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especially anecdotage, from the histories and memoirs most familiar to students of the period. Titles on which I have drawn extensively for my own narrative, or which seem especially noteworthy for further reading, are shown in bold type. I have omitted to detail the multiple volumes of the British and American official histories, which are of course indispensable.

Abbott, Stephen. And All My War Is Done. Pentland, 1991.

Altes, A. K., and In’t Veld, N.K.C.A. The Forgotten Battle: Overlook and the Maas Salient, 1944–45. Spellmount, 1995.

Ambrose, Stephen. Band of Brothers. Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Amery, Leo. My Political Life. Hutchinson, 1955. Vol. 3.

———. The Empire at Bay: The Leo Amery Diaries, 1929–45. Edited by John Barnes and David Nicholson. Hutchinson, 1988.

Anders, Władysław. An Army in Exile. Macmillan, 1949.

Andreas-Friedrich, Ruth. Berlin Underground, 1938–45. New York, 1947.

Anonymous. A Woman in Berlin. Virago, 2009.

Arthur, Douglas. Desert Watch. Blaisdon, 2000.

Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle. Henry Holt, 2007.

Avagliano Mario, ed. Generazione ribelle: Diari e lettere dal 1943 al 1945 a cura di Mario Avagliano. Einaudi Storia, 2006.

Bailey, Roderick, ed. Forgotten Voices of the Secret War. Ebury, 2008.

Ball, Adrian. The Last Days of the Old World. Doubleday, 1963.

Barclay, George. Fighter Pilot. Kimber, 1976.

Barenblatt, Daniel. A Plague upon Humanity. Souvenir, 2004.

Baring, Sarah. The Road to Station X. Wilton 65.

Barnett, Correlli. Engage the Enemy More Closely. Hodder & Stoughton, 1991.

Bayly, Christopher, and Tim Harper. Forgotten Armies. Penguin, 2004.

Beevor, Antony. Stalingrad. Viking, 1998.

———. Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. Penguin, 2002.

Belfield, Eversley, and H. Essame. The Battle for Normandy. London, 1975.

Bellamy, Chris. Absolute War. Macmillan, 2007.

Belov, N. F. Front Diary of N.F. Belov, 1941–44. Vologda, 1997.

Berezhkov, Valentin. Stranitsy Diplomaticheskoy Istorii. Moscow, 1982.

Berle, Beatrice Bishop, and Travis Beal Jacobs. Navigating the Rapids, 1918–1971. Harcourt Brace, 1973.

Bessel, Richard. Germany 1945. Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Biddle, George. Artist at War. New York, 1944.

Birdsall, Steve. Saga of the Superfortress. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981.

Blair, Clay. Hitler’s U-Boat Wars. Random House, 1996.

Bloomfield-Smith, D. C., ed. Fourth Indian Reflections. Larman, 1987.

Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory. Harcourt Brace, 1976.

Blunt, Roscoe. Foot Soldier: A Combat Infantryman’s War in Europe. Da Capo Press, 2002.

Blythe, Ronald, ed. Components of the Scene. Penguin, 1966.

———. Private Words. Viking, 1991.

Borthwick, Alastair. Battalion. Baton Wicks, 1994.

Bower, Tom. Nazi Gold. HarperCollins, 1997.

Bowlby, Alex. Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby. Leo Cooper, 1969.

Braithwaite, Roderic. Moscow 1941. Profile, 2006.

Branson, Clive. British Soldier in India: The Letters of Clive Branson. Communist Party, London, 1944.

Broadfoot, Barry, ed. Six War Years. Toronto, 1974.

Brontman, Lazar. Voenny dnevnik korrespondenta “Pravdy” [War Diary of the Pravda Correspondent]. Moscow, 2007.

Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men. Penguin, 1998.

Bryant, Arthur. The Turn of the Tide. Collins, 1957.

Bungay, Stephen. The Most Dangerous Enemy. Aurum, 2010.

Burgett, Donald. Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne. Dell, 1999.

Burleigh, Michael. Moral Combat. HarperCollins, 2010.

Busatti, Franco. Dal Volturno a Cassino. RSI website.

Calvocoressi, Peter, Guy Wint and John Pritchard. Total War. Viking, 1972.

Carlton de Wiart, Adrian. Happy Odyssey. Jonathan Cape, 1950.

Caruso, Patrick. Nightmare on Iwo. Naval Institute Press, 2001.

Cheek, Tom. A Ring of Coral. Battle of Midway Roundtable, http//home.comcast.net/r2russ/midway.ringcoral.htm.

Chin Kee On. Malaya Upside Down. Singapore, 1946.

Ciano, Galleazo. Diaries, 1937–43. Edited by Redonzo de Felice. Milan, 1980.

Cole, David. Rough Road to Rome. Kimber, 1983.

Collingham, Lizzie. The Taste of War. Allen Lane, 2011.

Colvin, John. Nomonhan. Quartet, 1999.

Cooper, Artemis. Cairo in the War. Hamish