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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIJohn W. Dower199942 pts5 wins6 listsThe New PressHistoryReconstruction+2
The Great War and Modern MemoryPaul Fussell197524 pts3 wins3 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to HitlerRebecca Donner202122 pts2 wins4 listsBack Bay BooksBiographyHolocaust+2
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956Anne Applebaum201220 pts1 wins4 listsDoubledayHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration CampsNikolaus Wachsmann201618 pts2 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarFrances FitzGerald200018 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterPolitics & GovernmentWorld War Ii+2
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945Robert Dallek197918 pts1 wins3 listsOxford University PressHistoryPresidency & Executive Power+2
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945David M. Kennedy199916 pts2 wins3 listsOxford University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+2
Hitler 1936-1945: NemesisIan Kershaw200116 pts1 wins3 listsAllen LaneHistoryTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's RussiaRichard Overy200414 pts2 wins2 listsAllen LaneHistoryWar & Military Strategy+3
Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of WarPeter Maass199614 pts2 wins2 listsVintage BooksWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichWilliam L. Shirer196014 pts2 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryWorld War Ii+2
Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for JusticeMary Fulbrook201914 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of EverestWade Davis201214 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914Christopher Clark201314 pts2 wins4 listsAllen LaneHistoryWorld War I+2
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi EconomyAdam Tooze200612 pts1 wins2 listsAllen LaneBusiness & EconomicsCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against HumanityPhilippe Sands201612 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945Saul Friedländer200912 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsHistoryWorld War I+2
Albert Speer: His Battle with TruthGitta Sereny199512 pts3 wins3 listsKnopfBiographySlavery & Emancipation+3
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955Harald Jähner202212 pts0 wins3 listsKnopfHistoryReconstruction+2
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-45Halik Kochanski202210 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeLizabeth Cohen202010 pts1 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945Waldo Heinrichs, Marc Gallicchio201810 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressWar & MilitaryPresidency & Executive Power+3
The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in EuropeDavid I. Kertzer201410 pts1 wins1 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's ItalyChristopher Duggan201210 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseHistoryConstitutional History+3
Nikolaus Pevsner: The LifeSusie Harries201110 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusBiographyReconstruction+3
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962Frank Dikötter201010 pts1 wins1 listsWalker & CompanyHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+2
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous LegacyDavid E. Hoffman200910 pts1 wins1 listsDoubledayWar & MilitaryVietnam War+2
From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial EqualityMichael J. Klarman200410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World WarDavid Reynolds200410 pts1 wins1 listsAllen LaneWar & MilitaryEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+3
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940Julian Jackson200310 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+3
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943Rick Atkinson200210 pts1 wins1 listsLittle, BrownWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-Century AmericaAlice Kessler-Harris200110 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryGender & Feminism+3
Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War IIJames Tobin199710 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity Press of KansasBiographyWorld War Ii+2
The Clash: A History of U.S.-Japan RelationsWalter LaFeber199710 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonHistoryMoney, Markets & Economic Policy+3
Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in MississippiJohn Dittmer199410 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World WarLynn H. Nicholas199410 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
Hitler and Stalin: Parallel LivesAlan Bullock199310 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsHistoryWorld War Ii+3
Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of MemoryLawrence L. Langer199110 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+2
"The Good War": An Oral History of World War IIStuds Terkel198510 pts1 wins1 listsPantheonWar & MilitarySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi OccupationIsaiah Trunk197210 pts1 wins1 listsMacmillanHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936–1945John Toland197010 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseWar & MilitaryAmerican Civil War+2
Pearl Harbor: Warning and DecisionRoberta Wohlstetter196210 pts1 wins1 listsStanford University PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+1
The Course of EmpireBernard De Voto,195210 pts1 wins1 listsHoughton MifflinHistoryAsia & the Pacific+2
Winston S. Churchill, vol. VI: Finest HourMartin Gilbert198310 pts1 wins1 listsWilliam HeinemannBiographyCold War & Nuclear Politics+3
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/IraqJohn W. Dower201010 pts1 wins3 listsW. W. NortonWar & MilitaryWorld War Ii+2
A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil WarAmanda Foreman201010 pts0 wins3 listsUnknown imprintHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945Tony Judt200510 pts0 wins3 listsPenguin BooksHistoryGender & Feminism+2
Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to PowerTimothy W. Ryback20248 pts2 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryMental Health & Psychology+3
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at WarDeborah Cohen20238 pts2 wins2 listsRandom HouseJournalism & ReportageClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of EmancipationJean M. Hébrard, Rebecca J. Scott20128 pts2 wins2 listsHarvard University PressRace & EthnicityWorld War Ii+3
Never Again: Britain 1945-1951Peter Hennessy19938 pts2 wins2 listsJonathan CapeHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
Bad Blood–A MemoirLorna Sage20008 pts2 wins2 listsHarperCollinsMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Time's Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and The Music of RemembranceJeremy Eichler20238 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfArts & CriticismWar & Military Strategy+2
The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916–1931Adam Tooze20148 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressHistoryWorld War I+2
Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and StalinTimothy Snyder20108 pts1 wins2 listsBasic BooksHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Children of WarRoger Rosenblatt19838 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Imperial PresidencyArthur M. Schlesinger Jr.19748 pts1 wins2 listsHoughton MifflinPolitics & GovernmentAsia & the Pacific+2
Survivors: Children's Lives After the HolocaustRebecca Clifford20218 pts0 wins2 listsYale University PressHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great WarTim Grady20178 pts0 wins2 listsYale University PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+3
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939—1941Lynne Olson20138 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HouseHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty YearsMcGeorge Bundy19888 pts0 wins2 listsRandom HousePolitics & GovernmentWorld War Ii+2
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific WarJohn W. Dower19868 pts0 wins2 listsPantheonWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+2
Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled EuropeMark Mazower20086 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressHistoryWar & Military Strategy+2
The Holocaust in American LifePeter Novick20006 pts1 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxHistorySoldiers, Veterans & Combat Experience+2
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space RaceMargot Lee Shetterly20166 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsRace & EthnicityCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern AsiaGary J. Bass20246 pts0 wins2 listsKnopfHistoryAfrica & the African Diaspora+2
Nuclear War: A ScenarioAnnie Jacobsen20246 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin Publishing GroupWar & MilitaryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold PringleAndrew Clark20026 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintWar & MilitaryEssays & Cultural Criticism+2
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's SuperpowersSimon Winchester20156 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryCold War & Nuclear Politics+2
Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic ScienceBenjamin Breen20244 pts1 wins1 listsGrand Central PublishingScienceClimate, Weather & Disaster+3
Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the HolocaustAri Joskowicz20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar EraEmily Marker20224 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for TruthJane Rogoyska20224 pts1 wins1 listsOneworldHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War IIFrancine Hirsch20204 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image MarketNadya Bair20204 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressJournalism & ReportageConstitutional History+3
The Year of Peril: America in 1942Tracy Campbell20204 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic EventsRobert J. Shiller20194 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBusiness & EconomicsDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945Emma Kuby20194 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressHistoryGenocide, Atrocity & Political Violence+3
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777Rick Atkinson20194 pts1 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyHistoryArt, Music & Performance+3
The Holocaust and New World Slavery: A Comparative HistorySteven T. Katz20194 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryWorld War Ii+3
The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History, and Meaning of MenopauseSusan P. Mattern20194 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressGender & SexualityScience & Discovery+3
The Unsettling of Europe: How Migration Reshaped a ContinentPeter Gatrell20194 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated AuschwitzJack Fairweather20194 pts1 wins1 listsW. H. AllenBiographyWorld War Ii+3
Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate ImperialismNan C. Enstad20184 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryCivil Rights & Racial Justice+3
Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of FascismTiago Saraiva20184 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and FoundBart van Es20184 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyReligion & Religious Movements+3
The Science and Politics of Race in Mexico and the United States, 1910-1950Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt20184 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressRace & EthnicityIndigenous History+3
Travelers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism: 1919–1945Julia Boyd20184 pts1 wins1 listsPegasus BooksHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+2
Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted TerritoryKeggie Carew20164 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusMemoir & AutobiographyCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World NationalismMichael Goebel20154 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Inequality: What Can Be Done?Anthony B. Atkinson20154 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressBusiness & EconomicsClimate, Weather & Disaster+3
Other People's Countries: A Journey into MemoryPatrick McGuinness20154 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyImmigration, Refugees & Borderlands+3
Citizenship between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945-60Frederick Cooper20144 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryEmpire & Colonialism+3
Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of FilmRobert Sitton20144 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressBiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the Shadow of WarIan Buruma20144 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismIndigenous History+3
The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King's Prerogative to the War on TerrorAnthony Gregory20134 pts1 wins1 listsThe Independent InstitutePolitics & GovernmentWorld War Ii+3
What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II FranceMary Louise Roberts20134 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressWar & MilitaryClimate, Weather & Disaster+3
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All awards · Topic: World War Ii · Sorted by score · 245 books · filtered