Operation Barbarossa : strategy and tactics on the Eastern front, 1941 / by Fugate, Bryan I., 1943-

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World War II : early battles by Hamilton, John, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Path to War -- Invasion of Poland -- The fall of France -- The air battle of Britain -- Operation Barbarossa -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- The empire of Japan -- Attack of Pearl Harbor -- Japanese Victories.…”


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Timeline of World War II. Europe and North Africa by Samuels, Charlie, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Causes of the war -- Blitzkrieg -- Battle for Britain -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- Operation Barbarossa -- North Africa -- Sicily and Italy -- Stalingrad -- D-Day : Operation Overlord -- The fall of Germany -- Glossary.…”


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Hitler's armies : a history of the German war machine, 1939-45 by McNab, Chris, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…A phoenix from the ashes -- Blitzkrieg : Hitler's war machine unleashed, 1939-40 -- North Africa and the Balkans, 1940-43 -- Operation Barbarossa and the War in the East, 1941-43 -- Italy and the Western Front, 1943-44 -- The final defeats : retreat to the Fatherland, 1943-45.…”


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Guts & glory : World War II by Thompson, Ben, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Eight hunderd heros -- Blitzkrieg -- Their finest hour -- Operation Barbarossa -- Day of infamy -- Who dares, wins -- Dauntless -- Stalingrad -- Semper Fi -- Fighting with tigers -- Sobibor -- Voytek the soldier bear -- The mighty eighth -- The white mouse -- D-Day -- Gurkha assult -- Last stand for Leyte -- The battle of the bulge -- The fall of Berlin -- Typhoon of steel.…”


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Hitler : downfall, 1939-1945 by Ullrich, Volker, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- Strategic stalemate -- Operation Barbarossa -- The War Turns, 1941-1942 -- The road to the Holocaust -- Stalingrad and the battle for oil -- Total War and ethnic-Popular Community -- On the defensive -- Operations Overlord and Bagration -- The Berghof during the War -- The Stauffenberg assassination attempt and its aftermath -- Final rally -- Decline of a dictator -- Staged exit -- The final days in the bunker -- Hitler's Place in History.…”


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World War II battles and leaders

Table of Contents: “…Unstoppable rush to war -- World War II chronology -- Theater of war 1939-45 -- 1939-40: nations smashed in lightning war: Invasion of Poland ; Battle of the Atlantic ; Invasion of Finland ; Fall of Denmark, Norway ; Blitzkrieg, Low Countries ; Dunkirk, Fall of France ; Battle of Britain, the Blitz ; Ethiopia, Western Desert -- 1941: America enters on the Allied side: Rommel's Libyan campaign ; Fall of Yugoslavia, Greece, Crete ; Operation Barbarossa ; Battle of Moscow ; Pearl Harbor ; Burma Campaign -- 1942: on the road to victory: Singapore and the Philippines ; Doolittle raid ; Battle of the Coral Sea ; Battle of Midway ; Siege of Stalingrad ; Strategic bombing of Europe ; Battle of Guadalcanal ; El Alamein ; Operation Torch ; Kasserine Pass -- 1943: rolling back the Axis powers: Battle of the Bismarck Sea ; Invasion of Sicily ; Battle of Kursk ; Salerno ; Tarawa -- 1944: D-Day, Leyte, and liberation: Anzio and Cassino ; Allied invasion of Normandy ; Operation Bagration ; Conquest of Saipan ; Liberation of France ; Leyte Gulf, the Philippines ; Battle of the Bulge -- 1945: the final struggle: a year of victory: Soviet drive on Berlin ; Iwo Jima, Okinawa ; Allies cross the Rhine ; Atomic bombing of Japan -- More Allied and Axis leaders.…”


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The story of the Second World War by Dowswell, Paul

Table of Contents: “…THE WORLD AT WAR : A map of the war / BUILDING A BONFIRE : The world the war created -- A new breed of tyranny -- Between the wars -- Inside Hitler's Germany -- Steps to war / OUTBREAK : Europe enslaved -- Blitzkrieg -- Cruel conquerors -- The Battle of Britain -- Operation Barbarossa -- The winter war -- Pearl Harbor -- A new Pacific empire / THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN : War at sea -- Women at war -- The science of warfare -- Death from above -- Industry goes to war -- Fighting China -- The Holocaust -- Propaganda (truth and lies) / AXIS IN RETREAT : America strikes back -- The desert war -- The ordeal of Stalingrad -- The Battle of Kursk -- Italy's tragedy -- War in the Pacific -- Back into Europe -- Children at war / THE END : Germany from the West -- Germany from the East -- Berlin falls -- Iwo Jima and Okinawa -- A knockout blow -- The world after the War -- Timeline.…”


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Complete history of WWII : the thrilling epic story of the greatest conflict ever!

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The century of warfare, Volume 4 [of 7]

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Army of evil : a history of the SS by Weale, Adrian

Table of Contents: “…The defeat of Wilhelmine Germany and the origins of the National Socialist Party -- The rebirth of national socialism and the creation of the SS -- Heinrich Himmler -- A new broom -- Taking control -- Consolidation -- Dachau and the establishment of the concentration camps -- The central organisation of the SS -- The Race and Settlement Office -- The SD -- the intelligence and security wing of the SS -- The path to genocide -- Euthanasia and the beginning of mass murder -- Origins of the Waffen-SS -- Militarising the "political soldiers" -- Expansion of the militarised SS -- The invasion of poland and the special task groups -- The SS and the Polish Jews -- Gottlob Berger and the creation of the Waffen-SS -- Making up the numbers: foreign volunteers and criminals in the Waffen-SS -- The Waffen-SS heads east -- Operation Barbarossa and the first and second sweeps -- The Wannsee conference -- The extermination camps -- Auschwitz -- The final act -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Table of comparative military ranks.…”


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Panzer operations : Germany's Panzer Group 3 during the invasion of Russia, 1941 by Hoth, Hermann, 1885-1971

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Hitler : a biography by Longerich, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: A nobody -- The public self: Back in Munich: Politicization -- Joining the Party -- Hitler becomes Party Leader -- The march to the Hitler Putsch -- The trial and the period of the ban -- Creating a public image: A fresh start -- Hitler as a public speaker -- A new direction -- Conquering the masses -- Strategies -- On the threshold of power -- Establishing the regime: 'The Seizure of Power' -- First steps in foreign policy -- 'Führer' and 'people' -- Breaking out of the international system -- Becoming sole dictator -- Consolidation: Domestic flashpoints -- Initial foreign policy successes -- The road to the Nuremberg Laws -- A foreign policy coup -- 'Ready for war in four years' time' -- Conflict with the churches and cultural policy -- Hitler's regime -- Smokescreen: Resetting foreign policy -- From the Blomberg-Fritsch Crisis to the Anschluss -- The Sudeten Crisis -- After Munich -- Into war -- Triumph: The outbreak of war -- Resistance -- War in the West -- Diplomatic soundings -- The expansion of the War -- Operation Barbarossa -- The radicalization of Jewish policy -- The Winter Crisis of 1941/42 -- The pinnacle of power -- Hitler's empire -- Downfall: The turning point of the War and radicalization -- With his back to the wall -- Defeat looms -- 20 July 1944 -- Total war -- The end.…”


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Hitler's soldiers : the German army in the Third Reich by Shepherd, Ben (Ben H.)

Table of Contents: “…Poland, 1939-40 -- "Sitzkrieg," 1939-40 -- The Greatest Victory, 1940 -- Occupying the West, 1940-41 -- Planning Operation Barbarossa, 1940-41 -- Barbarossa Unleashed, 1941 -- Part III: Losing the Initiative. …”


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Lady Death : the memoirs of Stalin's sniper by Pavlychenko, Li͡udmyla Mykhaĭlivna, 1916-1974

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World War II : the definitive visual history : from Blitzkrieg to the atom bomb

Table of Contents: “…Life under the swastika ; Governments in exile ; The secret war ; The u-boat war ; Hunting the Bismarck ; The war in the desert ; Conflicts in the middle east ; The Balkans invaded ; Operation Barbarossa ; Nazi massacres ; Moscow saved ; America on the brink ; Japan gambles on war ; Pearl Harbor -- Shifting balance, 1942. …”


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Delivered from evil : the saga of World War II by Leckie, Robert, 1920-2001

Table of Contents: “…Arms, Operation Sea-Lion, the French Fleet, the Battle of Britain -- Fall 1940: The U-Boat Peril, Italy Invades the Balkans -- September 1940-January 1941: The Desert War -- January 1941: Libya -- Spring 1941: The Balkans, Greece, Crete -- Spring 1941: The Middle East -- Erwin Rommel -- The Battle of Hellfire Pass -- Rudolf Hess and Operation Barbarossa -- Hitler Drives for Moscow -- The Birth of the Atom Bomb -- Operation Crusader: Duel in the Desert -- The Siege of Leningrad Begins -- August 1941: Hitler Drives Southeast -- The Rise of Modern Japan -- Hideki Tojo -- Isoroku Yamamoto and the Planning for Pearl Harbor -- Douglas MacArthur -- December 1941: "Honolulu Sleeps" -- Tora! …”


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