Garrett Graff's new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky , is an oral history of the first atomic bomb. Below, the best-selling author of The Threat Matrix , The Only Plane in the Sky , and Watergate: A New History recommends six World War II books.

'Tower of Skulls' by Richard B. Frank (2020)

This first volume of a coming trilogy traces the first five years of Japan 's war in East Asia, all but the final months occurring before the U.S. entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Tower of Skulls will forever reframe how most Americans understand the war's roots and scope. Buy it here .

'Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers' by James D. Hornfischer (2004)

This is an incredibly detailed and propulsive narrative that captures one of the great naval battles of the wa

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