History Courses For

German Armed Forces

• Larry Addington. The Blitzkreig Era and the German General Staff 1865-1941. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1971.
• Omer Bartov. Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in The Third Reich. New York: Oxford, 1991.
• Clay Blair, Jr. Hitler's U-Boat War: the Hunters, 1939-1942. New York: Random House, 1996.
• . Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942-1945. New York: Random House, 1998.
• Andre Brissaud. Canaries: The Biography of Admiral Canaris, Chief of German Military Intelligence in the Second World War. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1974.
• Carl Boyd. Hitler's Japanese Confidant: General Ohima Hiroshi and Magic Intelligence, 1941-1945. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
• Paul Carell. Scorched Earth: Hitler's War on Russia. London: Harrap, 1970.
• Matthew Cooper. The German Army 1933-1945: Its Political and Military Failure. New York: Bonanza, 1984.
• James S. Corum. The Roots of Blizkrieg. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 1992.
• Peter Cremer. U-Boat Commander: A Periscope View of the Battle of the Atlantic. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984.
• Adolf Galland. The First and the Last. New York: Bantam, 1954.
• Richard Giziowski. The Enigma of General Blaskowitz. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.
• Michael Gannon. Operation Drumbeat: The Dramatic True Story of Germany's First U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II. New York: Harper and Row, 1990.
• . Black May: The Epic Story of the Allies' Defeat of the German U-Boats in May 1943. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
• D. J. Goodspeed. The German Wars, 1914-1945. New York: Bonanza Books, 1985.
• Heinz Guderian. Panzer Leader. New York: Dutton, 1951.
• Max Hastings. Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division through France. New York: Henry Holt, 1981.
• Helmut Heiber and David Glantz. Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences 1942-1945. New York: Enigma Books, 2003.
• David Irving. Hitler's War. New York: Viking, 1977.
• Wilhelm Keitel. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel. New York: Stein & Day, 1961.
• Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw. Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier 1936-1949. New York: Orion Books, 1992.
• Ronald Lewin. Hitler's Mistakes. New York: Morrow, 1984.
• Heinz Magenheimer. Hitler's War: Germany's Key Strategic Decisions, 1940-1945. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1997.
• Erich von Manstein. Lost Victories. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1955, 1982.
• Herbert Molly Mason, Jr. The Rise of the Luftwaffe: Forging the Secret German Air Weapons 1918-1940. New York: Ballantine,1973.
• F.W. von Mellenthin. Panzer Battles: A Study of the Employment of Armor in the Second World War. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955.
• Burkard Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg. Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story. Expanded Edition. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1980, 1990.
• Timothy Mulligan. Lone Wolf: The Life and Death of U-Boat Ace Werner Henke. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1993.
• . Neither Sharks Nor Wolves: The Men of Nazi Germany's U-Boat Arm 1939-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
• Williamson Murray. Strategy For Defeat: The Luftwaffe 1933-1945. Washington, DC: GPO, 1983.
• . Luftwaffe. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation, 1985.
• . German Military Effectiveness. Baltimore: Nautical & Aviation, 1992.
• Michael J. Neufeld. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemude and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: Free Press,1995.
• Peter Neuman. The Black March: The Personal Story of an SS Man. New York: Bantam, 1958.
• Jacques Nobecourt. Hitler's Last Gamble: The Battle of the Bulge. New York: Schocken, 1967.
• Guy Sajer. The Forgotten Soldier. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
• Walter Schellenberg. Hitler's Secret Service. New York: Pyramid,1956.
• Alexander Stahlberg. Bounded Duty; The Memoirs of a German Officer 1932-45. New York: Brassey's, 1990.
• George H. Stein. The Waffen SS: Hitler's Elite Guard at War 1939-1945. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1966.
• Charles W. Sydnor, Jr. Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
• Telford Taylor. Sword & Swastika: Generls and Nazis in the Third Reich. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1952.
• John Terraine. The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945. New York: Putnams,1989.
• Raymond F. Toliver and Trevor J. Constable. The Blond Knight of Germany. New York: Bantam, 1970.
• H. R. Trevor-Roper, ed. Blitzkrieg To Defeat: Hitler's War Directives 1939-1945. New York: Holt Rinehart Winston,1964.
• Martin van Crevald. Fighting Power: German and U.S. Army Performance, 1939-1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,1982.
• . Hitler's Strategy, 1940-1941: The Balkan Cue. New York: Cambridge, 1973.
• Jordan Vause. U-Boat Ace: The Story of Wolfgang Luth. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1990.
• Herbert A. Werner. Iron Coffins: A personal account of the German U-Boat battles of World War II. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
• J. W. Wheeler-Bennett. The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1951.