Rossino is the author of Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity (2003)[1] and a novel, Six Days in September: A Novel of Lee's Army in Maryland, 1862 (2017).
[2] With Gene M. Thorp, he is the co-author of The Tale Untwisted: George McClellan and the Discovery of Lee's Lost Orders, September 13, 1862 (2019).
From June until October 1999, as a PhD candidate at Syracuse University, Rossino held a Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to study "German Soldiers, the Polish Campaign, and the Nazification of the Wehrmacht".
[3] He was awarded his PhD that year for a thesis entitled "September 1939: The German army and the invasion of Poland".
[5] Christopher Browning wrote: "Rossino’s fine study provides the 'missing link' between the traditional German expansionism of World War I and the 'war of annihilation' against the Soviet Union in 1941.