Summer Reading 2026: Reading about World War II at a 6th Grade to 8th Grade Level

Here are fifteen eBooks on World War II written at the 6th- to 8th-grade level. These free ebooks have not been banned from classrooms. Rather, they are not available because administrators in state education departments do not believe that the volume of reading matters to high school students. They demand textbooks that students find boring and don’t read. Other administrators don’t have the budgets for books, and have not yet turned to free eBooks.

Each link provides a button to download the ebook and a short description of the content. The titles are:

The Mad Dog of Europe by Albert Nesor and Herman Mankiewicz 
An American Bomber Pilot: Serenade to the Big Bird by Bert Stiles
The Fall of France: The Wounded Don’t Cry by Quentin Reynolds
The Battle of Britain: The Last Enemy by Richard Hillary
War in the Pacific: Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leckie
Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa: The Early Hours of D-Day 
The British in North Africa: Patrol by Fred Majdalany
U. S. Army in Europe: Road to Huertgen by Paul Boesch
Agent in Italy by S.K.: How to Survive as a Spy
The Road to Stalingrad by Benno Zieser: World War II on the Eastern Front
An Army of Amateurs by Philippe De Vomecourt: The French Resistance to Nazi Occupation
Solidarity in World War III: Give Us This Day by Sidney Stewart
The Fall of the Philippines: Escape from Corregidor by Edgar D. Whitcomb
Last Flight from Singapore by Arthur Donahue: The Fall of Singapore
The Fall of Malaya, Burma, and the Dutch East Indies: Action in the East by O.D. Gallagher 

You can see longer descriptions of each book and other titles at History for Everyone: Build a Nation of Readers with Free Ebooks.