by Stephen E. Ambrose (1992)
The legendary story of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, fought at Bastogne, and captured Hitler’s Bavarian Eagle’s Nest.
David Halberstam
David Halberstam’s masterwork on the Korean War, portraying the brutal winter battles against Chinese forces, the hubris of General MacArthur, and the ordinary soldiers caught in the opening clash of the Cold War.
Andrew Roberts
Widely acclaimed as the single best one-volume biography of Winston Churchill, utilizing newly released royal diaries and wartime cabinet records to depict the man who saved Western democracy.
John Keegan
A chronological history of each theater of the war, analyzing five battles for their distinctive kind of warfare of the period.
Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder’s monumental investigation of the territory between central Poland and western Russia where Nazi and Soviet regimes murdered fourteen million civilians in twelve murderous years.