S2 Actual reading list

War Diaries of Weary Dunlop, Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1945, The

E.E. Dunlop

Penguin · 1990

An account of Sir Edward Dunlop's experiences as a medical officer in the prisoner of war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway.

With Rommel in the Desert

Heinz Werner Schmidt

White Lion Publrs. · Sep 17, 1973

A first-hand account offering a perspective on Rommel's African campaign. Schmidt was close to Rommel throughout the two years of the campaign and provides details of the military action alongside personal perspectives of fellow-officers.

Army Group South: The Wehrmacht in Russia 1941-1945 (Schiffer Military History)

Werner Haupt

Schiffer Pub. · 1998

After long years of studying sources and literature, Werner Haupt presents the military history of one of the larger theaters of World War II. The completion of the history of “Army Group South” is the result of the author’s utilization of all available German and Russian literature, as well as those combat diaries and documents of the committed troop units that are available in German archives. In addition, the author was assisted in clearing up several questions by the advice of former members of the army group – from commanders to drivers. This third and final volume of a three volume set by Werner Haupt includes a volume each on Army Group North, Army Group Center, and now Army Group South. The author served in the German Army as a soldier and officer in the northern sector of the Eastern Front during the Second World War. He is also the author of Assault on Moscow 1941 (available from Schiffer Publishing Ltd.).

The Battle For Stalingrad

Vasily Chuikov

THE STORY OF WORLD WAR II'S GREATEST BATTLE AS TOLD BY THE RUSSIAN COMMANDER AT STALINGRAD.

Home Front Soldier: The Story of a GI and His Italian American Family During World War II

Richard Aquila

State University of New York Press · 1999

While other collections of letters and memoirs from World War II have dealt with upper-class individuals, officers, or college-educated people, Home Front Soldier is the first to explore the life of an ordinary, working-class, first-generation American. This gripping story of a young soldier, Philip L. Aquila, and his Italian American family during the Second World War includes a detailed introduction, providing historical context to the more than 500 letters that this sergeant wrote to his family back home in Buffalo, New York. Like an epistolary novel, the letters offer an intimate personal history of how a large immigrant family with four sons in the military coped with the daily traumas of World War II. Each of the major and minor plots relates to larger questions in American social history of the 1930s and 1940s, offering fresh insights about family history, gender relations, ethnic and immigration history, and everyday life on the home front. The book also fills a gap in military history by providing detailed information about soldiers stationed in the United States during the war.

I Lived Under Hitler: An Englishwoman's Story of Her Life in Wartime Germany

Sybil Bannister

Penguin · 1995

In 1933 Sybil Bannister, a young British woman, set up home in Danzig with her new husband, a German medical student. This is an account of the hardship of her war experience. Her marriage broke up, she was separated from her son, and endured Hamburg's bombing raids and the Wuppertal firestorm.

The Death of Hitler 1945: The Last Days in the Berlin Bunker

Mark Felton

The death of Adolf Hitler inside his Berlin bunker on 30 April 1945 was one of the most important events of World War II. Find out what happened in the bunker in the days leading up to his suicide, the important events, personalities, betrayals and military moves as well as how the bunker was organised, protected and defended. Written by Mark Felton, the author of over 20 books on WWII subjects and an expert on Nazi Germany and the Battle of Berlin.