Personal Library

Introduction

This is a list of books in my personal library. Books dating to the World War II–era have been listed separately. More books that I would like to have can be found on my Amazon wish list.

Military

• 1962 United States Aircraft Missiles and Spacecraft. Washington, D.C.: National Aviation Education Council, n.d.
• Adams, Simon. World War II. New York: Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2004.
• Angelucci, Enzo, Paolo Matricardi, and Pierluigi Pinto. Complete Book of World War II Combat Aircraft: Wiht [Sic] Full-Color Illustrations of Every Fighting Plane from 1933-1945, Including Bombers, Fighters, Assault Aircraft, and Many More. Italy: White Star Publishers, 2000.
• Apple, Nick P., and Gene Gurney. The Air Force Museum. New, Revised, and Expanded. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978.
• Ballard, Robert D., and Rick Archbold. The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal. New York: Warner Books, 1993.
• Baron, Alexander. From the City, from the Plough. London: Black Spring, 2010.
• Belyakov, R. A., and J. Marmain. MiG: Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994.
• Berman, Robert P. Rockets & Missiles of World War III. New York: Exeter Books, 1983.
• Birdsall, Steve. Log of the Liberators: An Illustrated History of the B-24. Book Club. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1973.
• Bishop, Chris. The Encyclopedia of World Sea Power. New York: Crescent Books, 1988.
• Bowen, Elizabeth. The Heat of the Day. 1st Anchor Books. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.
• Bowman, Steven B. Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece. London ; Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2006.
• Boyne, Walter J. The Aircraft Treasures of Silver Hill: The Behind-the-Scenes Workshop of Our Nation’s Air Museum. New York: Rawson Associates, 1982.
• Breuer, William B. Bizarre Tales from World War II. Edison, NJ: Castle Books, 2005.
• Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperPerennial, 1998.
• Coggan, Paul. Mustang Survivors. Leicester, England: Midland Publishing, 2003.
• ———. P-51 Mustang Restored. Enthusiast Color Series. Osceola, WI: Motorbooks International, 1995.
• Coggins, Jack. The Campaign for Guadalcanal: A Battle That Made History. Book Club. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972.
• Davenport, Robert Ralsey. The World War II Quiz Book: Over 1,700 Questions and Answers to Test Your Knowledge of History’s Most Compelling Conflict. Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Pub, 2009.
• Davis, William C., Bell Irvin Wiley, and National Historical Society. Civil War Album: Complete Photographic History of the Civil War : Fort Sumter to Appomattox. New York: Tess Press, 2000.
• D-Day: 24 Hours That Saved the World. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Time Books, 2004.
• Diagram Group. The New Weapons of the World Encyclopedia: An International Encyclopedia from 5000 B.C. to the 21st Century. New York: St Martin’s Griffin, 2007.
• Dowswell, Paul. True Stories of the Second World War. London, England: Usborne Publishing, 2003.
• Drendel, Lou. Aircraft of the Vietnam War. Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1980.
• Duval, Godfrey Richard, ed. Aviation Workhorses Around the World. Truro, Cornwall: D. Bradford Barton Limited, 1977.
• Eden, Paul E. Encyclopedia of Modern Military Aircraft. London: Amber Books Ltd., 2006.
• Endres, Günter G., Michael J. Gething, and Smithsonian Institution. Jane’s Aircraft Recognition Guide. London; New York: Collins, 2007.
• English, June, and Tom Jones. Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War. New York: Scholastic, 1998.
• Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. Warships & Sea Battles of World War I. New York: Beekman House, 1973.
• Fleischman, John. Black and White Airmen: Their True History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
• Forty, George. The Illustrated Guide to Tanks of the World. London: Hermes House, 2006.
• Foss, Christopher F. Jane’s Tank Recognition Guide. London: Collins, 2006.
• Francis, Devon Earl. Mr. Piper and His Cubs. First. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1973.
• General Electric Company, ed. Seven Decades of Progress: A Heritage of Aircraft Turbine Technology. Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers, 1979.
• Giangreco, D. M. Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-47. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009.
• Green, William. Famous Fighters of the Second World War. Vol. One. 8 vols. First. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967.
• Green, William, and Gordon Swanborough. The Observer’s Soviet Aircraft Directory. London ; New York: F. Warne, 1975.
• Grossman, Vasiliĭ Semenovich, Antony Beevor, and Luba Vinogradova. A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945. New York: Vintage books, 2007.
• Gunston, Bill, and Mike Spick. Modern Air Combat: The Aircraft, Tactics and Weapons Employed in Aerial Warfare Today. New York: Crescent Books, 1983.
• ———. The Encyclopedia of World Air Power. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.
• Gutman, Roy, David Rieff, and Anthony Gary Dworkin, eds. Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know. 2nd, Rev. and updated ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2007.
• Haffner, Sebastian. Defying Hitler: A Memoir. New York: Picador, 2003.
• Hagedorn, Dan. North American’s T-6: A Definitive History of the World’s Most Famous Trainer. North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 2009.
• Haskew, Michael E. Postwar Armored Fighting Vehicles: 1945-Present. Essential Vehicle Identification Guide. London: Amber Books, 2010.
• Heatley, C. J. The Cutting Edge. Charlottesville, VA: Thomasson, Grant & Howell, 1986.
• Hogg, Ian V. Military Small Arms of the 20th Century. 7th ed. Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2000.
• Höhne, Heinz. The Order of the Death’s Head: The Story of Hitler’s SS. Classic Military History. London ; New York: Penguin Books, 2000.
• Hornfischer, James D. Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal. 1st ed. New York: Bantam Books, 2011.
• ———. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the US Navy’s Finest Hour. New York: Bantam Dell, 2005.
• Hough, Richard Alexander. Dreadnought, a History of the Modern Battleship. First. Toronto, Ontario: The Macmillan Company, 1964.
• Howard, Frank, and Bill Gunston. The Conquest of the Air. First American. New York: Random House, 1972.
• Hruska, Benjamin J. Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites. Interpreting History. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.
• Humble, Richard. U.S. Navy. New York, NY: Arco, 1985.
• Hutchinson, Robert, and Keith Faulkner. Jane’s Warship Recognition Guide. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
• Irincheev, Bair, and Denis Zhukov. Target Leningrad: Offensive of Army Group North in 1941. Bair Travels, 2011.
• Jackson, Daniel. Fallen Tigers: The Fate of America’s Missing Airmen in China During World War II. Aviation and Air Power. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2021.
• Jackson, Robert. Combat Aircraft Prototypes Since 1945. New York: Arco/Prentice Hall Press, 1986.
• ———, ed. The Encyclopedia of Warships: From World War II to the Present Day. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2006.
• Jordan, David, and Andrew A. Wiest. Atlas of World War II: Over 160 Detailed Battle & Campaign Maps. New York: Barnes & Noble, Inc., 2004.
• Jornlin, Robert D. Bringing Back a Hero. Edited by D. L. Larson. Earlville, Illinois: Jornlin Farm, 2014.
• Keegan, John. The Second World War. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
• Kershaw, Alex. Escape from the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew. Philadelphia, PA: Da Capo Press, 2008.
• ———. Racing Planes & Air Races, 1909-1967. First. Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers, Inc., n.d.
• ———. Racing Planes & Air Races, 1968-1971. First. Fallbrook, California: Aero Publishers, Inc., n.d.
• Kirk, John G. Great Weapons of World War II. New York: Walker, 1991.
• Kurzman, Dan. Left to Die: The Tragedy of the USS Juneau. New York: Pocket Books, 1994.
• Last, Nella. Nella Last’s War: The Second World War Diaries of “Housewife, 49.” Edited by Richard Broad and Suzie Fleming. London: Profile Books, 2006.
• Lyall, Gavin, ed. The War in the Air: The  Royal Air Force in World War II. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969.
• Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Seapower upon History: 1660-1783. American Century. New York: Sagamore Press Inc., 1957.
• Makos, Adam, and Larry Alexander. A Higher Call. Berkey Caliber Trade Paperback. New York: Berkley Books, 2014.
• Mass-Observation. Our Longest Days: A People’s History of the Second World War. Edited by Sandra Koa Wing. London: Profile Books, 2008.
• McCarthy, Donald J. MiG Killers: A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories in Vietnam, 1965-1973. North Branch, MN: Specialty Press, 2009.
• McComb, Dave. US Destroyers 1934-45: Pre-War Classes. New Vanguard 162. Oxford: Osprey, 2010.
• McDonnell, Leslie. East versus West. New York: Gallery Books, 1986.
• Mikesh, Robert C. Restoring Museum Aircraft. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Military History, 2009.
• Miller, David. The Illustrated Directory of Submarines of the World. St. Paul, MN: MBI Pub. Co, 2002.
• Miller, David, and Chris Miller. Modern Naval Combat. New York: Crescent Books, 1986.
• Mission Vietnam. San Francisco, CA: Directorate of Information, Headquarters, Seventh Air Force, n.d.
• Moench, John O. Marauder Men: An Account of the Martin B-26 Marauder. Revised. Longwood, Florida: Malia Enterprises, 1999.
• Mondey, David. All Color World of Aircraft. London: Octopus Books Limited, 1978.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963.
• Moses, Sam. At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Marines Reversed the Tide of World War Ii. First. New York: Random House, 2006.
• Munro, Colin, Page Shamburger, Joe Christy, and Peter M. Bowers. Soviet Air Forces, The Curtiss Hawk Fighters, Classic Military Airplanes. Modern Aircraft, 1972.
• Noel, John V., ed. The Bluejackets’ Manual. Fifteenth. Annapolis, Maryland: United States Naval Institute., 1959.
• Ogden, Bob. Great Aircraft Collections of the World. New York City: Gallery Books, 1986.
• Overy, R. J. Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet War Effort, 1941-1945. Penguin Books, 1997.
• ———. The Air War, 1939-1945. First Scarborough Books. Briarcliff Manor, NY: Scarborough House, 1982.
• ———. The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945. New York: Viking Penguin, 2013.
• Padfield, Peter. War beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict during World War II. New York: John Wiley, 1996.
• Palmer, Henry R. This Was Air Travel. New York: Bonanza Books, 1962.
• Pitassi, Michael. The Navies of Rome. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2009.
• Plokhy, Serhii. Yalta: The Price of Peace. New York: Viking, 2010.
• Prange, Gordon W. Miracle at Midway. Edited by Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982.
• Prange, Gordon William. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981.
• Preston, Antony. Aircraft Carriers. New York: Galahad Books, 1982.
• Preston, Antony, and Fred T. Jane. Jane’s Fighting Ships of World War II. London: Studio Editions, 2001.
• Remarque, Erich Maria. All quiet on the Western front, 1982.
• Richardson, Doug. Stealth Warplanes. Osceola, WI: MBI Publishing Company, 2001.
• Ries, Karl. The Luftwaffe: A Photographic Record, 1919-1945. Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Aero, 1987.
• Roberts, John Arthur. The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid. Anatomy of the Ship. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1982.
• Rose, Sonya O. Which People’s War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Britain 1939-1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Schofield, William G. Destroyers: 60 Years. New York: Bonanza Books, 1962.
• Shelton, Robert. Team Stealth F-117. Stillwater, MN: Speciality Press Publishers, 1993.
• Simonsen, Erik. Project Terminated: Famous Military Aircraft Cancellations of the Cold War and What Might Have Been. Manchester: Crecy, 2013.
• Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa. Presido press trade pbk. New York: Presidio Press, 2010.
• Smelser, Ronald M. The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Smith, Peter C. Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. Ramsbury, Marlborough: Crowood Press, 2000.
• Stille, Mark. USN Carriers vs. IJN Carriers: The Pacific, 1942. Duel 6. Oxford ; New York: Osprey Pub, 2007.
• ———. USN Cruiser vs IJN Cruiser: Guadalcanal, 1942. Osprey Duel. Oxford ; New York: Osprey, 2009.
• Stoff, Joshua. Historic Aircraft and Spacecraft in the Cradle of Aviation Museum. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2015.
• Suermondt, Jan. Infantry Weapons of World War II. New York: Chartwell Books, 2012.
• Sunzi. The Art of War: Complete Texts and Commentaries. 1st ed. Boston: Shambhala, 2003.
• Sweetman, Bill. Inside the Stealth Bomber. Motorbooks ColorTech. Osceola, WI: MBI Pub. Co, 1999.
• Symonds, Craig L. The Civil War at Sea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Tanaka, Shelley. Attack on Pearl Harbor: The True Story of the Day America Entered World War II. 1st U.S. New York: Hyperion Books For Children, 2001.
• Tanaka, Shelley, and David Craig. D-Day: They Fought to Free Europe from Hitler’s Tyranny. New York: Scholastic, 2003.
• Taylor, John W. R., ed. The Lore of Flight. New York, New York: Crescent Books, 1978.
• The Encyclopedia of Sea Warfare : From the First Ironclads to the Present Day. New York, New York: Thomas Y Crowell Company, 1975.
• The World’s Great Attack Aircraft. New York: Gallery Books, 1988.
• Thompson, Scott A. B-17 in Blue: The Flying Fortress in U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard Service. Elk Grove, CA: Aero Vintage Books, 1993.
• ———. B-25 Mitchell in Civil Service. Elk Grove, California: Aero Vintage Books, 1997.
• U.S. Army-Navy Journal of Recognition: September 1943-February 1944, Numbers 1-6. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
• Visions of Victory. New York, NY: Time Books, 2010.
• V-J Day: America’s World War II Triumph in the Pacific. New York, NY: Time Books, 2005.
• Veronico, Nick. Hidden Warbirds: The Epic Stories of Finding, Recovering, and Rebuilding WWII’s Lost Aircraft. Minneapolis, MN: Zenith Press, 2013.
• Wagner, Ray. The North American Sabre. Doubleday. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1963.
• Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. 4th ed. New York: Basic Books, 2006.
• Werner, Herbert A. Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II. Second. Canada: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
• Whempner, Robert J. Corporate Aviation. McGraw-Hill Series in Aviation. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
• Williamson, Gordon, and Darko Pavlovic. Wolf Pack: The U-Boat Story in World War 2. Oxford: Osprey, 2005.
• Winchester, Jim, ed. Aircraft of World War II. The Aviation Factfile. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2004.

Vintage Military

• Aircraft Design Sketch Book. Burbank, California: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 1940.
• Baker, George. The Sad Sack. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944.
• Banning, Kendall. Submarine!: The Story of Undersea Fighters. New York: Random House, 1942.
• Cima, Anthony P. The Thrilling Story of Boeing’s B-29 Superfortress. New York, NY: Playmore, 1944.
• Collison, Thomas. Flying Fortress: The Story of the Boeing Bomber. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1943.
• Cooke, David C. War Planes of the Axis. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1942.
• ———. War Wings: Fighting Planes of the American and British Air Forces. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1941.
• De Seversky, Alexander P. Victory Through Air Power. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942.
• Friedheim, Eric, and Samuel W. Taylor. Fighters Up: The Story of American Fighter Pilots in the Battle of Europe. Edited by Arthur Gordon. Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1945.
• G-I’ve Been Around. New York, NY: C. S. Hammond & Co., 1945.
• Hartney, Harold E., ed. Aircraft Spotter’s Guide. National Aeronautics Council, 1942.
• ———. Aircraft Spotter’s Guide. Dunellen, NJ: National Aeronautics Council, 1942.
• How to Identify Warplanes: Friend or Enemy. Richfield Oil Corporation of New York, 1942.
• Karig, Walter, Earl Burton, and Stephen L. Freeland. Battle Report: The Atlantic War. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1946.
• Kinert, Reed. America’s Fighting Planes in Action. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943.
• Law, Bernard A. Fighting Planes of the World. New and Revised. New York: Random House, 1942.
• Lessons That Live, n.d.
• Madden, Paul, and Pete Martin. Survivor. Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1944.
• Mauldin, Bill. Up Front. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945.
• Morris, Herman C., and Harry B. Henderson, eds. World War II in Pictures. Vol. I. New York, NY: The Greystone Press, 1945.
• Ott, Lester. Aircraft Spotter. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1941.
• Penfield, Thomas. Wings for America. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1943.
• Pitkin, Walter. What’s That Plane: The Handbook for Practical Aircraft Recognition. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1942.
• Romulo, Carlos P. I Saw the Fall of the Philippines. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1943.
• Savage, Mark. How Planes Fight and Bomb. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1943.
• Saville-Sneath, R. A. British Aircraft. First Annual. Vol. One. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1944.
• ———. British Aircraft. First Annual. Vol. Two. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1944.
• Sears, Hugh. What’s New in the Air Corps: Close-Ups of Its Latest Equipment. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943.
• The Officer’s Guide. June 1944. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Military Service Publishing Company, 1944.
• Walker, John B. A Guide to American Airplanes. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1940.
• ———. War in the Air: Fighting Planes and Pilots in Action. New York: Random House, 1941.
• ———. War Planes of All Nations. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1940.
• ———. War Planes of the World. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1943.
• Wallace, James F. War Planes in Action. Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1942.
• Winston, Robert A. Dive Bomber: Learning to Fly the Navy’s Fighting Planes. New York City: Holiday House, 1941.
• Wolfert, Ira. American Guerilla in the Philippines. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1945.