1. Bland, Larry,
editor. The Papers of George Catlett Marshall (4 volumes to date,
with the latest one published in 1996, ending on December 31, 1944).
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. This documentary publication
which is still in progress is publishing letters and memoranda written
by General George C. Marshall. These provide a look at General Marshall's
key role in the United States and its allies' war effort.
2. British Intelligence in the Second World War (6 volumes by
different authors published beginning in 1979). New York: Cambridge
University Press. Covers overall intelligence and its impact on strategy
and operations, signal intelligence, strategic deception and counter-intelligence.
These volumes are also official British histories. Unlike the United
States whose "Green Series" does not include any volumes covering
intelligence during the Second World War, the British decided to publish
a detailed if presumably sanitized account of its intelligence.
3. Chandler, Alfred,
editor. The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: The War Years
(5 volumes plus volume VI, Occupation). Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1970 (Vol. VI published in 1978). This series includes
letters and memoranda written by Dwight David Eisenhower reflecting
his operations planning and command responsibilities during the War.
This is a key source, which should be available in many public libraries
as well as university libraries.
4. Craven, W.F.,
and J.L. Cate, editors. The Army Air Forces in World War II (12
volumes). The University of Chicago, published by the Office of Air
Force History. This official history of the Army Air forces also contains
maps and illustrations.
5. Eisenhower, Dwight
D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, New York: Doubleday &
Company, Inc., 1948. This is Dwight Eisenhower's own account of his
service in World War II.
6. History of
the Second World War (27 volumes by different authors published
on varying dates). London, England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
These volumes constitute the official British history of the Second
World War. Volumes cover allied strategy, campaigns, and operations.
7. Illustrierter
Beobachter (Illustrated Observer), Verlag Franz Eher Nachf: Munchen
22. The Eisenhower Library holds bound volumes of the Nazi magazine
for the years 1926-27, 1928, 1929,1930, 19331,1932,1933,1934,1941,1942,
and 1944. These volumes are entirely in German and contain news articles,
advertisements, poems, sketches of personalities, crossword puzzles
and illustrations, all from the Nazi viewpoint.
8. Trial of the
Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Nuremberg,
14 November 1945-1 October 1946 (40 volumes). Published at Nuremberg,
Germany, 1946-49. Contains trial testimony as well as documents used
as evidence in the trials. Documents are in English, German, French,
and possibly other languages. This is an important source of information
for studying the Holocaust and war crimes.
9. United States Army in World War II. Office of the Chief of
Military History, Department of the Army, Washington D.C. (The Famous
"Green Series"). Over 100 volumes by various authors, published
at various times. This series covers most aspects of the US Army's involvement
in World War II in ETO, the Pacific, Continental US, with volumes on
specific campaigns and functions such as logistics, civil affairs, strategic
planning, role of Black troops, etc. One special segment covers the
US Medical Corps and medical matters during the War. These volumes,
in addition to narrative text, contain useful maps, photographs and
tables. At lest one of these volumes, Gordon Harison's Cross-Channel
Attack, published in 1951, which covers the Allied assault at Normandy
in June, 1944, is online at the US Army Center of Military History's
web site: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg. Other Center of Military History
publications on World War II may also be found at this location.
10. U.S. Department
of Defense. The "Magic" Background of Pearl Harbor
(8 volumes). Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977.
Contains declassified, English translations of Japanese messages intercepted
and decoded by U.S. cryptanalysts. The intelligence derived from these
intercepted communications was designated MAGIC. Provides a look at
Japanese diplomacy as documented by these intercepted messages during
the year 1941. Volumes include narrative descriptions of events as well
as texts of messages.
11. United States
Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States.
Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. The famous
"FRUS" series constitutes the official published record of
the United States foreign relations. This series, in existence since
1861, is a key source of information on the formulation and conduct
of United States foreign relations and is continuing to be researched,
prepared, and published to this day. Students interested in history
should be introduced to the series. For World War II, the series includes
volumes covering wartime conferences at Washington in 1941, Casablanca
in 1942, Cairo and Teheran in 1943, Quebec in 1944, Yalta and Potsdam
in 1945 as well as general volumes covering Europe, Asia, and other
parts of the world during the war. The Eisenhower Library holds a complete
set of these volumes with at least 50 or more of them relating to World
War II. University libraries should hold these volumes.
12. Weinberg, Gerhard
L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge,
England: Cambridge University Press, and New York: Columbia University
Press, 1994. The author of this one-volume history managed to cover
a good bit of the war while providing an excellent bibliographic essay,
which offers guidance for reading on many topics.
13. Wright, Gordon.
The Ordeal of Total War, 1939-1945. New York: Harper & Row
Publishers, 1968. This is an excellent survey of World War II in Europe
and introduces students to the economic, political, psychological, and
social aspects of the war as well as military operations.
Note: The Eisenhower
Library also holds volumes of magazines published during the War including
Time and Life as well as newspapers such as The New
York Times. In addition, the Library's printed publications holdings
include many issues of Stars and Stripes and Yank. The
book collection also contains numerous unit histories, memoirs, biographies,
and monographs plus encyclopedias relating to World War II.
