This page is a collection of posts that I have made over the years that are relevant to WWII. If you are interested in the WWII era of history, you may find these other two pages of mine of interest.
The “World War II Resources” page is a constantly growing collection of more than 600 links to museums, memorials, websites, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and other sources with information on the World War II-era in history.
The “World War II Timeline” page expands almost daily and shows events leading up to WWII, as well as during the war. Events are broken down into the Pacific and European Theaters by date.
Last updated 22 March 2023
Nonfiction Books About WWII
- The Partnership: George Marshall, Henry Stimson, and the Extraordinary Collaboration That Won World War II
- Uniting America: How FDR and Henry Stimson Brought Democrats and Republicans Together to Win World War II
- The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler
- Abandoned World War II Aircraft, Tanks and Warships – more than 200 photos
- Entertaining the Troops: 1939–1945 – how the British entertained their troops
- Life and Death on the Eastern Front: Rare Colour Photographs From World War II
- World War II Battlefields: Battle Sites Today – 160 photos
- The Battalion Artist: A Navy Seabee’s Sketchbook of War in the South Pacific, 1943–1945
- Wehrmacht Panzer Divisions 1939–45 – 300 drawings
- Radio Operator on the Eastern Front: An Illustrated Memoir, 1940-1949
- Fallschirm-Panzer-Division ‘Hermann Göring’: A History of the Luftwaffe’s Only Armoured Division, 1933-1945
- From Texas to Rome: Fighting World War II and the Italian Campaign with the 36th Infantry Division
- Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich
- The Hitler Years: Triumph, 1933-1939
- Lucky Hitler’s Big Mistakes
- Hitler and His Women
- Nazi Sex Spies: True Stories of Seduction, Subterfuge and State Secrets
- Sex Under the Swastika: Erotica, Scandal and the Occult in Hitler’s Third Reich
- Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany
- Hitler’s Court: The Inner Circle of The Third Reich and After
- Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and Hitler: Germany’s Generals and the Rise of the Nazis
- The Battle of the Bulge: The Allies’ Greatest Conflict on the Western Front
- D-Day Minus One – How the Allies prepared in the days leading up to the Normandy invasion
- Normandy ’44: D-Day and the Epic 77-Day Battle for France
- Pioneers of Irregular Warfare: Secrets of the Military Intelligence Research Department of the Second World War
- SAS and Special Forces in World War II
- George Jellicoe: SAS and SBS Commander
- SOE in Denmark: The Special Operations Executive’s Danish Section in WW2
- The Enigma Story: The Truth Behind the ‘Unbreakable’ World War II Cipher
- Codebreaker Girls: A Secret Life at Bletchley Park
- Covert Radio Agents, 1939–1945: Signals From Behind Enemy Lines
- THE RESISTANCE IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1940–1945 (EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES: A SERIES IN SOCIAL THOUGHT AND CULTURAL CRITICISM)
- Guarding Hitler: The Secret World of the Führer – the units that guarded him, the vehicles he use, and the headquarters he occupied
- I Somehow Survived: Eyewitness Accounts from World War II – the stores of four Germans and a Norwegian woman married to a German
- Waffen-SS: Hitler’s Army at War
- Hitler’s Armed SS: The Waffen-SS at War, 1939–1945
- I Flew for the Fuhrer: Memoirs of the Third Reich’s Pilot
- Aces: True Stories of Victory and Valor in the Skies of World War II
- The Terror Raids of 1942: The Baedeker Blitz
- Poland Betrayed: The Nazi-Soviet Invasions of 1939 (Campaign Chronicles)
- Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World War II Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves
- Dunkirk to the Rhineland: Diaries and Sketches of Sergeant C S Murrell, Welsh Guards
- Disarming Hitlers V Weapons: Bomb Disposal, the V1 and V2 rockets
- The Second World War Through Soldiers’ Eyes: British Army Life, 1939–1945
- Churchill’s Flawed Decisions: Errors in Office of The Greatest Briton
- Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945
- Battle of Berlin: Bomber Command over the Third Reich, 1943–1945
- The Lancastria Tragedy: Sinking and Cover-up
- U-Boat: The German Submarine Campaign and the Allied Counter Attack 1939-1945
- Hitler’s War Beneath the Waves: The menace of the U-Boats
- Hitler’s Alpine Headquarters
- German Fighter Aircraft of World War II: 1939-45
- Aircraft of World War II: 300 of the World’s Greatest Aircraft 1939-1945
- Battle of Britain, 1940
- One of Churchill’s Own: The Memoirs of Battle of Britain Ace John Greenwood
- Bader’s Big Wing Controversy: Duxford 1940
- Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
- How the RAF and USAAF Beat the Luftwaffe
- Back from 44 – the Sacrifice and Courage of a Few: A Story of Heroism in the Skies over Western Europe
- Fighting Through to Hitler’s Germany
- Duel Under the Stars: The Memoir of a Luftwaffe Night Pilot in World War II
- Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler’s Revenge, April–May 1945
- Code Wars: How ‘Ultra’ and ‘Magic’ Led to Allied Victory – Signals Intelligence in WWII
- The Secret Life of an American Codebreaker
- Agents of Influence: A British Campaign, a Canadian Spy, and the Secret Plot to Bring America into World War II
- Agent Jack: The True Story of MI5’s Secret Nazi Hunter
- Marching from Defeat: Surviving the Collapse of the German Army in the Soviet Union, 1944
- Retribution: The Soviet Reconquest of Central Ukraine, 1943
- Stalingrad: Hitler’s Biggest Gamble October 1942
- Eyewitness to Wehrmacht Atrocities on the Eastern Front: A German Soldier’s Memoir of War and Captivity
- In the Hell of the Eastern Front
- StuG III Brigade 191, 1940–1945: The Buffalo Brigade in Action in the Balkans, Greece and from Moscow to Kursk and Sevastopol
- Last Witnesses – WWII childhood memories from Eastern Europe
- An American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy
- Drawing D – Day: An Artist’s Journey Through War
- Images of the National Archives: Codebreakers – a look at British Signals Intelligence and Bletchley Park
- Children Against Hitler: The Young Resistance Heroes of the Second World War
- Hitler’s Housewives: German Women on the Home Front – reflections on the German homefront by young women
- Resistance Heroines in Nazi and Russian Occupied Austria – the story of young women growing up in wartime Austria
- Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The daring young woman who led Frances largest spy network against Hitler
- Nancy Wake: World War Two’s Most Rebellious Spy
- Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII’s Most Highly Decorated Spy
- D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II
- The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line: Untold Stories of the Women Who Changed the Course of World War II
- Four Hours of Fury: The Untold Story of World War II’s Largest Airborne Invasion and the Final Push into Nazi Germany
- Secret Casualties of World War Two: Uncovering the Civilian Deaths from Friendly Fire
- City of London at War 1939–45
- Britain’s Coast at War: Invasion Threat, Coastal Forces, Bombardment and Training for D-Day
- Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis
- The Ghost Army: Conning the Third Reich
- The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944
- Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy, Airman, Gangster, Kill or Die: How the Allies Won on D-Day
- The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II
- The Great Desert Escape: How the Flight of 25 German Prisoners of War Sparked One of the Largest Manhunts in American History
- Escape from Paris
- Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War
- The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-42
- Hitler’s Last Plot
- An Englishman Abroad: SOE agent Dick Mallaby’s Italian missions, 1943–45
- Albert Speer – Escaping the Gallows: Secret Conversations with Hitler’s Top Nazi
- Air Apaches
- MacArthur’s Air Force: American Airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941–51
- America’s Few: Marine Aces of the South Pacific the Marine double-digit Aces
- The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
- Hitler’s Secret Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Nazi Plan for Final Victory
- SBS in World War II
- Special Boat Squadron
- Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Invisible Heros of World War II
- Burma: The Forgotten War
- A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941–45
- Desperate Journey – One Man’s True Story of his Escape from Burma in 1942
- Ian Flemming and Operation Golden Eye
- Reading Hitler’s Mind
- Weird War 2
- Ike and Monty
- Tidal Wave From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay
- Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
- Race of Aces: WWII’s Elite Airmen and the Epic Battle to Become the Master of the Sky
- Voices From the Second World War: Stories of War as Told to Children of Today
- Morning Star, Midnight Sun
- Lady Death
- Seven Days of Infamy
- Destination Casablanca
- Battle of Arnhem: Snapshots of War
- Arnhem: Ten Days in The Cauldron
- Bismark: 24 Hours to Doom
- Hunt the Bismarck: The pursuit of Germany’s most famous battleship
- The Jersey Brothers
- Tail Gunner Takes Over
- Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
- The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign
- John F. Kennedy and PT-109
- World War II – targeted for Elementary Age readers
- Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe
- Storm Over Leyte: The Philippine Invasion and the Destruction of the Japanese Army
- Beyond Top Secret U
- The Heart of Hell: The Untold Story of Courage and Sacrifice in the Shadow of Iwo Jima
- Company Commander
- The Fall of Japan: The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific
- We Had a Job to Do: A Basic History of World War II Through the Eyes of Those Who Served
- The Second World War Tank Crisis: The Fall and Rise of British Armour 1919–1945
- Hitler’s War in Africa 1941-1942: The Road to Cairo
- WW II POWs in America and Abroad: Astounding Facts about the Imprisonment of Military and Civilians During the War
- Against All Odds: A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II -story of the 3rd Infantry Division
Fiction WWII Books
- Red Burning Sky: A WWII Novel Inspired by the Greatest Aviation Rescue in History
- Wolf – an inside look at the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party
- The Cauldron – the British at Arnehm
- Prince of Spies – Richard Prince Spy Thriller #1
- Ring of Spies – Richard Prince Spy Thriller #3
- Agent in Berlin – Wolf Pack Spies #1
- Agent in Peril – Wolf Pack Spies #2
- Germania – a mystery set in WWII Berlin. Richard Oppenheimer #1
- The Linden Tree – alternative history set in WWII where the Germans are the first to develop nuclear weapons
- Blame the Dead – Eddie Harkins mystery #1
- Reluctant Hero
- Task Force Baum
- Keep Calm and Carry On, Children – WWII young adult mystery set in rural England
- The Bells of Hell – Welker & Saboy Thriller #1
- Spitfire: A Livy Nash Mystery – mystery involving former SOE agent Livy Nash. Livy Nash Mystery #1
- The Four Symbols – Black Sun #1, Nazis looking for objects with occult powers
- Hellbound – Black Sun #3, Nazis continue looking for objects with occult powers
- Winston’s Spy: Carlton Chronicles 1
- Breaking Point: A Novel of The Battle of Britain
- The Nugget – Navy pilot in the Pacific
- Fall Rotten – a mystery set in 1939-40 France
- Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders – Poppy Redfern Mystery #1
- Region 6: What if the Allies had lost?
- The Sky Above Us – WWII era romance
- Conspiracy of Lies
- The Ventriloquists
- Lions of the Desert
- Mr. Campion’s War
- The Last Nazi
- The Sheer Nerve
- The Gemini Agenda
- The Parcifal Pursuit
- The Berlin Affair
- Prisoner in the Castle – Maggie Hope Mystery #8
- The King’s Justice – Maggie Hope Mystery #9
- The Hollywood Spy – Maggie Hope Mystery #10
- Mother Daughter Traitor Spy
- Against All Odds
- The Steel Fist
- Black Phoenix
- Airborne
- The Valkyrie Directive
- Soldier, Sail North
- Operation Armageddon
- The Judas Battalion
- Blue Madonna – a Billy Boyle WWII Mystery #11
- The White Ghost – a Billy Boyle WWII Mystery #10
- The Rest is Silence – a Billy Boyle WWII Mystery #9
- A Blind Goddess – a Billy Boyle WWII Mystery #8
- Death’s Door – a Billy Boyle WWII Mystery #7
- Wind of Death
- The Rising Sun
- Battle for Glory
- Codename Lazarus
- Malta Victory
- Target Tobruk
- Hurricane Squadron
- The Intruders
- Hawker Typhoon
- Target Rommel!
- The Kingdom of the Air
- The Berghof Betrayal
- Too Late the Morrow
- Attack at Night
- Fifth Column
- Lammas Night
- The Commodore
- A Hero of France
- Sea Strike
- The Dead Don’t Bleed
- Fortress England
- The Skipper’s Dog’s Called Stalin
- Operation Fireball
- Flames Over France
- Target Ahead
- Sinking Ship
- Kindred
- Arctic Gold
- Flames Over Norway
- Tail Gunner
- Operation Diver
- Hunted
- Dead Secret
- Captain Riley
- No Human Enemy
- In command
- The Strasbourg Legacy
- Squadron Scramble
- The Sleeper
- Playing with Fire
- The Reich Device
- The Haigerloch Project
- The Suicide Exhibition
- The Lost and the Blind
- Unlucky Double
- The Hunt
- Hellhound, Take Me Home – adventure thriller set in Australia and the Pacific
- The Flight of U-463
- Tark’s Ticks Dark Valley (#5 in the Tark’s Ticks series. Ground combat in the Pacific)
- Tark’s Ticks War Paint (#6 in the Tark’s Ticks series. Ground combat in the Pacific)
- The Barbarossa Secret – the Reich lives on
- An Affair of Spies
- Battle Stations: A heart-stoppingly realistic military thriller
- Liberation – fictionalized story of SOE agent Nancy Wake
- The Double Agent
- El Alamein – the third and final book in the Danny Shaw / Manfred Brehme series
- Angel from Hell – first book in the Anna Fehrbach series
- The Blitz Detective – first novel in the Blitz Detective series
- The Ultra Betrayal – second in the Commor Thorn series
Graphic Novels
- Johnny Recruit
- The Flutist of Arnhem: A Story of Operation Market Garden
- The Jewish Brigade
- Children of the Resistance – Volume 1 – Opening Moves
- The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour
Maps
Music
- Rum and Coca Cola – 1945
- VE Day 75 concert
- A musical set in WWII “Only the Brave“
- We’ll Meet Again – 1939
- Tuxedo Junction – 1940
- Bless ‘Em All – 1940
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – 1944
- “White Christmas” By Bing Crosby – 1941
- Any Bonds Today?
- Czerwone Maki na Monte Cassino (Red Poppy Flowers on Monte Cassino)
- G.I. Jive
- Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)
- On the Swing Shift
- Beer Barrel Polka
- Sentimental Journey
- At Mail Call Today
- I’ll Walk Beside You
- Der Fuehrer’s Face
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
- Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Audio & Podcasts
- Podcast Series
- The Second World War
- Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg
- BBC World Service Witness World War II
- WW2 Podcast
- The History of WWII Podcast
- We Have Ways of Making You Talk
- World War II Nation
- World War II Chronicles
- Bletchley Park
- Stories of the Second World War
- For You the War is Over – A podcast about all things related to WWII POW escapes
- History Hack – Covers a variety of historical topics, but many are WWII related
- Individual Podcast Episodes
- HistoryExtra: A Serial Killer in Nazi Germany
- HistoryExtra: Secret Deals with Stalin
- HistoryExtra: The Last Kamikazes
- HistoryExtra: “Germany’s World War II“
- Missed in History Podcast – The 6888th Postal Battalion
- Missed in History Podcast: “The Night Witches”
- The Ghost Army – a Missed in History episode
- A Podcast about Kristallnacht
- The Home Front
Documentary Video
- 77 Years Ago – Operation Jericho
- 1940 on this Day in World War Two – short documentary videos
- Time-lapse Video – Doolittle’s Raid on Japan
- Time-lapse Video – Battle of Midway
- Time-lapse video of the St. Nazaire Raid
- Time-lapse Video of WWII ‘Hardest Day’ During Battle of Britain
- The Dambusters
- Sinking the Tirpitz
- British Infantry Weapons of WWII
- VE Day 75th Remembered
- British Infantry Kit
- The invasion of Poland in 1939
- 1940 Invasion of Norway & Denmark – short animated video
- The Channel Chase Operation Cerberus
- WWII – A Crash Course – WWII in 13 minutes
- WWII Documentaries from the WWII Foundation
- Evolution of the German Army Uniform
- “The War” a Ken Burns Film – 7 part, 14+ hour documentary of WWII
- Casualties of WWII by Country – video
- The Forgotten Battle for Lyme Bay
- World War II in Colour
- D-Day 6.6.44
- Victory at Sea on Vimeo
- Secret Allied Aircraft of World War II
WWII Movies / TV
- Foyle’s War – British mystery series set during WWII and shortly afterwards
- Greyhound – Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack
- Mission of Honor – the fictionalized story of the RAF 303 squadron made up of Polish pilots
- The Wackiest Ship in the Army
- Some Interesting Facts About “The Longest Day”
- 36 Hours of Hell
- Beachhead
- Beach Red
- Bombs Over Burma
- Black Brigade
- Battle of Britain
- Back to Bataan
WWII Short Films
- An animated depiction of the pursuit and sinking of the Bismark
- Lego D-Day – The Battle for Omaha Beach – a stop motion video
- La Dernière Section
- REUE
- The Way Back
- Rauch
- Lost
- Only Few Seconds
- Kurland ’44
- Prisoner of War
- Remember the Fallen
- Kanonenfutter
- Sons of the Fatherland
- The Jeep
- The Last to Die
- A Rough Day
- Addle Strife
- Battle of the Bulges 1944
- Surrender
- Claws of Death
- Unintended
Museums and other WWII Physical Sites
- USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park – WWII ships Alabama and Drum. Aircraft, vehicles on display as well.
- The Singapore Civilian War Memorial
- Fort Canning and the Battlebox
- Texas Military Forces Museum
- The Singapore Cenotaph
- The National World War II Museum
- Beer & the Military in WWII
- Home Front – Wartime Recipes (5)
- The National Loaf from 1942 England – bread without white flour, recipe included
- Home Front – Wartime Recipes (4)
- How Chocolate Helped To Win The War
- Home Front – Wartime Recipes (3)
- Home Front – Wartime Recipes (2)
- Home Front Recipes from WWII
- Chocolate Went to War
- Coffee at War
- Homity Pie
Miscellaneous WWII Posts
- Warbird Coffee Co. – selling coffee and working to keep WWII vintage Warbirds maintained
- Pacific War Art 1945 – reblogged from the Pacific Paratrooper Blog
- Pacific War Art 1944 – reblogged from the Pacific Paratrooper Blog
- Pacific War in Art 1943 – reblogged from the Pacific Paratrooper Blog
- Pacific War in Art 1941-1942 – reblogged from the Pacific Paratrooper Blog
- The Post World War II Boom: How America Got Into Gear – reblog from GP Cox
- Photos from 1944 that transform to present and back
- JSTOR lists many WWII relevant Journal articles or chapters from books.
- A Central Texas Connection to the “Desert Fox” – an item in the collection of the Texas Military Forces Museum
- Reading was important to the servicemen in WWII – a summary of a post on Sarah Sundin’s blog
- Mathematics Applied to the Battle of Britain
- “This is the Army” musical part I and part 2
- How Capitalism Helped to Win WWII
- 1938 European Air Force Insignia
- Video Summary of WWII
- How Donald Duck & Dumbo helped to win the war
- 79TH U.S. AIRBORNE BIRTHDAY
- Limited to 35 mph?
- A Relic of WWII is Returned
- 3D Comparison of WWII German Armor – video
- WWII German POW returns to say Thanks
- D-Day from a different view
- The Numbers for D-Day
- The 75th Anniversary of D-Day
- Interesting Specialty Tanks of D-Day
- French “HistoPad” Helps Tell the Story of D-Day
- VE Day (Victory in Europe)
- Visualizing WWII in Europe Day by Day – video
- Visualization of WWII Allied Bombing Missions in Europe
- Celebrating Thanksgiving in the Southwest Pacific
- Remembering D-Day 2018
- Thanksgiving – Then and Now
- Celebrating Thanksgiving in the Southwest Pacific
- Thanksgiving in WWII
- More Disney Nose Art
- WWII Disney Inspired Nose Art
- Disney Went to War
- 1944 USN M-592 Pilot Survival Kit Navy Ration MRE
- 1943 US Army Field Ration K Dinner
- WWII Eastern Front 1942 – video
- WWII Eastern Front 1941 – video
- No Coffee after 3PM? Less than one cup per day? Could you live with that now?
- Today is National V-J Day in the US
- Did you know today is V-J day?
- Today is the National Spirit of ’45 Day
- Remembering D-Day 2018
- Women and Computers in WWII
- World War II Allied Aircraft Nose Art
- The World of Sci-Fi During WWII
- Close Assault 1944
- A Look at D-Day, June 6, 1944
- Dunkirk Week – WWII Book Sale
- Remembering D-Day
- WWII Aircraft Suffer from Combat
- Slide show of World War II US Aircraft
- Celebrating Alan Turing
- The Female Computers of WWII
- The M-1 Garand – video
- American Spitfire – video