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From gripping historical accounts and personal memoirs to illuminating biographies, the books I’ve selected provide invaluable insights into the causes, events, and lasting impacts of the Second World War.
The bombing of Stuttgart in World War II was a series of 53 air raids that formed part of the strategic air offensive of the Allies against Germany. The first bombing (by 20 aircraft of the Royal Air Force) occurred on August 25, 1940, and resulted in the destruction of 17 buildings.
Stumbling Colossus: The Red Army on the Eve of World War. By David M. Glantz. Why did I love this book? A truly extraordinary examination of the army that would do a majority of the fighting and suffer as well as inflict the largest portion of the military casualties of the European part of World War II.
Tony Judt covers everything from the immediate wave of vengeance that swept the continent after the Germans were defeated, to the economic miracles of the 1950s and 60s, right through to the formation of the European Union in the 1990s.
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Sep 23, 2016 · The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank. Perhaps one of the most important pieces of literature produced during the war. Anne Frank kept the diary for the two years that she and her family went into hiding in a concealed room in a building where her father worked.
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Postwar Europe was a scene of both physical and moral destruction. Keith Lowe, author of the award-winning Savage Continent, recommends essential reading for understanding the sheer scale of suffering, dislocation and fighting after the war was over.
From biographies to bird's-eye views, memoirs to timeless reportage, here is a selection of the best non-fiction books ever written about the Second World War. To call the Second World War merely a war is almost a misnomer; it was never just one war, but so many wars in one.
