Here are some books on WWII. I have included some that do not fit within your criteria that never the less, you should find of interest
1. AND I WAS THERE, by Admiral Edwin Layton. Layton was the intelligence officer for the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor during the period prior to and after the Japanese attack on December 7th. He begins with his going into Naval Intelligence upon graduation from Annapolis, then covers intelligence operations vis-a-vis Japan during the pre-war period, the bogus negotiations by Nomura and Kurusu, the breakdown in communications between Washington and Pearl Harbor, the attack and its aftermath on through Midway. Layton defends Admiral Kimmel.
2. THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC, by Harry Gailey.
3.THE PACIFIC WAR, by John Costello.
4. PACIFIC SIEGE, by Lawrence Cortesi. Covers one of the battles for Australia, in New Guinea, which was one of the four, along with Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal, which stopped what had appeared to to an unstoppable advance by Japan. This is not a footnoted, scholarly account. However, my oldest brother took part in this fighting. He recommended the book to me.
5. D DAY, by Stephen Ambrose.
6.CITIZEN SOLDIERS, by Stephen Ambrose.
7. SHORE LEAVE, by Frederic Wakeman. This novel created an iconic figure in Andy Crewson, the Naval pilot leading the group on leave, back from the Pacific. Made into a really lousy movie, with a badly mis-cast Cary Grant as Crewson. Has some sharp bite beneath the veneer.
8. GUADALCANAL DIARY, by Richard Tregaskis. First rate reporting on the early days of fighting on Guadalcanal.
9. THOSE DEVILS IN BAGGY PANTS, by Ross Carter. A must read. A first hand recounting of the participation by the 82nd Airborne in WWII from North Africa on to the end, by a survivor.
10.UP FRONT. By Bill Mauldin. A collection of Mauldin’s cartoons for "Yank", the U.S. Army publication for the troops in Europe, with Mauldin’s irreverent but very illuminating running commentary.
11. PANZER LEADER, by Heinz Guderian, the German general who led the blitzkrieg through France, then fought on the Eastern Front. Guderian ranks with Patton and Rommel as the top combat commanders. His analysis of what happened from the German viewpoint is clear-eyed and factual, rather than apologetic, and very informative.
12. THE FIRST AND THE LAST, by Adolph Galland, the German ace of aces among its fighter pilots. Another attention grabbing analysis of the war from the enemy’s perspective.
13. SIXTY DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WEST, by Jacques Benoist-Mechin. Gives a day-by- day account of Germany’s steamrollering of France. For each day, the military and the political situation is set forth. A unique view.
14. SPY/COUNTERSPY, by Dusko Popov. This is the memoir of a Hungarian playboy recruited by the Abwehr, who joined up for the purpose of becoming a double agent; which he did, becoming one of Britain’s most valuable agents. Better than most fiction.
