World War II

Book Reviews

• Paul Addison, Jeremy A. Crang: The Burning Blue
  A New History of the Battle of Britain
• Ruth Andreas-Friedrich: Berlin Diaries
  Berlin Underground, 1938-1945; Battleground Berlin
• Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper: Forgotten Armies
  The Fall of British Asia, 1941-1945
• Antony Beevor, Luba Vinogradova: A Writer at War*
  Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945
• Richard Bessel: Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
  Comparisons and Contrasts
• Bill Bunbury: Rabbits and Spaghetti
  Captives and Comrades: Australians, Italians and the War
• David P. Chandler, et al.: End of Empire*
  100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World
• Hugo Claus: The Sorrow of Belgium**
  - an adolescence in Flanders during World War II
• Lidiya Ginzburg: Blockade Diary
  - life during the siege of Leningrad
• Henry Green: Caught*
  - a 1943 novel of firefighters in the London Blitz
• Leonard Gross: The Last Jews in Berlin
  - the gripping stories of seven Holocaust survivors
• Mark Harrison: The Economics of World War II
  Six Great Powers in International Comparison
• Primo Levi: If Not Now, When?*
  - a novel of Jewish partisans in Russia and Poland in WWII
• Irène Némirovsky: Suite Française
  - a novel of France in 1940-1941
• Richard Overy: The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945
  - strategic air power in the Second World War
• Borislav Pekic: How to Quiet a Vampire**
  - a psychological and philosophical novel of totalitarianism
• Jiri Weil: Mendelssohn is on the Roof
  - a blackly comic tragedy about the Holocaust in Prague
• Osmar White: Conquerors' Road
  An Eyewitness Account of Germany 1945
• Samuel Hideo Yamashita: Leaves from an Autumn of Emergencies*
  Selections from the Wartime Diaries of Ordinary Japanese

See also: World War I | history | war