Ardennes 1944, Hitler's Last Gamble

Antony Beevor (Penguin)

Armageddon, The Battle for Germany 1944-45

Max Hastings (Pan)

Barbarossa, The Russian-German Conflict 1941-1945

Alan Clark (W&N)

Berlin, The Downfall 1945

Antony Beevor (Penguin)

Citizen Soldiers

Stephen E Ambrose (Simon & Schuster)

D-Day, The Battle for Normandy

Antony Beevor (Penguin)

Dunkirk, Fight to the Last Man

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore (Penguin)

My Opposition: the diary of a German against the Third Reich

Robert Scott Kellner (Editor) (Cambridge)

Nemesis, The Battle for Japan 1944-45

Max Hastings (William Collins)

Stalingrad

Antony Beevor (Penguin)

For a comprehensive account of the rise of Nazism, look no further than the masterly trilogy by Richard J Evans (Penguin):

• The Coming of the Third Reich
• The Third Reich in Power
• The Third Reich at War