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Selected Books on World War II

Abbazia, Patrick
Mr. Roosevelt's Navy: The Private War of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, 1939-1942 . Naval Institute Press, 1975.
Bailey, Thomas A.
Hitler vs. Roosevelt: The Undeclared Naval War . Free Press, 1979.
Beard, Charles A.
President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: A Study in Appearances and Realities . Yale University Press, 1948.
Bennett, Edward M.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Victory: American-Soviet Relations, 1939-1945 . SR Books, 1990.
Berthon, Simon.
Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle . Carroll & Graf, 2001.
Beschloss, Michael.
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 . Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Blum, John M.
From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of War, 1941-1945 . Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
Burns, James M.
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom . Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970.
Casey, Steven.

Cautious Crusade; Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany . Oxford University Press, 2001.

Cole, Wayne S.
Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-1945 . University of Nebraska Press, 1983.
Dallek, Robert.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy: 1932-1945 . Oxford University Press, 1979.
Davis, Kenneth S.
FDR: The War President, 1940-1943 . Random House, 2000.
Divine, Robert A.
Roosevelt and World War II . Johns Hopkins Press, 1969.
Doenecke, Justus D.
The Battle against Intervention, 1939-1941 . Krieger, 1997.
Storm on the Horizon; the Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941 . Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
Edmonds, Robin.
The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in Peace and War . Norton, 1991.
Eubank, Keith.
Summit at Teheran . William Morrow, 1985.
Fehrenbach, T.R.
F.D.R.'s Undeclared War, 1939 to 1941 . D. McKay, 1967.
Feis, Herbert.
China Tangle; the American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission . Princeton University Press, 1953.
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought . Princeton University Press, 1957.
The Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War between the United States and Japan . Princeton University Press, 1950.
Ferrell, Robert H.
The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945 . University of Missouri Press, 1998.
Fleming, Thomas J.
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II . Basic Books, 2001.
Freidel, Frank.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny . Little, 1990.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns.
No Ordinary Time . Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Graham, Otis L., ed.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Life & Times: An Encyclopedic View . G.K. Hall, 1985.
Gunther, John.
Roosevelt in Retrospect, a Profile in History . Harper, 1950.
Hearden, Patrick J.
Roosevelt Confronts Hitler: America's Entry into World War II . Northern Illinois University Press, 1986.
Herzstein, Robert E.
Roosevelt and Hitler: Prelude to War . Paragon House, 1989.
Hough, Richard A.
The Greatest Crusade: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Naval Wars . Morrow, 1986.
Kennedy, David.
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 . Oxford University Press, 1999.
Kimball, Warren F.
Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence . Princeton University Press, 1984.
Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill and the Second World War . W. Morrow, 1996.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the World Crisis, 1937-1945 . Heath, 1973.
The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman . Princeton University Press, 1991.
Kinsella, William E.
Leadership in Isolation: FDR and the Origins of the Second World War . G.K. Hall, 1978.
Langer, William L.
The Challenge to Isolation, 1937-1940 . Harper, 1952.
The Undeclared War, 1940-1941 . Harper, 1953.
Larrabee, Eric
Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War . Harper & Row, 1987.
Lash, Joseph P.
Roosevelt & Churchill, 1939-1941: The Partnership that Saved the West . Norton, 1976.
Layton, Edwin T.
"And I Was There:" Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets . Morrow, 1985.
Loewenheim, Francis, ed.
Roosevelt and Churchill, Their Secret Wartime Correspondence . Saturday Review Press, 1975.
Melosi, Martin V.
The Shadow of Pearl Harbor: Political Controversy over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946 . Texas A&M University Press, 1977.
Millis, Walter
This Is Pearl! The United States and Japan - 1941 . W. Morrow, 1947.
Perlmutter, Amos
FDR and Stalin: A Not So Grand Alliance, 1943-1945 . University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Persico, Joseph E.
Roosevelt's Secret War; FDR and World War II Espionage . Random House, 2001.
Prange, Gordon W.
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor . McGraw-Hill, 1981.
Reynolds, David
From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War . Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
Schroeder, Paul W.
The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941 . Cornell University Press, 1958.
Sherwood, Robert E.
Roosevelt and Hopkins, an Intimate History . Harper, 1948.
Smith, Stanley H.
Investigations of the Attack on Pearl Harbor: Index to Government Hearings . Greenwood Press, 1990.
Spector, Ronald H.
Eagle Against the Sun . Free Press, 1985.
Stafford, David
Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets . Overlook Press, 1999.
Stettinius, Edward R.
Roosevelt and the Russians; the Yalta Conference . Doubleday, 1949.
Stinnett, Robert B.
Day of Deceit: The Truth About Pearl Harbor . Free Press, 1999.
Stoler, Mark A.
Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U.S. Strategy in World War II . University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Tanaka, Shelley
Attack on Pearl Harbor; The True Story of the Day America Entered World War II . Hyperion/Madison Press, 2001.
Tansill, Charles C.
Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941 . Henry Regnery, 1952.
Taylor, Myron
Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII . Macmillan, 1947.
Thompson, Robert S.
A Time for War: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor . Prentice Hall Press, 1991.
Thorne, Christopher G.
Allies of a Kind: the United States, Britain and the War against Japan, 1941-1945 . Oxford University Press, 1978.
Toland, John
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath . Doubleday, 1982.
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 . Random House, 1970.
U.S. Congress
Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack . U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. 39 volumes.
Weinberg, Gerhard L.
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II . Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Weintraub, Stanley
Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941 . Dutton, 1991.
Wilson, Theodore A.
The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941 . University Press of Kansas, 1991.
Wohlstetter, Roberta
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision . Stanford University Press, 1962.
Worth, Roland H., Jr.
Pearl Harbor: Selected Testimonies, Fully Indexed, from the Congressional Hearings (1945-1946) and Prior Investigations of the Events Leading up to the Attack . McFarland, 1993.

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