{"id":40367,"count":38,"description":"Five Books has extensive coverage of World War II. Antony Beevor recommends\u00a0his best books on World War II<\/a> as a whole, but we also have interviews dedicated to specific battles. Anna Reid recommends the\u00a0best books on the horrific Siege of Leningrad<\/a>. Simon Ball recommends the best books on El Alamein<\/a>. We also have a collection of \u00a0D-Day books<\/a> and of the bombing of Pearl Harbor<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOne of the most brilliant accounts of World War II from a Russian perspective is the novel Life and Fate<\/em> by Vasily Grossman.<\/a> It's been recommended by a number of our interviewees as a great read, including the late and great military historian Michael Howard. Also a must-read is Ordinary Men<\/em> by Christopher Browning,<\/a> for its insight into how \u201cordinary\u201d Germans got involved in perpetrating the Holocaust<\/a> in Eastern Europe.\r\n\r\nNo account of World War 2 is complete without some of the memoirs of people who lived during it. The Diary of Anne Frank,<\/em><\/a> which many of us read as teenagers, remains unmissable, as is Maus<\/em><\/a>, the graphic novel Art Spiegelman wrote about his father's experience in Poland. Other heartbreaking memoirs are Elie Wiesel's Night\u00a0<\/em>and Primo Levi's If this is a Man.<\/em><\/a> Less well-known but twice recommended on Five Books is A Woman in Berlin.<\/em><\/a>\r\n\r\nIf you prefer reading novels, we also have a section dedicated to World War 2 historical fiction.\u00a0<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/history-books\/modern-history\/world-war-2\/","name":"World War 2","slug":"world-war-2","taxonomy":"category","parent":11584,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/40367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11584"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=40367"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=40367"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=40367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}