Books I'm Reading: June 2014

As an eternal learner, I am constantly reading. I invite you each month to follow along with what I'm currently reading or check back quarterly for hand-picked selections of my favorites. Here's what I'm reading this month:

On My Desk

• Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year by David Von Drehle

Recommended Reading: World War II

• At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor by Gordon Prange
• D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen Ambrose
• Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
• The Great Raid by William Breuer
• Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
• Crusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides

WWII Reading for the especially ambitious

• Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston Churchill