Books and Memoirs

Adams, Michael C. C. The Best War Ever: America and World War II. 2nd ed. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015

Atkinson, Rick. An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943. Henry Holt & Co., 2003

Blumenson, Martin, ed. The Patton Papers, 1940–1945. Houghton Mifflin, 1974

Bryant, Arthur. The Turn of the Tide, 1939–1943. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/turnoftide0000arth. Collins, 1957

Butler, J. R. M., et al. Grand Strategy. Vol. 2. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/grandstrategy02butl. H.M. Stationery Office, 1976

Carver, Michael. The War Lords. Pen & Sword Military Classics, 2005

Cleaver, Thomas McKelvey. Turning the Tide. Osprey Publishing, 2024

Coetzee, Frans, and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee. The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook. Oxford University Press, 2010

Crimp, R.L. The Diary of a Desert Rat. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/diaryofdesertrat0000rlcr/mode/2up. MacMillan, 1974

Fenby, Jonathan. The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved. Skyhorse, 2012

Fraser, David. Knight’s Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Harper Collins, 1994

Fritzsche, Peter. 1942: When War Engulfed the Globe. Basic Books, 2025

Holland, James. The Allies Strike Back, 1941–1943. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2017

Jenkins, Roy. Churchill. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2001

Labrune, Gérard, and Philippe Toutain. L’histoire de France. Nathan, 1998

Martin, James. The GI War, 1941–1945. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/giwar1941194500mart_gf0 Little, Brown, 1967

McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/sisterhoodofspie00mcin Dell, 1999

Moore, Stephen L. Patton’s Payback: The Battle of El Guettar and General Patton’s Rise to Glory. Dutton Caliber, 2022

Nagorski, Andrew. The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War II. Accessed at: https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2007017053-s.html

Olson, Lynne. Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour. Random House, 2011

Popkin, Jeremy D. A History of Modern France. Routledge, 2020

Smithsonian: World War II. DK, 2015.

Showalter, Dennis. Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century. Berkley, 2005

Walter, John. Blue Water War. Accessed at Google Books. Casemate Publishers, 2022

Primary Sources, Diaries, and Official Documents

• North Africa: For All Members of United States Expeditionary Forces in North Africa. U.S. military pamphlet distributed to troops participating in Operation Torch. Imperial War Museums collection record.

• Operation Torch, North Africa Campaign. Defense Technical Information Center. Cited pages 60–62.

• United States Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1942, Vol. II, document 428. Document.

• United States Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1942, Vol. II, document 454. Document.

• Bolté, Charles. “Now We Have Waited Long Enough.” Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, June 1941. Archive.

• Irwin, Wallace, Jr. Poem about General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim and the surrender in Tunisia, May 1943. Reproduced in James Martin’s The GI War, 1941–1945. Digitized text.

Newspaper Articles and Periodicals

• “Marcel-Bruno Gensoul Is Dead.” The New York Times, January 5, 1974. Article.

• “British Bells Hail Victory in Tunisia.” The New York Times, May 17, 1943. Article.

• “Von Arnim Refused Surrender Terms; Captured by Indian Troops.” The New York Times, May 14, 1943. Article.

• “Espionage: A Blonde Bond.” Time, December 20, 1963. Article.

Historical Websites, Museums, and Research Organizations

• American Battle Monuments Commission. “North Africa Campaign: Remembering the Fight at El Guettar.” Article.

• Australian War Memorial. “Tobruk.” Article.

• BBC. “The Tunisian Campaign.” Article.

• Eisenhower Foundation. Omar Bradley biography.

• Generals.dk. “Mark Wayne Clark.” Biography.

• Imperial War Museums. “What Was the Battle of Crete?” Article.

• Imperial War Museums. Collection records:

  • Cedric Swinton Holland portrait — National Portrait Gallery.

  • Bernard Montgomery portrait/collection record.

  • British 25-pounder artillery collection record.

  • German Walther P38 pistol collection record.

  • Winston Churchill’s Mansion House speech collection record.

• Imperial War Museums. “Lives of the First World War: Bernard Montgomery.” Record.

• Library of Congress. “George S. Patton Diaries: Timeline.” Article.

• Luton Libraries. R. L. Crimp catalog search. Catalog record.

• National WWII Museum:

  • “Over the Cauldron: The Ploesti American Air War in Romania.” Article.

  • “U.S. II Corps at El Guettar.” Article.

  • “Operation Flax: April 1943, Severing the German Afrika Korps Lifeline.” Article.

• National WWII Museum. “Operation Torch: Algeria-Morocco Campaign.” Article.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

  • “Balkan Campaign, Spring 1941.” Article.

  • “Erwin Rommel.” Article.

  • “Tunisia Campaign.” Article.

• U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command:

  • Operation Torch booklet. PDF.

  • “Operation Torch.” Historical overview.

• U.S. Department of State. “The Casablanca Conference, 1943.” Historical overview.

• U.S. Military Academy, Department of History. “World War II Europe and Mediterranean, 1942.” Map.

• Jewish Virtual Library. “Background and Overview of the Einsatzgruppen.” Article.

• Royal Irish. “Surrender of Axis Forces in North Africa.” Article.

• Dartmouth Alumni Magazine:

  • “Bolte Wounded.” December 1942. Article.