Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin, 1945. New York: Viking, 2002. 489 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bernstein, Mark and Alex Lubertozzi. World War II on the Air: Edward R. Murrow and the Broadcasts that Riveted a Nation. Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 2003. 284 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) CD narrated by Dan Rather; Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-270) and index.

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.

Bosworth, R. J. Mussolini. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 584 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [520]-563) and index.

Bunker, John. Heroes in Dungarees: the Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995. 369 p.: ill., maps; bibliographical references (p. 359-360) and index.

Bunker, John. Liberty Ships, the Ugly Ducklings of World War II. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1972. 287 p.

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.

D'Este, Carlo. Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life. New York : Henry Holt, 2002. 848 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm. Note "A John Macrae book." Includes bibliographical references (p. [809]-822) and index. "Chronicles the Allied commander and future president's unlikely rise to power, tracing his impoverished youth as the son of pacifists, his West Point education, sometimes troubled marriage, toil under MacArthur in the Philippines, contributions to the War Department, and involvement in D-Day."

Dew, Stephen Herman. The Queen City at War: Charlotte, North Carolina During World War II 1939-1945. University Press of America, 2001. 336 p. "The Queen City at War reveals a complexity of experience on the Charlotte home front, and it supports much of the current research that exposes the myth behind the 'Good War' concept. The story of Charlotte during World War II is a 'tale of two cities': -- for some, 'it was the best of times,' but for others, 'it was the worst of times.'"

Dickens, Peter. Narvik: Battles in the Fjords. United States Naval Institute Press, 1996. 184 p. Series: Classics of Naval Literature. ISBN 1557507449

Doenecke, Justus D., ed. In Danger Undaunted: the Anti-Interventionist Movement of 1940-1941 as Revealed in the Papers of the America First Committee. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1990. 491 p. ; 24 cm. Series Hoover archival documentaries. Hoover Press publication ; 384. Includes bibliographical references.

Edwards, Bernard. Attack & Sink: The Battle of the Atlantic Summer 1941. January 2002. 226 p. the 21 U-boats of the Markgraf wolf-pack attacked convoy SC42 of 63 merchant vessels sailing from Nova Scotia on September 9, 1941 just before the US entered the war.

Fraser, David. Knight's Cross: a Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. 601 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [568]-571) and index .

Gannon, Michael. Operation Drumbeat: the dramatic true story of Germany's first U-boat attacks along the American coast in World War II. New York : Harper & Row, 1990. 490 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm. Note Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (p. 474-478) and index.

Gehring, Wes D. Carole Lombard: The Hoosier Tornado. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2003. Indiana Biography Series, vol. 1.

Hietala, Thomas R. The Fight of the Century: Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002. 375 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Horten, Gerd. Radio Goes to War: the Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2002. 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm Note Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kershaw, Alex. The Bedford Boys: one American town's ultimate D-Day sacrifice. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003. 274 p., [34] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical footnotes and index.

Mauch, Christof. Shadow War Against Hitler, The: The Covert Operations of America's Wartime Secret Intelligence Service. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 333 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-324) and index; translated from the German by Jeremiah M. Riemer.

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

Rossino, Alexander B. Hitler Strikes Poland : Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2003. 343 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Series: Modern War Studies. Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-335) and index.

Salerno, Reynolds M. Vital Crossroads: Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940. Cornell Univ Press, June 2002. 320 p.

Shachtman, Tom. Terrors and Marvels: How Science and Technology Changed the Character and Outcome of World War II. New York : William Morrow, 2002. 360 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-344) and index.

Snow, Philip. The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 477 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [440]-450) and index.

Wrong, Michela. I Didn't Do It for You : How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. 448 p.