📚 The Second World War

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The global war in full: campaigns, home fronts, atrocity, and the postwar world it left behind.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject world war, 1939-1945 in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Het Achterhuis	Anne Frank	1944	294
Hiroshima	John Hersey	1702	104
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich	William L. Shirer	1734	94
The Second World War	Winston S. Churchill	1941	76
Berlin diary	William L. Shirer	1941	64
Going Solo	Roald Dahl	1986	57
The Hiding Place	Corrie ten Boom	1971	56
The Second World War, Vol. III	Winston S. Churchill	1950	47
Is Paris Burning	Larry Collins	1901	43
Unbroken	Laura Hillenbrand	2010	31
Band of Brothers	Stephen E. Ambrose	1992	26
Dr. Mengele boncolóorvosa voltam az auschwitzi krematóriumban	Miklós Nyiszli	1960	25
Blitz-kreig	Len Deighton	1979	25
Flyboys	James Bradley	2003	25
Fate is the Hunter	Ernest K. Gann	1961	24
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol 6	Samuel Eliot Morison	1947	23
A Woman in Berlin	Anonymous	1954	23
Das Mädchen Anne Frank	Melissa Müller	1998	23
The Origins of the Second World War	Taylor, A. J. P.	1961	22
The long walk	Slavomir Rawicz	1956	20
Ordinary Men	Christopher R. Browning	1992	20
World War II (DK Eyewitness Books)	Simon Adams	2000	20
In Harm's Way	Doug Stanton	2001	20
War As I Knew It	George S. Patton	1947	19
Crusade in Europe	Dwight D. Eisenhower	1948	17
Quartered Safe Out Here	George MacDonald Fraser	1992	17
"The Good War"	Studs Terkel	1984	16
The Greatest Generation	Tom Brokaw	1998	16
The scourge of the swastika	Russell of Liverpool, Edward Frederick Langley Russell Baron	1954	14
The Second World War	Martin Gilbert	1970	14

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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