by Ida Fink
The Train by Georges Simenon
The True Story of Hansel & Gretel by Louise Murphy
Turbulence by Giles Foden
Turvey by Earle Birney
Under an English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe
The Unknown Hitler: Notes From the Young Nazi Party by Putzi Hanfstaengl
The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
Valkyrie: An Insider’s Account of the Plot to Kill Hitler by Hans Bernd Gisevius
The Vanished Kingdom: Travels Through the History of Prussia by James Charles Roy
Victory in the Pacific by Albert Marrin
Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Visas for Life by Yukiko Sugihara
The Visible World by Mark Slouka
The Wall by John Hersey
Wandering Star by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clizio
The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
War Games by Audrey & Akila Couloumbis
War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
War on the Margins by Libby Cone
Warsaw Requiem by Bodie Thoene
Wartime Lies by Louis Begley
War Without Friends by Evert Hartman
The Wave by Todd Strasser
We Are on Our Own by Miriam Katin
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell
We Are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin by Kurt Jiri Kotouc
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth M. Norman
Weedflower by Cynthia Kadohata
We’ll Eat Again: A Collection of Recipes From the War Years by Marguerite Patten
The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy? (Women in World War II) by Mavis Nicholson
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka
When Light Pierced the Darkness: Christian Rescue of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Nechama Tec
Where Birds Never Sing: The True Story of the 92nd Signal Battalion and the Liberation of Dachau by Jack Sacco
Whistle by James Jones
Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive From the Warsaw Ghetto by Samuel D. Kassow
Willow Run by Patricia Reilly Giff
The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
Winter in Madrid by C.J. Sansom
Winter Passing by Cindy McCormick Martinusen
With Hitler to the End: From the Wolf’s Lair to the Berlin Bunker by Heinz Linge
With the Old Breed: At Peleiu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
Witnesses of War: Children’s Lives Under the Nazis by Nicholas Stargardt
The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America’s Greatest Female Spy by Judith L. Pearson
Woman of Letters: Irene Nemirovsky and Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, Olivier Corpet, and Garrett White
Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front by Ellen Hampton
The World at Night by Alan Furst
World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Laurence Rees
World War II Heroes of Southern Delaware by James Diehl
World War II: The Rest of the Story and How It Affects You Today, 1930 to September 11, 2001 by Richard J. Maybury
The Women Who Lived for Danger by Marcus Binney
Writing the Siege of Leningrad: Women’s Diaries, Memoirs and Documentary Prose by Cynthia Simmons and Nina Perlina
Written on the Knee: A Diary From the Greek-Italian Front of WWII by Helen Electrie Lindsay
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945 by Saul Friedlander
Your Name is Renee: Ruth Kapp Hartz’s Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France by Stacy Cretzmeyer, Beate Klarsfeld
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
Zoo Station by David Downing
**There also is a pretty comprehensive list of books (mostly military) here.**
