While reading through the Wall Street Journal in July, Lee came across these five recommendations from them in their book reviews.

"These riveting works depict major decisions of World War II, says historian Ian Kershaw"

• 1. How War Came - Donald Cameron Watt - Pantheon, 1989

2. The Road to Stalingrad - John Erickson - Harper and Row - 1975

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

4. Closing the Ring - Winston S Churchill - Houghton Miflin - 1951

5. Japan Subdued - Herbert Feis - Princeton - 1961