Bibliography of World War II

This is a bibliography of works on World War II.

The bibliography aims to include primary, secondary and tertiary sources regarding the European theatre of World War II (1939–1945) and the Pacific War (1941–1945). By extension, it includes works regarding the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945). Additionally, the scope of the bibliography expands to the causes of World War II and the immediate aftermath of World War II, such as evacuation and expulsion and war crimes trials (such as the Nuremberg Trials and the Tokyo Trials). Works on the causes or the aftermath of World War II should only be included if they describe the respective events in the specific context of and relation to the conflict itself.

There are thousands of books written about World War II; therefore, this is not an all-inclusive list. This bibliography also does not aim to include fictional works (see World War II in popular culture). It does not aim to include self-published works, unless there is a very good reason to do so.

The following lists should include works of secondary literature that are concerned mainly with the origins of World War II in general or with the entry into World War II by one particular country.

• Aldrich, Richard J. (1993). The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–1942. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Baker, Nicholson (2006). Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• Deighton, Len (1993). Blood, Tears and Folly: An Objective Look at World War II. New York: HarperCollins.
• Del Boca, Angelo (1969). The Ethiopian War, 1935–1941. Translated by Cummins, P. D. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Henig, Ruth (1985). The Origins of the Second World War 1933–1941. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-203-33227-X.
• Ienaga, Saburo (1978). The Pacific War: 1931–45. New York: Pantheon.
• Iriye, Akira (1987). The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific. New York and London: Longman.
• Johnson, Ian Ona (2021). Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-067514-1.
• Martel, Gordon (1986). The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered. Routledge. ISBN 0-203-01024-8.
• McDonough, Frank (2011). The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective. Continuum. ISBN 978-1-4411-0773-2.
• Murray, Williamson (1984). The Change in the European Balance of Power 1938–1939. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Neville, Peter (2000). Appeasing Hitler: The Diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937–39. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-71495-4.
• Overy, Richard (2022). The Origins of the Second World War (5th ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-96326-9.
• Salerno, Reynolds Mathewson (2002). Vital Crossroads: Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
• Taylor, A. J. P. (1961). The Origins of the Second World War. London: Hamish Hamilton.
• Young, Robert J. (1996). France and the Origins of the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-24890-2.

• Bartrop, Paul R. (2022). The Routledge History of the Second World War. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-45535-3.
• Beevor, Antony (2012). The Second World War. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
• Bell, P. M. H. (2011). Twelve Turning Points of the Second World War. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
• Bess, Michael (2008). Choices under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II. New York: Vintage.
• Boog, Horst; et al. (2001). Osers, Ewald (ed.). The Global War. Germany and the Second World War. Vol. VI. Oxford: Clarendon. ISBN 978-0-19-873830-5. OL 7397819M.
• Buchanan, Andrew. "Globalizing the Second World War," Past and Present no. 258 (February 2023): 246–281. online; also see [1]
• Burleigh, Michael (2010). Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II. New York: HarperCollins.
• Calvocoressi, Peter; Wint, Guy (1972). Total War: The Story of World War II. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 978-0-394-47104-4.
• Commager, Henry Steele (1991). The Story of the Second World War. Washington DC: Brassey's. ISBN 978-0-08-041066-1.
• Dear, I. C. B.; Foot, M. R. D., eds. (1995). The Oxford Guide to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Gilbert, Martin (1989). The Second World War. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-0-8050-0534-9.
• Hanson, Victor Davis (2017). The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won. New York: Basic Books.
• Hastings, Max (2001). All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945. London: HarperCollins.
• Keegan, John (1989). The Second World War. New York: Viking.
• Kitchen, Martin (1990). A World in Flames: A Short History of the Second World War in Europe and Asia, 1939–1945. London: Longman.
• Lyons, Michael J. (1999). World War II: A Short History. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.
• Mercer, Derrik, ed. (1990). Chronicle of the Second World War. Harlow, Essex, UK: Longman Group.
• Murray, Williamson; Millett, Allan R. (2000). A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Harvard University Press.
• Nardo, Don (2005). World War II. Detroit: Greenhaven Press.
• Overy, Richard (1997). Why the Allies Won. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• ———, ed. (2015). The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II. Oxford University Press.
• ——— (2021). Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931–1945. New York: Viking.
• Parker, R. A. C. (2002). Second World War: A Short History. Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks.
• Roberts, Andrew (2011). The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War. New York: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-06-122859-9.
• Schreiber, Gerhard (2003). Der Zweite Weltkrieg [The Second World War] (in German). München: Verlag C.H.Beck.
• Snyder, Louis L. (1982). Historical Guide to World War II. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
• Stokesbury, James L. (1980). A Short History of World War II. New York: Morrow.
• Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken (2007). The War: An Intimate History, 1941–1945. New York: A. A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26283-7. LCCN 2007003640. OCLC 209249990. OL 22764689M.
• Weinberg, Gerhard L. (1994). A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Willmott, H.P. (2008). The Great Crusade. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
• Wright, Gordon (1968). The Ordeal of Total War, 1939–1945. New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 978-0-06-131408-7.

For general histories of national air forces, check the "specific military branches" section. For development of airplanes and technical histories, check the "science and technology" section.

• Williamson, Murray (1983). Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe 1933–1945. Air University Press. ISBN 978-1-78625-770-3.

• Allen, Bruce (1943). Air Offense Against Germany. New York: Holt.
• Cave, Hugh B. (1945). Wings across the World: The Story of Air Transport Command. New York: Dodd.

• Rikihei, Inoguchi; Tadashi, Nakajima; Pineau, Roger (1958). The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books.

• Biddle, Tami Davis (2002). Rhetoric and Reality in Air Warfare: The Evolution of British and American Ideas about Strategic Bombing, 1914–1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press.
• Bishop, Patrick (2008). Bomber Boys: Fighting Back, 1940–1945. London: Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-0-00-718986-1.
• Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore (2004). Bomber Aircrew in World War II: True Stories of Frontline Air Combat. Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword Aviation.
• Halpenny, Bruce Barrymore (1984). To Shatter the Sky: Bomber Airfield at War. Cambridge: P. Stephens.
• Hartley, Arthur B. (1958). Unexploded Bomb: a History of Bomb Disposal. London: Cassell.
• O'Neill, Brian D. (1999). Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer. New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Lee, Asher (1960). Blitz on Britain. London: Four Square.
• Mason, Francis K. (1969). Battle over Britain: a History of the German air assaults on Great Britain, 1917–18 and July–December 1940, and of the Development of Britain's air defences between the World Wars. London: McWhirter Twins.
• Richards, James M., ed. (1947). The Bombed Buildings of Britain: A Record of the Architectural Casualties. London: Architectural Press.
• Richards, William L. (1965). Pembrokeshire under fire: the story of the air-raids of 1940–41. Haverfordwest (Pembrokeshire): Hammond.
• Shipley, Paul; Rankin, Howard (1945). Bristol's bombed churches: a descriptive and pictorial record of their histories and destruction. Bristol: Rankin.
• Underdown, Thomas H. J. (1952). Bristol under blitz: the record of an ancient city and people during the battle of Britain, 1940–1. Bristol: Arrowsmith.

• Frankland, Noble (1965). The bombing offensive against Germany: outlines and perspectives. London: Faber & Faber.
• ——— (1969). Bomber Offensive: the Devastation of Europe. New York: Ballantine.
• Friedrich, Jörg. (2008). The Fire: The Bombing of Germany, 1940–1945. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13380-7.
• Middlebrook, Martin (2000). The Battle of Hamburg. London: Cassell.
• ——— (2000). The Berlin Raids. London: Cassell.
• ——— (1986). The Nuremberg Raid. London: Penguin.
• Overy, Richard (2014). The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War over Europe, 1940–1945. New York: Viking.
• Taylor, Frederick (2004). Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945. New York: HarperCollins.
• Webster, Charles; Frankland, Noble (1961). The Strategic Air Offensive against Germany, 1939–1945. Vol. 1–4. London: HMSO.

For the history of specific theaters or specific units, see the respective sections.

• Ayling, Keith (1944). They Fly to Fight: the Story of the Airborne Divisions. New York: Appleton.
• Brammall, Ronald (1965). The Tenth: a Record of Service of the 10th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, 1942–1945, and the 10th Battalion, the Parachute Regiment (T.A.) (county of London), 1947–1965. Ipswich: Eastgate.
• Edwards, Roger (1974). German Airborne Troops, 1936–45. London: Macdonald & Janes.
• Gavin, James M. (1947). Airborne Warfare. Washington DC: Infantry Journal Press.
• Gregory, Barry (1974). British Airborne Troops. London: Macdonald & Janes.
• Huston, James A. (1972). Out of the Blue: U.S. Army Airborne Operations in World War II. Lafayette: Purdue University Studies.
• MacDonald, Charles B. (1969). By Air to Battle. New York: Ballantine.
• ——— (1970). Airborne. New York: Ballantine.
• Newnham, Maurice (1947). Prelude to Glory: the Story of the Creation of Britain's Parachute Army. London: Low.
• Norton, Geoffrey G. (1971). The Red Devils: the Story of the British Airborne Forces. London: Cooper.
• Sampson, Francis L. (1958). Look Out Below!: A Story of the Airborne by a Paratrooper Padre. Washington DC: Catholic University of America.
• Tugwell, Maurice (1971). Airborne to Battle: A History of Airborne Warfare, 1918–1971. Kimber.
• Warren, John C. (1955). Airborne Missions in the Mediterranean, 1942–1945. Washington DC: USAF Historical Division.
• ——— (1956). Airborne Operations in World War II, European Theatre. Washington DC: USAF Historical Division.
• Whiting, Charles (1974). Hunters from the Sky: The German Parachute Corps, 1941–1945. New York: Stein & Day.

For histories of the United States Marine Corps, see the respective section under in the specific branches section.

• Burton, Earl (1944). By Sea and by Land: The Story of our Amphibious Forces. New York: McGraw-Hill.

• Watkins, J. H.; Leslie, Donald (1955). On Target: A Souvenir of 'Ack-Ack'. London: Territorial. – Released in 1955 upon the disbandment of the British Anti-Aircraft Command.

• Milsom, John; Chamberlain, Peter (1974). German Armoured Cars of Two World Wars. London: Arms & Armour.
• Warwick, Nigel W. M. (2014). In Every Place: The RAF Armoured Cars in the Middle East 1921–1953. Rushden: Forces & Corporate Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9574725-2-5.

• Battistelli, Pier Paolo (2007). Panzer Divisions: The Blitzkrieg Years 1939–40. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-146-5.
• Bradford, George (1974). Armour Camouflage and Markings, North Africa 1940–1943. London: Arms & Armour.
• Crow, Duncan (1972). British and Commonwealth Armoured Formations (1919–46). Windsor (Berkshire): Profile.
• Martel, Giffard Le. Q. (1945). Our [British] Armoured Forces. London: Faber.
• Windrow, Martin (1982). The Panzer Divisions. Hippocrene Books. ISBN 0-88254-165-X.
• Zaloga, Steven J. (1995). Tank Battles of the Pacific War 1941–1945. Concord Publications.

• Bidwell, Shelford (1970). Gunners at War: A Tactical Study of the Royal Artillery in the Twentieth Century. London: Arms & Armour.
• Duncan, William E.; et al., eds. (1950). The Royal Artillery Commemoration Book, 1939–1945. London: Bell.
• Hogg, Ian V. (1974). German Artillery of World War Two. London: Arms & Armour.
• McLean, Donald B., ed. (1973). Japanese Artillery: Weapons and Tactics. Wickenburg (Arizona): Normount Technical.

• Kaufmann, J. E.; Jurga, Robert M. (1999). Fortress Europe, European Fortifications of World War II. London: Greenhill Books.

• Campbell, John (1985). Naval Weapons of World War Two. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Faulkner, Marcus & Wilkinson, Peter (2012). War at Sea: A Naval Atlas, 1939–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
• Ireland, Bernard (1998). Jane's Naval History of World War II. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-472143-8.
• Miller, Nathan (1995). War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Brown, David (1974). Carrier Operations in World War II. Vol. 1–2. London: Allan.
• Bryan, Joseph (1954). Aircraft Carrier. New York: Ballantine.
• Dildy, Douglas C. (2022). German and Italian Aircraft Carriers of World War II. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-4677-8.
• Gilbert, Price (1946). The Escort Carriers in Action: The Story in Pictures of the Escort Carrier Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, 1945, with a Supplement for the Flagship U.S.S. Makin Island. Atlanta, GA: Ruralist.
• Jensen, Oliver O. (1945). Carrier War. New York: Simon & Schuster.
• MacIntyre, Donald (1968). Aircraft Carriers. New York: Ballantine.
• Woolridge, E. T., ed. (1993). Carrier Warfare in the Pacific: An Oral History Collection. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

• Woodman, Richard (1996). Arctic Convoys 1941–1945. London: John Murray Publications.

• Cutler, Thomas J. (1994). The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23–26 October 1944. New York: HarperCollins.
• Lindemann, Klaus (1982). Hailstorm Over Truk Lagoon. Singapore: Maruzen Asia.
• Parshall, Jonathan; Tully, Anthony (2005). Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
• Prange, Gordon W. (1982). Miracle at Midway. McGraw-Hill.
• Symonds, Craig L. (2013). The Battle of Midway. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

• Blair, Clay (1996). Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunters, 1939–1942. New York: Random House.
• ——— (1998). Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945. New York: Random House.
• ——— (1975). Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan. New York: J. B. Lippincott & Co. ISBN 978-0-397-00753-0.
• Caulfield, Max (1958). A Night of Terror: The Story of the Athenia Affair. London: Muller. – About the sinking of SS Athenia by U30.
• Carpenter, Dorr; Polmar, Norman (1986). Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Paterson, Lawrence (2022). The U-Boat War: A Global History, 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-4825-3.
• Roscoe, Theodore (1949). United States Submarine Operations in World War II. Annapolis: United States Naval Institute.

• Hill, B. Kirkbride, ed. (1943). The price for freedom: a written and photographic record of over 500 of those who lost their lives in the Second World War while serving in the Armed Forces of Canada, Sept. 1939 to June 1942. Toronto: Ryerson.

• Mitcham, Samuel W. (1985). Hitler's Legions: The German Army Order of Battle, World War II. Stein & Days Publishing. ISBN 0-8128-2992-1.
• Jurado, Carlos Cabellero (1983). Foreign Volunteers of the Wehrmacht 1941–45. Osprey Military. ISBN 0-85045-524-3.
• Thomas, Nigel (1992). Wehrmacht Auxiliary Forces. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85532-257-8.

• Zaloga, Steven J. (1982). The Polish Army 1939–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 0-85045-417-4.

• Glantz, David M. (1998). Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• ——— (2005). Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941–1943. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Krivosheev, Grigori F. (1993). Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century. Stackpole Books.

• Joslen, H. F. (1960). Orders of Battle: U.K., and Colonial Formations and Units in the 2nd World War, 1939–1945. London: HMSO.

• Wise, Terence (1973). American military camouflage and markings, 1939–1945. London: Almark.

• Keogh, Eustace G. (1959). Middle East, 1939–1943. Melbourne: Wilkie.
• ——— (1965). South West Pacific, 1941–45. Melbourne: Grayflower.

• Feakes, Henry J. (1952). White Ensign, Southern Cross: A Story of the King's Ship of Australia's Navy. Sydney: Smith.
• Gill, George H. (1957). Royal Australian Navy. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
• Jones, Thomas M.; Idriess, I. L. (1952). The Silent Service: Action Stories of the Anzac Navy. London: Angus & Robertson.
• Walker, Allan S.; et al. (1961). Medical Services of the R.A.N. and R.A.A.F. with Section on Women in the Army Medical Services. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.

• Beede, John (1968). They hosed them out: a Story of Australian Gunners in the R.A.F. Sydney: Horwitz.
• Gillison, Douglas (1962). Royal Australian Air Force, 1939–1942. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
• Herington, John (1954). Air War against Germany and Italy, 1939–1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
• Odgers, George (1957). Air War against Japan, 1943–1945. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
• Powell, George G. (1945). Two Steps to Tokyo: A Story of the R.A.A.F. in the Trobriand and Admiralty Islands. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Walker, Allan S.; et al. (1961). Medical Services of the R.A.N. and R.A.A.F. with Section on Women in the Army Medical Services. Canberra: Australian War Memorial.
• Waters, John C. A. (1945). Valiant Youth: The Men of the R.A.A.F. Sydney: Johnston.

• Belgian-American Educational Foundation (1940). The Belgian campaign and the surrender of the Belgian Army, May 10–28, 1940. New York: Belgian-American Educational Foundation.

• Burns, Eedson L. M. (1956). Manpower in the Canadian Army, 1939–1945. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
• ——— (1970). General Mud. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
• Cosgrove, Edmund (1970). The Evaders. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
• Londerville, J. D. (1950). The Pay Services of the Canadian Army overseas in the War of 1939–45. Ottawa: Runge.
• Munro, Ross (1945). Gauntlet to Overlord: the Story of the Canadian Army. Toronto: Macmillan.
• Stacey, Charles P., ed. (1945–1946). The Canadian Army at War. Vol. 1–3. King's Printer.
• ——— (1946). Canada's Battle in Normandy. Ottawa: King's Printer.
• ———, ed. (1957–1960). Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War. Vol. 1–3. King's Printer.
• Whitcombe, Fred, ed. (1947). The Pictorial History of Canada's Army overseas, 1939–1945. Toronto: McClelland.

• Cosgrove, Edmund (1965). Canada's fighting pilots. Toronto: Clarke, Irwin.
• Coughlin, Tom (1968). The Dangerous Sky: Canadian Airmen in World War II. London: Kimber.
• Griffin, D. F. (1944). First steps to Tokyo: the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Aleutians. New York: Dent.
• McMillan, Don A. (1944). Only the stars know. London: Dent.
• ——— (1949). The R.C.A.F. overseas: the fifth year. London: Dent.

• Milne, Gilbert A. (1960). H.M.C.S. Toronto: T. Allen.
• Schull, Joseph (1952). The Far Distant Ships: an Official Account of Canadian Naval Operations in the Second World War. Ottawa: Cloutier.
• ——— (1963). Ships of the Great Days: Canada's Navy in World War II. London: Macmillan.

• Sumner, Ian (1998–2000). The French Army 1939–45. Vol. 1–2. Osprey Military. ISBN 1-85532-666-3.

• Gurtner, René (August 1956). "Deutsche Luftwaffen-Felddivisionen im Weltkrieg 1939–1945" [German Luftwaffe Field Divisions in the World War 1939–1945]. Allgemeine schweizerische Militärzeitschrift (in German). 122 (8): 592–608.
• Williamson, Murray (1983). Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe 1933–1945. Air University Press. ISBN 978-1-78625-770-3.

• Chamberlain, Peter, ed. (1972). Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WW2. Bukupedia.

• Wagner, Bernd (1982). Hitlers Politische Soldaten: Die Waffen-SS 1933–1945. Leitbild, Struktur und Funktion einer nationalsozialistischen Elite [Hitler's Political Soldiers: The Waffen-SS 1933–1945. Mission Statement, Structure and Function of a National Socialist Elite] (in German). Ferdinand Schöningh. ISBN 978-3-506-76313-6.
• Windrow, Martin (1982). The Waffen-SS. Osprey Military. ISBN 0-85045-425-5.

• Drea, Edward J. (2003). In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

• Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.

• Jones, Thomas M.; Idriess, I. L. (1952). The Silent Service: Action Stories of the Anzac Navy. London: Angus & Robertson.

• Barclay, Cyril N. (1964). On their shoulders: British generalship in the lean years, 1939–1942. London: Faber.
• Charteris, John (1945). The British Army today. New York: British Information Service.
• DeGuingand, Francis (1964). Generals at War. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
• Golding, Claud (1944). Footslogging it to Berlin: being a record of the valour of British Infantrymen in the present war. London: Blandford.
• Sheppard, Eric W.; Yeats-Brown, Francis C. C. (1941–1947). The Army: a complete record in text and pictures. Vol. 1–5. London: Hutchinson.
• Wilkinson, Frederick (1969). Badges of the British Army, 1820–1960. London: Arms & Armour.
• Yeats-Brown, Francis C. C. (1941). The Army from September 1939 to December 1940. London: Hutchinson.

• Hodges, Peter (1973). Royal Navy warships camouflage, 1939–1945. London: Almark.
• Raven, Alan (1972). King George the Fifth class battleships. London: Bivouac.

• Goulding, James (1971). Camouflage and markings: R.A.F. Fighter Command, Northern Europe, 1936–1945. London: Ducimus.

• Craven, Wesley Frank; Cate, James Lea, eds. (1948–1958). The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. 1–7. University of Chicago Press.

• Greenfield, Kent Roberts; et al., eds. (1946–1998). United States Army in World War II. Vol. 1–78. U.S. Army CMH.

• Rottman, Gordon L. (2002). U.S. Marine Corps World War II Order of Battle: Ground and Air Units in the Pacific War, 1939–1945. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.

• Baer, George W. (1994). One Hundred Years of Seapower: The U.S. Navy, 1890–1990. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot, ed. (1947–1962). History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 1–15. Little, Brown and Company.

Works that are mainly concerned with war crimes trials and persecution of war criminals after the conclusion of the war should be placed in the appropriate list in the "Aftermath of World War" section.

• Lily, J. Robert (2007). Taken By Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe in World War II. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Bartov, Omer (1986). The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press.

• Paris, Edmond (1962). Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945: A Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres. Chicago: American Institute for Balkan Affairs.

• Bartov, Omer (1986). The Eastern Front 1941–1945: The Barbarisation of Warfare. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Davidowicz, Lucy S. (1975). The War Against the Jews 1933–1945. Open Road. ISBN 978-0-03-013661-0.
• Fritz, Stephen G. (2011). Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky.
• Gallagher, Richard (1964). The Malmedy Massacre. New York: Paperback Library.
• Gutman, Yisrael (1994). Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-32684-2.
• Heer, Hannes (1995). Vernichtungskrieg: Verbrechen der Wehrmacht [War of Annihilation: Wehrmacht Crimes] (in German). Zweitausendeins. ISBN 978-3-930908-04-2.
• Lifton, Robert Jay (1986). The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. Basic Books.
• Megargee, Geoffrey P. (2006). War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Nałkowska, Zofia (1999). Medallions. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press.
• Shepard, Ben (2005). After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945. Jonathan Cape. ISBN 978-0-224-07355-4.
• Svabe, Arveds (1952). Genocide in the Baltic States. Stockholm: Latvian National Funds in the Scandinavian Countries.
• Whiting, Charles (1971). Massacre at Malmedy: The Story of Jochen Peiper's Battle Group, Ardennes, December 1944. London: Cooper.

• Connor, Sydney; Friedrich, Carl J. (1950). Military Government. Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science.
• Gulick, Luther H. (1959). Administrative Reflections from World War II. Alabama University Press.
• Taylor, Philip H.; Braibanti, Ralph (1948). Administration of Occupied Area: a Study Guide. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Occupation after 1945 should be covered in the postwar section.

• Friedrich, Carl J. (1948). American Experiences in Military Government. New York: Rinehart.
• Holbjorn, Halo (1947). American Military Government: its Organization and Policies. Washington DC: Infantry Journal Press.
• Maginnis, John J. (1971). Military Government Journal: Normandy to Berlin. Amherst, MA: Massachusetts University Press.

• Harris, Charles R. S. (1958). Allied Military Administration of Italy, 1943–1945. HMSO.

Occupation after 1945 should be covered in the postwar section.

• Donnison, Frank S. V. (1956). British Military Administration in the Far East, 1943–46. London: HMSO.
• Rennel, Francis J. (1948). British Military Administration of Occupied Territories in Africa during the Years 1941–1947. London: HMSO.

• Harris, Charles R. S. (1958). Allied Military Administration of Italy, 1943–1945. HMSO.

• Blood, Phillip W. (2006). Hitler's Bandit Hunters: The SS and the Nazi Occupation of Europe. Dulles, Virginia: Potomac Books.
• Fritzsche, Peter (2016). An Iron Wind: Europe under Hitler. New York: Basic Books.
• Gregor, Neil, ed. (2008). Nazism, War and Genocide. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
• Hale, Christopher (2011). Hitler's Foreign Executioners: Europe's Dirty Secret. The History Press.
• Littlejohn, David (1972). The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940–45. London: Heinemann.
• Mazower, Mark (2008). Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-1-59420-188-2.

• Goris, Johannes A., ed. (1943). Belgium in bondage. New York: Fischer.
• ———, ed. (1947). Belgium under occupation. New York: Fischer.
• Methuen, Paul A. (1952). Normandy Diary: Being a Record of Survivals and Losses of Historical Monuments in Northwest France, together with those of the Island of Walcheren and in that Part of Belgium traversed by the 21st Army Group in 1944–45. London: Hale.

• Petrow, Richard (1974). The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945. New York: Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-00275-6.

• Burrin, Philippe (1993). France under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise. New York: New Press.
• Methuen, Paul A. (1952). Normandy Diary: Being a Record of Survivals and Losses of Historical Monuments in Northwest France, together with those of the Island of Walcheren and in that Part of Belgium traversed by the 21st Army Group in 1944–45. London: Hale.

• Fasola, Cesare (1945). The Florence Galleries and the War: History and Records with a List of Missing Works of Art. Florence: Casa Editrice Monsalvato.
• Hartt, Frederick (1949). Florentine Art under Fire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
• Jenkinson, Hilary; Bell, H. E. (1947). Italian Archives during the War and at its Close. London: HMSO.
• Lavagnino, Emilio (1947). Fifty War-Damaged Monuments of Italy. London: HMSO.

• Petrow, Richard (1974). The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945. New York: Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-00275-6.
• Stokker, Kathleen (1995). Folklore fights the Nazis: Humor in Occupied Norway, 1940–1945. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-15444-0.

• Winstone, Martin (2015). The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe: Nazi Rule in Poland under the General Government. New York: I. B. Tauris.

• Berkhoff, Karel C. (2004). Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Dallin, Alexander (1981). German Rule in Russia 1941–1945. Boulder, Colorado: Westview.
• Shepherd, Ben (2004). War in the Wild East: The German Army and Soviet Partisans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

• Thomas, Nigel (1995). Axis Forces In Yugoslavia 1941–45. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-473-3.

• Benda, Harry J.; et al., eds. (1965). Japanese military administration in Indonesia. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• Salmon, E. Marling (1952). Beyond the Call of Duty: African Deeds of Bravery in Wartime. London: Macmillan.

• Bent, Rowland A. R. (1952). Ten thousand men of Africa: the story of the Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners, 1941–1946. London: HMSO. – Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) forces
• Gray, Brian (1953). Basuto Soldiers in Hitler's War. Maseru: Basutoland Government. – Basutoland (Lesotho)
• Jackson, Henry C. (1954). The Fighting Sudanese. London: Macmillan. – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
• Schmitt, Deborah Ann (2005). The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-97905-8. – Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) forces

• Ellis, John (1990). Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War. London: Viking.
• Greenfield, Kent R. (1979). American Strategy in World War II: A Reconsideration. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
• Miller, Edward S. (2007). War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945. US Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-500-4.

• Knox, MacGregor (1982). Mussolini Unleashed, 1939–1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33835-2.
• Mallmann, Klaus-Michael; Cüppers, Martin (2010). Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. Translated by Smith, Krista. New York: Enigma.
• Paine, S. C. M. (2017). The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-67616-9.

• Bowyer, Michael J. F. (1973). Bombing Colours: RAF bombers, their marking and operations, 1937–1973. Cambridge: Patrick Stephens.
• Cole, Howard N. (1946). Heraldry in War: Formation Badges, 1939–1945. Gale & Polden: Aldershot.
• Kerrigan, Evans E. (1967). American Badges and Insignia. New York: Viking.
• Rosignoli, Guido (1972). Army Badges and Insignia of World War 2: Great Britain, Poland, Belgium, Italy, U.S.S.R., U.S.A., Germany. London: Blandford.
• Wilkinson, Frederick (1969). Badges of the British Army, 1820–1960. London: Arms & Armour.

• Giertsen, Børre R., ed. (1946). Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene [Norwegian Prison Encyclopedia, Grini detention camp] (in Norwegian). Oslo: J.W. Cappelens. OCLC 491707642.
• Krammer, Arnold (1996). Nazi Prisoners of War in America. Lanham, Maryland: Scarborough House.

• Kochanski, Halik (2022). Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945. Liveright.

The following lists should include works focussed mainly on the history of a particular nation, state, or country during World War II. Histories of sovereign states as well as of colonial subjects and of cultural regions are of interest. Histories concerned with a particular theater of war should be placed in military history. For instance, a history of Poland during World War II should be placed in this section, but a history on 1939 invasion should be placed in the respective segment in the military history section.

Colonial names should be sorted alphabetically after their colonial name without colonial overlord identifiers. Colonial identifiers should be added with a comma, current countries names should be placed in brackets.

• Killingray, David (1986). Africa and the Second World War. St Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-7110-2853-1.
• Salmon, E. Marling (1952). Beyond the Call of Duty: African Deeds of Bravery in Wartime. London: Macmillan.

• Gray, Brian (1953). Basuto Soldiers in Hitler's War. Maseru: Basutoland Government.

• Bent, Rowland A. R. (1952). Ten thousand men of Africa: the story of the Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners, 1941–1946. London: HMSO.
• Schmitt, Deborah Ann (2005). The Bechuanaland Pioneers and Gunners. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-97905-8.

• Del Boca, Angelo (1969). The Ethiopian War, 1935–1941. Translated by Cummins, P. D. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Dower, Kenneth C. G. (1949). Abyssinian Patchwork: an Anthology. Muller.
• Pankhurst, E. Sylvia; Pankhurst, Richard (1954). Ethiopia and Eritrea: the Last Phase of the Reunion Struggle, 1941–1952. Woodford Green (Essex): Lakilela.

• Goda, Norman J. W. (1998). Tomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.

• Brelsford, William V., ed. (1954). The Story of the Northern Rhodesia Regiment. Lusaka: Government Printer.

• Tinley, James M. (1954). South African Food and Agriculture in World War II. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Note that the Middle East has its own section.

• Brook, Timothy (2005). Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Univ. Press.
• Hsiung, James C.; Levine, Steven I. (1992). China's Bitter Victory: The War With Japan, 1937–1945. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe.
• Liu, Xiaoyuan (1996). A Partnership for Disorder: China, the United States, and Their Policies for the Postwar Disposition of the Japanese Empire, 1941–1945. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Mitter, Rana (2013). Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937–1945. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
• Peattie, Mark; Drea, Edward; Ven, Hans Van De, eds. (2011). The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Plating, John D. (2011). The Hump: America's Strategy for Keeping China in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
• Sih, Paul K. T., ed. (1977). Nationalist China during the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Hicksville, New York: Exposition Press.
• Taylor, Jay (2009). The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Tuchman, Barbara (1972). Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911–1945. New York: Bantam.
• History of the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1945. Translated by Ha-hsiung, Wen. Tapei: Chung Wu Publishing Co. 1971.
• Yamaguchi, Noburu (2012). "An Unexpected Encounter with Hybrid Warfare: The Japanese Experience in North China, 1937–1945". In Murray, Williamson; Mansoor, Peter R. (eds.). Hybrid Warfare: Fighting Complex Opponents from the Ancient World to the Present. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Tomlinson, Brian R. (1979). Political Economy of the Raj 1914–1947: The Economics of Decolonization in India. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-22361-6.

• Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee R. (2006). The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

• Silverfarb, Daniel (1986). Britain's Informal Empire in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq 1929–1941. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-503997-1.
• Tarbush, Mohammed (1982). The Role of the Military in Politics: A Case Study of Iraq to 1941. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-92582-3.

• Allen, Louis (1971). "Notes on Japanese Historiography: World War II". Military Affairs. 35 (4): 133–138. doi:10.2307/1984792. JSTOR 1984792.
• Barnhart, Michael A. (1987). Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919–1941. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-9529-8.
• Carpenter, Dorr; Polmar, Norman (1986). Submarines of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
• Cohen, Jerome B. (1949). Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Cook, Haruko Taya; Cook, Theodore F., eds. (1992). Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press. ISBN 978-1-56584-039-3.
• Deacon, Richard (1982). A History of the Japanese Secret Service. London: Fredrick Muller.
• Drea, Edward J. (2009). Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853–1945. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
• Dull, Paul S. (1978). A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0-87021-097-1.
• Duus, Peter; Myers, Ramon H.; Peattie, Mark R., eds. (1996). The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931–1945. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
• Goldstein, D. M.; Dillon, K. V., eds. (2004). The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II. Dulles, Virginia: Brasseys.
• Gruhl, Werner (2007). Imperial Japan's World War Two, 1931–1945. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
• Harries, Meirion; Harries, Susie (1994). Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army. New York: Random House.
• Hayashi, Saburo and Alvin D. Coox. (1978). Kogun: The Japanese Army in the Pacific War. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
• Hotta, E (2007). Pan-Asianism and Japan's War, 1931–1945. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Ienaga, Saburō (1978). The Pacific War, 1931–1945: A Critical Perspective on Japan's Role in World War II. New York: Pantheon.
• Ike, Nobutaka, ed. (1967). Japan's Decision for War: Records of the 1941 Policy Conferences. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Jones, Francis Clifford (1954). Japan's New Order in East Asia: Its Rise and Fall. London: Oxford University Press.
• Koshiro, Yukiko (2001). "Japan's World and World War II". Diplomatic History. 25 (3): 425–441. doi:10.1111/0145-2096.00276. JSTOR 24914126.
• ——— (2004). "Eurasian eclipse: Japan's end game in World War II". American Historical Review. 109 (2): 417–444. doi:10.1086/530338. JSTOR 10.1086/530338.
• ——— (2013). Imperial Eclipse: Japan's Strategic Thinking about Continental Asia before August 1945. Cornell University Press.
• Rikihei, Inoguchi; Tadashi, Nakajima; Pineau, Roger (1958). The Divine Wind: Japan's Kamikaze Force in World War II. New York: Ballantine Books.
• Storry, George Richard (1979). Japan and the Decline of the West in Asia 1894–1943. London: Longman.
• Utley, Jonathan G. (2005). Going to War with Japan 1937–1941. New York: Fordham University Press.
• Willmott, H. P. (1982). Empires in the Balance: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies to April 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
• ——— (2008). The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Strategies February to June 1942. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.

• Aldrich, Richard J. (1993). The Key to the South: Britain, the United States, and Thailand during the Approach of the Pacific War, 1929–1942. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Reynolds, E. Bruce (2005). Thailand's Secret War: The Free Thais, OSS, and SOE during World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

• Francis, Michael J. (1977). The Limits of Hegemony: United States Relations with Argentina and Chile during World War II. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press.
• Frank, Gary (1979). Struggle for Hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War. Miami: University of Miami Press.
• Newton, Ronald C. (1992). The "Nazi Menace" in Argentina, 1931–1947. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

• Frank, Gary (1979). Struggle for Hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War. Miami: University of Miami Press.
• McCann, Frank D. Jr. (1973). The Brazilian-American Alliance, 1937–1945. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

• Armstrong, Elizabeth H. (1942). French Canadian opinion on the war, January, 1940 – June, 1941. Toronto: Hyerson.
• Britnell, George; Fowke, Vernon C. (1962). Canadian Agriculture in War and Peace. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
• Dawson, Robert M. (1961). The Conscription Crisis of 1944. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
• Dziuban, Stanley W. (1959). Military relations between the United States and Canada, 1939–1945. Washington DC: U.S. Department of the Army.
• Engen, Robert (2009). Canadians Under Fire: Infantry Effectiveness in the Second World War. Montreal: MQUP.
• Feasby, W. R., ed. (1953–1956). Official History of the Canadian Medical Services, 1939–1945. Vol. 1–2. Ottawa: Queen's Printer.
• Granatstein, Jack L. (1969). Conscription in the Second World War, 1939–1945: a Study in Political Management. Toronto: Ryerson.
• Kennedy, John de N. (1950). History of the Department of Munitions and Supply: Canada in the Second World War. Ottawa: King's Printer.
• King, William L. M. (1941). Canada at Britain's side. London: Macmillan.
• ——— (1945). Canada and the Fight for Freedom. New York: Duell.
• LaVoilette, Forrest E. (1948). Canadian Japanese and World War II: a sociological and psychological account. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
• Malone, Richard S. (1946). Missing from the Record. Toronto: Collins.
• Pickersgill, J. W. (1960). The Mackenzie King record. Toronto: Toronto University Press.

• Francis, Michael J. (1977). The Limits of Hegemony: United States Relations with Argentina and Chile during World War II. Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press.

Austria was part of Germany between 1938 and 1945 (see: Anschluss). This section contains books relevant specifically to that segment of the German Reich in the timeframe or to the postwar Republic of Austria in its relationship to World War II.

• Art, David (2006). The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85683-6.
• Pauley, Bruce F. (2000). From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-6376-3.
• Steininger, Wolf (2008). Austria, Germany, and the Cold War: from the Anschluss to the State Treaty 1938–1955. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-326-8.

• Belgian-American Educational Foundation (1940). The Belgian campaign and the surrender of the Belgian Army, May 10–28, 1940. New York: Belgian-American Educational Foundation.
• Goris, Johannes A., ed. (1943). Belgium in bondage. New York: Fischer.
• ———, ed. (1947). Belgium under occupation. New York: Fischer.

• Miller, Marshall Lee (1975). Bulgaria during the Second World War. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-0870-3.
• Rachev, Stoyan (1981). Anglo-Bulgarian Relations during the Second World War, 1939–1944. Translated by Kostov, Stefan. Sofia, Bulgaria: Sofia.

• Paris, Edmond (1962). Genocide in Satellite Croatia, 1941–1945: A Record of Racial and Religious Persecutions and Massacres. Chicago: American Institute for Balkan Affairs.
• Ramet, Sabrina P., ed. (2007). The Independent State of Croatia, 1941–45. London: Routledge.

• Petrow, Richard (1974). The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945. New York: Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-00275-6.

• Corum, James S.; et al., eds. (2014). The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
• Svabe, Arveds (1952). Genocide in the Baltic States. Stockholm: Latvian National Funds in the Scandinavian Countries.

• Berry, R. Michael (1987). American Foreign Policy and the Finnish Exception: Ideological Preferences and Wartime Realities. Helsinki: Finnish Historical Society.
• Krosby, H. Peter (1968). Finland, Germany, and the Soviet Union, 1940–1941: The Petsamo Dispute. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-05140-2.
• Lunde, Henrik O. (2011). Finland's War of Choice: The Troubled German-Finnish Coalition in World War II. Havertown, Pennsylvania: Casemate.
• Lundin, Charles Leonard (1957). Finland in the Second World War. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press.
• Menger, M (1988). Deutschland und Finnland im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Berlin: Militärverlag.
• Vehviläinen, Olli (2002). Finland in the Second World War: Between Germany and Russia. Gordonsville: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Amouroux, Henri (1976–1993). La Grande Histoire des Français sous l'Occupation [The Grand History of the French Under Occupation] (in French). Vol. 10 volumes. Paris: R. Laffont.
• Aron, Robert (1964). France Reborn: The History of the Liberation, June 1944-May 1945. New York: C. Scribner's Sons.
• Bloch, Marc (1968). Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940. W. W. Norton & Company.
• Davies, Peter (2001). France and the Second World War: Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance. London: Routledge.
• Smith, Colin (2009). England's Last War against France: Fighting Vichy 1940–1942. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
• Thomas, R. T. (1979). Britain and Vichy: The Dilemma of Anglo-French Relations, 1940–42. New York: St. Martin's.
• Young, Robert J. (1996). France and the Origins of the Second World War. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-24890-2.

For books specifically about German-owned Austria between 1938 and 1945, see the "Austria" section.

• Burdick, Charles B. (1968). Germany's Military Strategy and Spain in World War II. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.
• Carter, Carolle J. (1977). The Shamrock and the Swastika: German Espionage in Ireland in World War II. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books. ISBN 0-87015-221-1.
• DiNardo, Richard (2005). Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
• Hitler, Adolf (1964). Trevor-Roper, Hugh (ed.). Hitler's War Directives, 1939–1945. Sidgwick and Jackson.
• Military History Research Office (1979–2008). Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg [The German Reich and the Second World War] (in German). Vol. 1–13. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt.
• Leitz, Christian (2000). Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe during the Second World War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.
• Shirer, William L. (1960). The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-72868-7.

• Cornelius, Deborah S. (2011). Hungary in World War II: Caught in the Cauldron. New York: Fordham University Press.
• Dreisziger, Nandor F., ed. (1983). Hungary and the Second World War. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
• Fenyo, Mario D. (1972). Hitler, Horthy, and Hungary: German-Hungarian Relations, 1941–1944. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
• Macartney, Carlile A. (1956–1957). October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary 1929–1945. Edinburgh: University Press.

• Carter, Carolle J. (1977). The Shamrock and the Swastika: German Espionage in Ireland in World War II. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books. ISBN 0-87015-221-1.
• Duggan, John P. (1985). Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan.
• Dwyer, T. Ryle (2009). Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland's Phoney Neutrality during World War II. Dublin, Ireland: Gill and Macmillan.
• Fisk, Robert (1983). In Time of War: Ireland, Ulster, and the Price of Neutrality, 1939–1945. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-7888-0.

• Knox, MacGregor (1982). Mussolini Unleashed, 1939–1941: Politics and Strategy in Fascist Italy's Last War. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33835-2.
• Knox, MacGregor (2000). Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79047-5.
• Morgan, Philip (2007). The Fall of Mussolini: Italy, the Italians, and the Second World War. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280247-7.

• Corum, James S.; et al., eds. (2014). The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
• Svabe, Arveds (1952). Genocide in the Baltic States. Stockholm: Latvian National Funds in the Scandinavian Countries.

• Corum, James S.; et al., eds. (2014). The Second World War and the Baltic States. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
• Svabe, Arveds (1952). Genocide in the Baltic States. Stockholm: Latvian National Funds in the Scandinavian Countries.

• De Jong, Loe (1969–1991). The Kingdom of the Netherlands During World War II. Vol. 1–14. Amsterdam: Dutch Institute for War Documentation.

• Petrow, Richard (1974). The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945. New York: Morrow. ISBN 978-0-688-00275-6.

• Garliriski, Jozef (1985). Poland in the Second World War. New York: Hippocrene.
• Kochanski, Halik (2014). The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
• Lukas, Richard C. (1978). The Strange Allies: The United States and Poland, 1941–1945. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-0-87049-229-7.
• Nałkowska, Zofia (1999). Medallions. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern Univ. Press.
• Prażmovska, Anita J. (1995). Britain and Poland 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Terry, Sarah Meiklejohn (1983). Poland's Place in Europe: General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939–1943. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

• Vintras, Roland E. (1974). The Portuguese Connection: The Secret History of the Azores Base. London: Bachman and Turner.
• Weber, Ronald (2011). The Lisbon Route: Entry and Escape in Nazi Europe. Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee.
• Weiss, Kenneth G. (1980). The Azores in Diplomacy and Strategy, 1940–1945. Alexandria, Virginia: Institute of Naval Studies, Center for Naval Analysis.

• Axworthy, Mark; Scafes, Cornel I.; Crăciunoiu, Cristian (1995). Third Axis, Fourth Ally: Romanian Armed Forces in the European War, 1941–1945. London: Arms and Armour.
• Deletant, Dennis (2006). Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Giurescu, Dinu C. (2000). Romania in the Second World War, 1939–1945. Boulder, Colorado: East European Monographs.
• Glantz, David M. (2007). Red Storm over the Balkans: The Failed Soviet Invasion of Romania, Spring 1944. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.

• Burdick, Charles B. (1968). Germany's Military Strategy and Spain in World War II. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.
• Payne, Stanley G. (2008). Franco and Hitler: Spain, Germany, and World War II. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
• Pike, David Wingeate (2008). Franco and the Axis Stigma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Carlgren, W. M. (1977). Swedish Foreign Policy during the Second World War. Translated by Spencer, Arthur. New York: St. Martin's. ISBN 978-0-312-78058-6.
• Gilmour, John (2011). Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

• Bower, Tom (1997). Nazi Gold: The Full Story of the Fifty-Year Swiss-Nazi Conspiracy to Steal Billions from Europe's Jews and Holocaust Survivors. New York: HarperCollins.
• Halbrook, Stephen (2010). The Swiss and the Nazis. Philadelphia: Casemate Pub.
• Kreis, Georg (2000). Switzerland and the Second World War. London: Cass.
• Piekalkiewicz, Janusz (1978). Schweiz 39–45 [Switzerland 39–45] (in German). Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-87943-510-3.
• Wylie, Neville (2003). Britain, Switzerland, and the Second World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Cossaboom, Robert; Leiser, Gary (1998). "Adana Station 1943–45: Prelude to the Post-War American Military Presence in Turkey". Middle Eastern Studies. 34 (1): 73–86. doi:10.1080/00263209808701210. JSTOR 4283918.
• Deringil, Selim (1989). Turkish Foreign Policy During the Second World War: An "Active" Neutrality. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
• MacFie, A. L. (1989). "The Turkish Straits in the Second World War, 1939–45". Middle Eastern Studies. 25 (2): 238–248. doi:10.1080/00263208908700778. JSTOR 4283302.
• Olmert, Y. (1987). "Britain, Turkey and the Levant Question during the Second World War". Middle Eastern Studies. 23 (4): 437–452. doi:10.1080/00263208708700720. JSTOR 4283204.
• Tamkin, Nicholas (2009). Britain, Turkey, and the Soviet Union, 1940–45: Strategy, Diplomacy, and Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Weber, Frank G. (1979). The Evasive Neutral: Germany, Britain, and the Quest for a Turkish Alliance in the Second World War. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-0262-8.

• Agar, Herbert (1972). Britain Alone: June 1940 – June 1941. London: Bodley Head.
• Calder, Angus (1971). The People's War: Britain, 1939–1945. London: Panther.
• Collier, Basil (1957). The Defence of the United Kingdom. London: HMSO.
• Donnelly, Mark (1999). Britain in the Second World War. New York: Routledge.
• Donnison, Frank S. V. (1956). British Military Administration in the Far East, 1943–46. London: HMSO.
• Gillman, Peter; Gillman, Leni (1980). Collar the Lot! How Britain Interned & Expelled its Wartime Refugees. Quartet Books.
• Harkness, Douglas (1955). The War and British Agriculture. London: King & Staples.
• Hogg, Quintin (1945). The Left Was Never Right. London: Faber and Faber.
• Kolinsky, Martin (1999). Britain's War in the Middle East: Strategy and Diplomacy, 1936–1942. Basingstoke, UK: Macmillan.
• MacInnes, Charles M. (1962). Bristol at war. London: Museum.
• Ponting, Clive (1990). 1940: Myth and Reality. AbeBooks. ISBN 978-1-56663-036-8.