Bix, Herbert P. Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan. New York : HarperCollins, 2000. 800 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 689-770) and index.

Black, Edwin. IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. New York: Crown, 2001. 519 p.

Blumenson, Martin. Patton, the Man behind the Legend, 1885-1945. New York: Morrow, 1985. 320 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Note Maps on lining papers Includes index Bibliography: p. 310.

Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: a New History. New York : Hill and Wang, 2000. 965 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [922]-938) and index. Burleigh is a professor of history at Washington and Lee University who wrote Death and Deliverance (1994). "While the basic structure utilized here is narrative history, Burleigh consistently enriches his narrative with passionate and moving examples of the price paid by ordinary people caught up in the ravages of totalitarianism. He avoids the trap of viewing the Nazi revolution as an "aberration" or "distortion." Rather, Burleigh places the Third Reich within the broader context of the spiritual and moral crisis that plagued Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. It was that spiritual void and sense of moral chaos that made totalitarian movements, with their pseudo-religions and claims to moral certainty, so appealing to many among the European elites."

Cameron, Craig M. American Samurai: Myth, Imagination, and the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division, 1941-1951. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 297 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p. 273-284) and index. examines critically the public relations image of the marines as expressed in pictures, posters, ideals, myths, the Iwo Jima statue dedicated 1954.

Campbell, Rodney. The Luciano Project: the Secret Wartime Collaboration of the Mafia and the U.S. Navy. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1977. 299 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes index and Bibliography: p. [291]-293.

Carroll, Peter N. The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994. 440 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. [385]-429) and index. is the standard account of the Lincoln Brigade of 2800 American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War from January 1937 to October 1938 against Franco, with high casualties and 1/3 dead.

Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park: a Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science that Changed the Course of World War II. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002. 330 p., [16] p, of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-309) and index. is about utilities magnate Alfred Lee Loomis and the private research laboratory he established in 1928 at Tuxedo Park NY that attracted scientists such as Einstein, Bohr and Fermi, contributing important work on radar and the atomic bomb.

Cornwell, John. Hitler's Pope: the Secret History of Pius XII. New York : Viking, 1999. 430 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-417) and index.

Gilbert, Martin. Churchill: a Life. London: Heinemann, 1991. 1066 p. : ill.,maps ; 24 cm. Note Includes index. Gilbert has advised President Bush in August 2002 in preparation for war with Iraq regarding Churchill and appeasement in WWII.

Goldhagen, Daniel J. Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 622 pp. argues the thesis that most 'ordinary Germans' shared a long-standing anti-semitism in Germany and contributed to the Holocaust, but neglects the key role of the modern mass media in spreading Nazi propaganda, and the important pressures applied by the SA and the SS.

Hart, Parker T. Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership. Indiana University Press, 1999. 320 p., the Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Series, is not a formal history of ARAMCO but a good account of Arab-U.S. diplomacy from the perspective of an experienced diplomat who began as vice-consul in Dhahran in 1944.

Harwit, Martin. An Exhibit Denied: Lobbying the History of Enola Gay. New York: Copernicus, 1996. 477 p.: ill.; bibliographical references (p. 435-468) and index.

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. How They Won the War in the Pacific; Nimitz and his Admirals. New York: Weybright and Talley, 1970. 554 p. illus., maps, ports. 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references.

Kahn, David. Seizing the Enigma: the Race to Break the German U-boat Codes, 1939-1943. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1991. 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-326) and index.

Kahn, David. The Codebreakers: the Story of Secret Writing. New York: Macmillan, 1967, revised edition 1996 by Scribner. 1164 p. illus., facsims., ports. 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lewis, Adrian R. Omaha Beach, a Flawed Victory. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 381 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-367) and index. Retired U.S. Army Major Lewis, assistant professor of history at the University of North Texas, argues that the real responsibility for the costly hybrid amphibious landing at Omaha Beach was a flawed strategy at the highest levels that failed to learn the lessons from Pacific and Mediterranean landings.

Maslowski, Peter. Armed with Cameras: the American Military Photographers of World War II. New York: Free Press, 1993. 412 p.: ill., map; bibliographical references (p. 377-391) and index.

McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: the Women of the OSS. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1998. 282 p., [22] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-271) and index

Miller, Edward S. War Plan Orange: the U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1991. 509 p. , incl 16p of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-475) and index.

Murray, Williamson and Allan R. Millett. A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War, 1937-1945. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000. 656 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 613-637) and index. is "based upon the most up-to-date military history research and scholarship," much of which "has dramatically revised the original assessments that came out soon after the war ended," It is "a comprehensive reassessment of the entire military history of World War II, one that synthesizes decades of recent scholarship on strategy, policy, diplomacy, and military leadership as well as operations per se."

Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 687 p.

Potter, Elmer B. Nimitz. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1976. 507 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm Note Includes index Bibliography: p. 474-481.

Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers; the Forging of an Air Navy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. 498 p. illus., maps, ports. 23 cm. Note "Bibliographic essay": p. 417-436.

Seidel, Michael. Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1988. 260 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.

Troy, Thomas F. Wild Bill and Intrepid: Donovan, Stephenson, and the Origin of CIA. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 259 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p. 243-252) and index. argues that the role of the British in the CIA`s formation was much more important than has been believed, using interviews with key players and secret documents from American and British archives, explains the collaboration between Donovan, the CIA`s first chief, and Stephenson, director of British intelligence in the U.S. during World War II.

Weigley, Russell F. Eisenhower's Lieutenants: the Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981. 800 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.