There’s a lot going on at the Southport Memorial Library this summer. A book talk and signing by two well-known authors is scheduled for early August, followed by the ever-popular Book and Bake Sale — a chance to pick up some good reading and sample baked goodies from Southport’s best cooks.

History buffs may want to check out the World War II Collection. Over 50 volumes in this collection chronicle the era beginning with Adolph Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, until the Japanese surrender in 1945.

“Their Finest Hour,” in which Winston Churchill writes of the Battle of Britain; “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” by William Shirrer; and “Brave Men,” by Ernie Pyle, are just a few of the titles available in the collection.

There are lots of books about the Holocaust, when six million Jews, gypsies and political prisoners were crammed into cattle cars and transported to concentration camps where they were beaten, starved and systematically exterminated. There is “The Night Trilogy,” by Elie Wiesel, who survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, two of the most notorious camps. In 1986, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for “speaking out against violence, repression and racism.” Another book, “The Nazi Doctors,” by Robert Jay Lifton, exposes gruesome medical experiments on prisoners. “The Partizaners” is an epic novel about the Jewish underground resistance. And ‘The Warsaw Ghetto Is No More” tells about the Jews’ heroic uprising in that city.

“The Two Ocean War,” by Samuel Eliot Morrison, “Guadalcanal Diary,” by Richard Tragaski, and “Sea War In The Pacific” explore the war in the South Pacific from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the Marines’ capture of Iwo Jima.

Rick Atkinson’s trilogy, “The Guns At Last Light,” “An Army At Dawn,” and “The Day of Battle” is unsurpassed for revealing war in breathtaking detail. These are just some of the titles available.

The World War II Collection is currently being catalogued, with new books being added periodically. Check it out.