Ian Kershaw: Names riveting works that depict major decisions of World War II

1. "How War Came" by Donald Cameron Watt (Pantheon, 1989).

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2. "The Road to Stalingrad" by John Erickson (Harper & Row, 1975).

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3. "Germany and the Second World War," Vol. 6, edited by Horst Boog, Werner Rahn, Reinhard Stumpf and Bernd Wegner (Oxford, 2001).

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4. "Closing the Ring" by Winston S. Churchill (Houghton Mifflin, 1951).

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5. "Japan Subdued" by Herbert Feis (Princeton, 1961).