While waiting for HOI IV: An excellent book on WWII

[Housies]

While we are all waiting for HOI IV, I would like to share a title of an excellent book on WWII:

The Second World War by Anthony Beevor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_World_War_(book)

This famous author wrote lots of other good books about specific battlles of WWII, but I find this book a good representation of the conflict in the global context. I am now nearing the end in the book and must say I learned a lot about certain theatres of war I wasn't aware of. (like Norway/Denkmark, China, Kreta)

I am sure many of you have read this book already or know of other excellent reads. Please share them with me (as I will finish this book before HOI IV will be finished). I'll try to make a list below.

 

[pommiebastard]

Oh, if we're doing WWII Book Club, this is one of my favourites (recommended to me by a History teacher many years ago):

Why The Allies Won - by Richard Overy
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Why_the_Allies_Won.html?id=_pzEcf9Ii4AC&redir_esc=y

(before any of our resident Russophiles goes berserk about the name, this is the wider use of "Allies", including the USSR, and is very good on how heavy their contribution to victory was)

 

[Housies]

Oh, if we're doing WWII Book Club, this is one of my favourites (recommended to me by a History teacher many years ago):

Why The Allies Won - by Richard Overy
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Why_the_Allies_Won.html?id=_pzEcf9Ii4AC&redir_esc=y

(before any of our resident Russophiles goes berserk about the name, this is the wider use of "Allies", including the USSR, and is very good on how heavy their contribution to victory was)

Great, also read this one and its indeed very good reading. However after reading the book from Anthony Beevor, I understood the tensions between USSR and the allies Britain and USA a lot better.

 

[CocoCincinnati]

I'll check those out, here are some of my recommendations:

"Frozen Hell" by William Trotter about The Winter War.
"Barbarossa" by Alan Clark obviously about the Eastern Front.
"The Liberation Trilogy" by Rick Atkison covering Africa, Italy and the Western Front respectively.