D'Este's list of ten books about World War II that deserve to be better known

To top off our all-book Friday file,
it's an honor to present a book list from Carlo
D'Este, one of my favorite historians. Here he offers up a list of books
about World War II that he thinks should be better known.

Carlo adds in a note, "A couple of them (Eisenhower and
Toland) were quite well-known when published but with the passage of time may
be somewhat forgotten but were nevertheless added to the list. It is highly
subjective: there are literally hundreds of fine books that could have been
added; these are merely ten that came immediately to mind and are very worthy."

Later this month D'Este will pick up
a big fat prize for lifetime achievement from the Pritzker
Military Library in Chicago.

Dominick Graham and Shelford Bidwell, Tug
of War: The Battle for Italy, 1943-45


John S.D. Eisenhower, The Bitter Woods: The Battle of the
Bulge


Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Command Missions: A
Personal Story 


Frederick
C Sherman, Combat Command: The American Aircraft Carriers in World War
II


Gerald
R. Pawle, The War and Colonel Warden (about Churchill)


David
Fraser, Alanbrooke


R.W.
Thompson, The Battle of the Rhineland


Way
of a Fighter, The memoirs of Claire Lee Chennault


J.D.
Morelock, Generals of the Ardennes: American Leadership in the Battle
of the Bulge


John
Toland, The Last 100 Days