Keitel, Wilhelm. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Keitel. Edited by Walter Gorlitz and translated by David Irving. London: William Kimber, 1965.
Kesselring, Albert. The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Kesselring. Translated by Lynton Hudson. London: William Kimber, 1953.
Liddell Hart, B. H. The Rommel Papers. Translated by Paul Findlay. New York: Da Capo, 1953.
Maugeri, Franco. From the Ashes of Disgrace. Edited by Victor Rosen. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1948.
Mussolini, Benito. The Mussolini Memoirs, 1942–1943. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and translated by Frances Lobb. London: Orion, Phoenix, 2000.
______. My Rise and Fall. New York: Da Capo, 1998.
Radl, Karl. Die Blitzbefreiung Mussolinis: Mit Skorzeny am Gran Sasso. Selent: Pour le Mérite, 1996.
Ribbentrop, Joachim von. The Ribbentrop Memoirs. Translated by Oliver Watson. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
Schellenberg, Walter. The Schellenberg Memoirs. Edited and translated by Louis Hagen. London: Andre Deutsch, 1956.
Schmidt, Paul. Hitler’s Interpreter. Edited by R.H.C. Steed. London: William Heinemann, 1951.
Semmler, Rudolf. Goebbels: The Man Next to Hitler. London: Westhouse, 1947.
Skorzeny, Otto. My Commando Operations: The Memoirs of Hitler’s Most Daring Commando. Translated by David Johnston. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 1995.
______. Skorzeny’s Secret Missions: War Memoirs of the Most Dangerous Man in Europe. Translated by Jacques Le Clercq. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1950.
Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. Translated by Richard and Clara Winston. New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1997.
Starhemberg, Ernst Rudiger. Between Hitler and Mussolini: Memoirs of Ernst Rudiger Prince Starhemberg. New York: Harper, 1942.
Strong, Kenneth. Intelligence at the Top. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.
Student, Kurt, and Hermann Götzel. Generaloberst Kurt Student und seine Fallschirmjäger: die Erinnerungen des Generaloberst Kurt Student. Friedberg: Podzun-Pallas, 1980.
Summersby, Kay. Eisenhower Was My Boss. Edited by Michael Kearns. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1948.
Trevor-Roper, H. R. The Bormann Letters: The Private Correspondence Between Martin Bormann and His Wife from January 1943 to April 1945. Translated by R. H. Stevens. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954.
Warlimont, Walter. Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, 1939–45. Translated by R. H. Barry. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1964.
Westphal, Siegfried. The German Army in the West. London: Cassell, 1951.
Books About Hitler, Mussolini, and the Axis
Bosworth, R.J.B. Mussolini. London: Arnold, 2002.
Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. New York: HarperCollins, Harper- Perennial, 1991.
Corvaja, Santi. Hitler and Mussolini: The Secret Meetings. Translated by R. L. Miller. New York: Enigma, 2001.
Davis, Melton S. Who Defends Rome? The Forty-Five Days, July 25-September 8, 1943. New York: Dial, 1972.
Deakin, F. W. The Brutal Friendship: Mussolini, Hitler and the Fall of Italian Fascism. London: Orion, Phoenix, 2000.
Dombrowski, Roman. Mussolini: Twilight and Fall. Translated by H. C. Stevens. London: William Heinemann, 1956.
Hibbert, Christopher. Benito Mussolini: The Rise and Fall of Il Duce. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1975.
Monelli, Paolo. Mussolini: The Intimate Life of a Demagogue. Translated by Brigid Maxwell. New York: Vanguard, 1954.
Mussolini, Rachele. Mussolini: An Intimate Biography by His Widow. New York: Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, 1977.
Plehwe, Friedrich-Karl von. The End of an Alliance: Rome’s Defection from the Axis in 1943. Translated by Eric Mosbacher. London: Oxford University, 1971.
Ridley, Jasper. Mussolini: A Biography. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Cooper Square, 2000.
Smith, Denis Mack. Mussolini. New York: Random House, Vintage, 1983.
Taylor, A.J.P. The War Lords. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977.
Toland, John. Adolf Hitler. New York: Random House, Anchor, 1992.
Trevor-Roper, Hugh. The Last Days of Hitler. 6th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992.
Wiskemann, Elizabeth. The Rome-Berlin Axis: A History of the Relations Between Hitler and Mussolini. London: Oxford University, 1949.
Books About the German Paratroopers and the Luftwaffe
Ailsby, Christopher. Hitler’s Sky Warriors: German Paratroopers in Action, 1939–1945. Dulles, VA: Brassey’s, 2000.
Edwards, Roger. German Airborne Troops, 1936–45. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974.
Farrar-Hockley, A. H. Student. New York: Ballantine, 1973.
Green, William. The Warplanes of the Third Reich. New York: Galahad, 1990.
Kurtz, Robert. German Paratroopers: Uniforms, Insignia, and Equipment of the Fallschirmjäger in World War II. Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2000.
Lucas, James. Storming Eagles: German Airborne Forces in World War II. London: Cassell, 2001.
Nasse, Jean-Yves. Green Devils: German Paratroops, 1939–45. Translated by W. Mühlberger, G. Schubert, and Jean-Pierre Villaume. Paris: Histoire & Collections, 1997.
Whiting, Charles. Hunters from the Sky: The German Parachute Corps, 1940–1945. New York: Random House, Ballantine, 1975.
Wood, Tony and Bill Gunston. Hitler’s Luftwaffe: A Pictorial History and Technical Encyclopedia of Hitler’s Air Power in World War II. London: Salamander, Leisure, 1977.
Books About Skorzeny
Foley, Charles. Commando Extraordinary: A Biography of Otto Skorzeny. Costa Mesa, CA: Noontide, 1992.
Infield, Glenn B. Skorzeny: Hitler’s Commando. New York: St. Martin’s, 1981.
Whiting, Charles. Skorzeny: The Most Dangerous Man in Europe. Revised and expanded ed. Conshohocken, PA: Combined, 1998.
Other Works
Barnett, Correlli. Hitler’s Generals. New York: Grove, 1989.
Beevor, Antony. The Fall of Berlin, 1945. New York: Penguin, 2003.
______. The Spanish Civil War. New York: Penguin, 2001.
______. Stalingrad. New York: Penguin, 1999.
Bessel, Richard. Life in the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University, 1987.
Brendon, Piers. The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s. New York: Knopf, 2000.
Buderi, Robert. The Invention That Changed the World: How a Small Group of Radar Pioneers Won the Second World War and Launched a Technological Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Churchill, Winston S. Onwards to Victory. Compiled by Charles Eade. London: Cassell, 1944.
Clark, Martin. Modern Italy, 1871–1995. 2d ed. London: Longman, 1996.
Craven, Wesley Frank, and James Lea Cate. The Army Air Forces in World War II. Vol. 2, Europe: Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1949.
Cross, Robin. The Battle of Kursk: Operation Citadel 1943. London: Penguin, 2002.
De Felice, Renzo. The Jews in Fascist Italy: A History. New York: Enigma, 2001. Delzell, Charles F. Mussolini’s Enemies: The Italian Anti-Fascist Resistance. New York: Howard Fertig, 1974.
D’Este, Carlo. World War II in the Mediterranean. New York: Workman, Algonquin, 1990.
Dulles, Allen. From Hitler’s Doorstep: The Wartime Intelligence Reports of Allen Dulles, 1942–1945. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1996.
Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer. Elite of the Third Reich: The Recipients of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, 1939–45. Translated by C. F. Colton and Duncan Rogers. Solihull, England: Helion, 2003.
Garland, Albert N., and Howard McGaw Smyth. Sicily and the Surrender of Italy. Washington, DC: Center of Military History (United States Army), 1986.
Gilbert, Felix. Hitler Directs His War: The Secret Records of His Daily Military Conferences. New York: Oxford University, 1950.
Goñi, Uki. The Real Odessa: Smuggling the Nazis to Perón’s Argentina. London: Granta, 2002.
Hoffmann, Peter. Hitler’s Personal Security: Protecting the Führer, 1921–1945. N
ew York: Da Capo, 2000.
Hoehne, Heinz. Canaris. Translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979.
Irving, David. Hitler’s War. London: Focal Point, 2002.
Kahn, David. Hitler’s Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2000.
Katz, Robert. The Battle for Rome. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
______. Death in Rome. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Keegan, John. The First World War. New York: Knopf, 1999.
______. Waffen S.S.: The Asphalt Soldiers. New York: Random House, Ballantine, 1970.
Kessler, Leo. Kommando: Hitler’s Special Forces in the Second World War. London: Leo Cooper, 1995.
Knox, MacGregor. Hitler’s Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2000.
Kursietis, Andris J. The Wehrmacht at War, 1939–1945: The Units and Commanders of the German Ground Forces During World War II. Soesterberg, Netherlands: Aspekt, 1999.
Lamb, Richard. War in Italy, 1943–1945: A Brutal Story. New York: Da Capo, 1993.
Levenda, Peter. Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult. 2d ed. New York: Continuum, 2002.
Liddell Hart, B. H. History of the Second World War. New York: Da Capo, 1999.
Lucas, James. Kommando: German Special Forces of World War Two. London: Cassell, 1998.
Lukacs, John. Five Days in London: May 1940. New Haven, CT: Yale University, Yale Nota Bene, 2001.
Martienssen, Anthony K. Hitler and His Admirals. London: Secker and Warburg, 1948.
McRaven, William H. Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1996.
Moseley, Ray. Mussolini’s Shadow: The Double Life of Count Galeazzo Ciano. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1999.
Muggeridge, Malcolm. Ciano’s Diplomatic Papers. Translated by Stuart Hood. London: Odhams, 1948.
Neufeld, Michael J. The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1996.
Patricelli, Marco. Liberate Il Duce. Milano: Mondadori, 2001.
Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1996.
______. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1988.
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster, Touchstone, 1981.
Showell, Jak P. Mallmann. The German Navy in World War Two: A Reference Guide to the Kriegsmarine, 1935–1945. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute, 1979.
Smith, Denis Mack. Italy and Its Monarchy. New Haven, CT: Yale University, 1989.
______. Mussolini’s Roman Empire. New York: Viking, 1976.
______. Modern Italy: A Political History. Revised ed. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1969.
Smith, R. Harris. OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1972.
Stokesbury, James L. A Short History of World War I. New York: William Morrow, 1981.
______. A Short History of World War II. New York: William Morrow, 1980.
Toland, John. The Last 100 Days: The Tumultuous and Controversial Story of the Final Days of World War II in Europe. New York: Random House, Modern Library, 2003.
Treadgold, Donald W., and Herbert J. Ellison. Twentieth Century Russia. 9th ed. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000.
Trevor-Roper, H. R. Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–1944: His Private Conversations. Translated by Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens. New York: Enigma, 2000.
______. The Testament of Adolf Hitler: The Hitler-Bormann Documents, February- April, 1945. Edited by François Genoud and translated by R. H. Stevens. London: Icon, 1962.
Weinberg, Gerhard L., Helmut Heiber, and David M. Glantz. Hitler and His Generals: Military Conferences, 1942–1945. New York: Enigma, 2003.
Wulff, Wilhelm. Zodiac and Swastika: How Astrology Guided Hitler’s Germany. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973.
Book Chapters and Periodicals
“Berlin Fails to Mention Place.” New York Times, 13 September 1943. “Berlin on ‘This Open Treason.’” Times (London), 9 September 1943.
Brigham, Daniel T. “Arrests Reported.” New York Times, 26 July 1943.
De Felice, Renzo. Preface to Diary, 1937–1943, by Galeazzo Ciano. New York: Enigma, 2002.
“Ex-SS Man Worked for Mossad Against Egyptian Rocket Project.” Jerusalem Post, 20 September 1989.
“He is in a ‘Big City,’ Berlin Says.” New York Times, 14 September 1943.
“In the Ras’s House.” In The Mussolini Memoirs, 1942–1943, by Benito Mussolini . Edited by Raymond Klibansky and translated by Frances Lobb. London: Orion, Phoenix, 2000.
Iurato, Flavia, and Domenico Antonelli. “With Mussolini at the Campo Imperatore.” In The Mussolini Memoirs, 1942–1943, by Benito Mussolini. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and translated by Frances Lobb. London: Orion, Phoenix, 2000.
Lamb, Richard. Introduction to My Rise and Fall, by Benito Mussolini. New York: Da Capo, 1998.
“Mussolini Is Taken by Nazis from Italians, Berlin Reports.” New York Times, 13 September 1943.
“Mussolini Was in Ventotene.” New York Times, 13 September 1943.
“Nazis’ Arch-Killer Captured by Yanks.” New York Times, 18 May 1945.
Pertinax. “Trial of Mussolini Reported Planned.” New York Times, 10 September 1943.
“Text of Hitler’s Broadcast on the Defection of Italy.” New York Times, 11 September 1943.
“The Rescue of Mussolini.” After the Battle, no. 22 (1978): 13–31.
Tuohy, William. “SS Officer Skorzeny Wrongly Credited with Deed, Historian Says; Mussolini Rescue: A New Version.” Los Angeles Times, 26 December 1987.
Videos
German Fallschirmjägers in Action, 1939–1944. Black and white, 30 min. RZM Imports/Home Video, 1993.
Through Enemy Eyes: A Newsreel History of the Third Reich at War. Vol. 60, #760. Black and white, 49 min. International Historic Films, 1994.
INDEX
Abwehr, Abyssinia. See Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Aircraft
aerial photography
See also Bombing raids
(Allied); Gliders
Air raid sirens
Albania
Albergo Rifugio
Alfieri, Dino
Alto Adige
Ambrosio, Vittorio (General)
Anschluss
Antiaircraft guns
AntiSemitism
Anzio, Italy
Apennine Mountains
Armistice terms
See also
Unconditional surrender
Artillery
Assergi, Italy
Astrologers
Atrocities
AustriaSee also Anschluss
Automatic rifles
Axis conference in Tarvisio
Axis metaphor
Axis summit proposal
Axis war council at Bologna
Badoglio, Pietro (Marshal)
announcing Italy’s capitulation
and Army Group B in northern
Italy
background of
and Cavallero plot
exit from Rome
and first approach to Allies
kidnapping of,See also
Operation Student
letter from Mussolini to
and Rahn
repressive measures of
Balkans
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of the Bulge
Bedell Smith, Walter (General)
Belgium, See also Eben Emael
Berio, Alberto
Berlepsch, Baron Otto von
(Lieutenant)
death of
Berlin
Big business
Bombing raids (Allied)
Berlin
Frascati
Hamburg
Italian cities
Rome
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bormann, Martin
Bouquet of Violets (Dürer painting)
Bradley, Omar (General)
Braun, Eva
Braun, Wernher von
Brenner Pass
Bribery
Brindisi, Italy
Bullock, Alan
Butcher, Harry (Captain)
Campo Imperatore (ski resort/hotel)
raid on compared with Eben Emael
raid
surrender of
Canaris, Wilhelm (Admiral)
execution of
Carabinieri, See also
Soleti, Fernando
Carboni, Giacomo (General)
Casablanca Conference
Cassino, Italy
Castellano, Giuseppe (General)
(n)
Casualties
Cavallero, Ugo
Christian, Eckard (Colonel)
Churchill, Winston
and rescue of Mussolini
CIA
Ciano, Edda
Ciano, Galeazzo (Count)
execution of
flown to Germany by Nazis
memoirs of
Clairvoyants
Clark, Bruce (General)
Clark, Mark (General)
Clark, Martin
Communism
Concentration camps
Corsica
Crete
Croatia
Crowd, The (Le Bon)
Czechoslovakia.
D’Ajeta, Lanza
Deakin, F. W.
De Courten, Raffaele (Admiral)
Denmark
Dessauer (Aviation Engineer)
D’Este, Carlo
Disguises
Doenitz, Karl (Admiral)
Dollmann, Eugen,
Dulles, Allen
Eastern front
See also Russia, Nazi invasion of
Eben Emael (Belgian fort)
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (General)
security measures for
Elba (island)
England
British commandos
Ethiopia
Executions
Faiola, Alberto (Lieutenant)
Fascism
See also Italy, Fascist Party in
Federzoni, Luigi
Feltre, Italy. See Hitler/Mussolini
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