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Labor in Nazi Germany (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1967); Ulrich Herbert, Fremdarbeiter: Politik und Praxis des “Ausländer-Einsatzes” in der Kriegswirtschaft des Dritten Reiches (Berlin: Dietz, 1985); Ludolf Herbst, Der Totale Krieg und die Ordnung der Wirtschaft (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1982); and Alfred C. Mierzejewski’s superb study, The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944–1945: Allied Air Power and the German National Railway (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1988).
    The best introduction to the literature and issues of the Holocaust is Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust in History (Hanover: N.H.: Univ. Press of New England, 1987). Excellent treatments of most major aspects and controversies may be found in the published papers of three sets of conferences: Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton (eds.), The Holocaust: Ideology, Bureaucracy, and Genocide (Millwood, N.J.: Kraus, 1980); Peter Hayes (ed.), Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World (Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern Univ. Press, 1991); and Jürgen Rohwer and Eberhard Jäckel (eds.), Der Mord an den Juden im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Entschlussbildung und Verwirklichung (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1985). The very fine work of Raul Hilberg, The Destruction of the European Jews (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1961), has been revised, but one of the revisions is an abbreviated students’ edition and the other one has been spread over three volumes, making it impossibly expensive. Very important are Richard Breitman, The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution (New York: Knopf, 1991), and the books and articles of Christopher Browning cited in the text. A disturbing but significant book is Ernst Klee et al.(eds.), “Schöne Zeiten”: Judenmord aus der Sicht der Tater und Gaffer (Frankfurt/M: Fischer, 1988), now translated by Hugh R. Trevor-Roper as “The Good Old Days”: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders (New York: Free Press, 1991).
    Many of the books dealing with German-occupied Europe are listed in the two volumes of Rich listed above. Two very significant works which must be added to his bibliography on Poland are Gerhard Eisenblatter, “Grundlinien der Politik des Reiches gegenüber dem Generalgouvernement 1939–1945” (Frankfurt/M, Phil. diss, 1969), and Czeslaw Madajzyk, Die Okkupationspolitik des deutschen Imperialismus in Polen 1939–1945 (Berlin-East: Akademie Verlag, 1987), a revised version of the same author’s 1970 book with extensive material from Polish as well as German archives.
    On Britain in the war, the justly famous memoir-history of Winston Churchill has already been mentioned, though it is also necessary to recall that its composition was affected not only by Churchill’s desire for self-justification but also by what he saw as the needs of partisan politics and possible future office holding at the time. The authorized biography by Martin Gilbert, volumes 6–8 (London: Heinemann; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983–88), contains much supplementary material. All of Churchill’s wartime speeches, including those in secret sessions of Parliament, may be found in Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897–1963 (New York: Bowker, 1974), vols. 6–7. Tuvia Ben-Moshe’s article, “Winston Churchill and the ‘Second Front’: A Reappraisal,” JMH 62 (1990), 503–38,is a fine discussion of a major controversy. Of great importance is David Dilks’s edition of The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, O.M.,1938–1945 (New York: Putnam’s, 1972), which provides the insider’s view of the permanent head of Britain’s Foreign Office. The diaries of Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff for most of the war, have been edited with extensive commentary by Sir Arthur Bryant as The Turn of the Tide, and Triumph in the West (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957–59). The text has,