The Washington Conference, 1921-22:

Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl Harbor

Paperback (320 pages), kindle

The conference that led to limitations in the era when it was still believed that battleships were the epitome of naval power and a sign of a country's strength.

Monte Cassino:

The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II

Paperback (448 pages), kindle

One of the bloodiest Allied struggles against the Axis, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnage and turmoil.

For the Good of the Country:

World War II Baseball in the Major and Minor Leagues

Paperback (380 pages)

Like virtually every other aspect of American life, baseball was affected by WWII. Many of its players left the playing field for the battlefield, but the game continued, played by those who stayed behind, entertaining a nation in desperate need of a diversion and a morale boost in a time of crisis.

Looking Like the Enemy:

My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps

Paperback (240 pages), kindle

At 16, she faced an indefinite sentence behind barbed wire along with her family and 110,000 others of Japanese ancestry and had to struggle for survival and dignity.

In Defense of Internment:

The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror

Hardcover (376 pages), kindle, audiobook

Neither the internment of ethnic Japanese - not to mention ethnic Germans and Italians - nor the relocation and evacuation of Japanese Americans from the West Coast were the result of war hysteria or race prejudice as historians have taught us.

Frauen:

German Women Recall the Third Reich

Paperback (536 pages), kindle

Twenty-nine German women from a wide spectrum of circumstances recall memories of life under the Third Reich.

Dutch Naval Air Force Against Japan:

The Defense of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942

Paperback (217 pages), kindle

Details of the significant yet often overlooked contribution of the Dutch to the Allied effort in the Pacific.

Mother Flies Hurricanes

by E M Singer

Paperback (875 pages)

An historical novel about women pilots who fly during WWII, the central character being the son of one of the British woman ferry pilots.

Fall Gelb 1940:

Army Group A

Paperback (96 pages)

The swiftness of the Case Yellow blitzkrieg conquest of the Low Countries and France has never been surpassed in the history of warfare.

The Greatest Battle:

Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II

Paperback (384 pages), kindle, audiobook

The battle for Moscow was not only the biggest battle of WWII, it was the biggest battle of all time. Yet it is far less known than Stalingrad, which involved about half the number of troops.

The Jet Race and the Second World War

Paperback (224 pages)

Three competing jet programs took place in Britain, Germany, and the US during the war, each with its own challenges of wartime limitations, government interest and strategic need.

Radar Origins Worldwide:

History of Its Evolution in 13 Nations Through World War II

Paperback (420 pages), kindle

Each country working on the development of radar believed that it was its own development and held the technology in highest secrecy.

The Dictators:

Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia

Paperback (928 pages)

Their lethal regimes murdered millions and fought a massive, deadly war. Yet their dictatorships took shape within formal constitutional structures and drew the support of the German and Russian people.

Gandhi the Man:

How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

Paperback (200 pages), kindle, audiobook

An unsuccessful young lawyer becomes the Mahatma, the "“great soul" and leads 400 million Indians in their struggle for independence from the British Empire. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today.

Doctors from Hell:

The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

Paperback (318 pages), kindle

The chilling account of 23 men torturing and killing by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.

Operation Archery

The Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1941

Paperback (80 pages)

The Islands of Vaagso and Maaloy on the Norwegian coast offered the first true combined operation carried out by British forces involving the Army, Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.

Blitz:

The Story of December 29, 1940

Hardcover (448 pages)

Determined to bomb the English into submission, the German Luftwaffe attacked London nearly every night, targeting the heart of the city and the site of some of its greatest landmarks.

Patton's Unsung Armor of the Ardennes:

The Tenth Armored Division's Secret Dash to Bastogne

Paperback (106 pages)

The amazing, historic military accomplishment of Patton's Third Army's 10th Armored Division that secretly roared 75 miles north overnight, flung its tanks in front of the German panzers at besieged Bastogne and saved the day.

Leningrad:

The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944

Paperback (512 pages), kindle

Leningrad was surrounded by German forces and the siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some three quarters of a million Leningraders had died of starvation.

Nuts! The Battle of the Bulge:

The Story and Photographs

Paperback (208 pages)

Hitler was convinced that if the invading Allies were struck a shattering blow, their unity would collapse and he would salvage victory from the jaws of his ineptitude.