Resource Library

Whether you’re a World War II scholar or just getting started, we can help. We’ve compiled a list of books, movies, travel tours and Web sites that feature detailed information about different aspects of the war – such as the Pacific front, resistance fighters, the Holocaust or D-Day – to help you expand your knowledge of World War II.

 

Travel Tours

 

Search WWII Military Records

 

Web Resources

 

Movies/Mini-Series/Documentaries

  • The Longest Day
  • Patton
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • The Great Escape
  • Schindler’s List
  • A Bridge Too Far
  • Battle of Britain
  • Twelve O’Clock High
  • The War
  • Downfall
  • Das Boot
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Band of Brothers (HBO)
  • Battleground
  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • Stalag 17
  • The Pacific (HBO)

Books

  • Forgotten Wings: Gliders in Normandy and Southern France
  • Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest by Stephen Ambrose
  • An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
  • Miracle at Midway by Gordon Prange, Donald Goldstein and Katherine Dillon
  • The Thin Red Line by James Jones
  • Citizen Soldiers: The U. S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany by Stephen Ambrose
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
  • Night by Elie Wiesel
  • Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
  • With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
  • The Zoo Keepers Wife

 

WWII Groups

 

WWII Museums

  • Pacific War Museum - Fredericksburg
  • D-Day Museum - New Orleans
  • Holocaust Museum - DC/New York
  • Imperial War Museum - London