Voices from the Second World War

      

      

Suggested Bibliography

-World War II: Secondary Sources-

Adams, Michael C.C., The Best War Ever: America and World War II. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Beidler, Philip D., The Good Wars Greatest Hits: World War II and American Remembering, Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Bird, William L. and Harry R. Rubenstein, Design For Victory: World War II Posters on American Homefront. New York, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.

Blum, John Morton. V was for Victory. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1976.

Brokaw, Tom. The Greatest Generation. New York, 1998.

Cashman, Sean Dennis. America, Roosevelt and World War II. New York University Press, New York. 1989.

Daniels, Roger. Concentration Camps USA: Japanese Americans and World War II. New York, 1971.

Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York, 1986.

Dick, Bernard F., The Star Spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1985.

Doherty, Thomas, Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Erenberg, Lewis A. and Susan E. Hirsch, The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Goossen, Rachel Waltner, Women Against the Good War: Conscientious Objection and Gender on the American Homefront, 1941-1947. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Honey, Maureen. Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda during World War II. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachussetts Press, 1984.

Jeffries, John W. Wartime America: The World War II Homefront. Chicago: I.R. Press, 1996.

Kennedy, David M. Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Litnoff, Judy Barrett and Smith, David C. ed. Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Homefront. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

ONeill, William L. A Democracy at War: Americas Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II. New York, 1993.

Persico, Joseph E. Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial. New York, Penguin Books, 1994.

Polenberg, Richard. War and Society, The United States, 1941-1945. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972.

Rogers, Donald I. Since You Went Away. Arlington House, New Rochelle, N.Y. 1973

Smith, Bradley F., The Wars Long Shadow. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Tuttle, William M. Jr. Daddys Gone to War The Second World War in the Lives of Americas Children. Oxford University Press, New York. 1993.

Weglyn, Michi Nishiura, Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of Americas Concentration Camps. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1976.

-World War II Fiction-

Arnold, Elliott. Kind of Secret Weapon. New York: Soribner, 1969.

Benchley, Nathaniel. Bright Candles; A Novel of the Danish Resistance. New York: Harper Row, 1974.

Boulle, Pierre. The Bridge Over the River Kwai. New York: Vanguard Press, 1954.

Clarke, John. Black Soldier. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.

Forman, James D. Horses of Anger. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967.

Greene, Bette. Summer of my German Soldier. New York: Dial Press, 1973.

Hersey, John.  A Bell for Adano.  New York: Knopf, 1944.

Jones, Tristan.  Dutch Treat: A Novel of World War II. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1979.

Mack, William P.  South to Java: A Novel. Baltimore, MD: Nautical & Aviation Publishing Company of America, 1987.

Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehard, 1948.

Matas, Carol. After the War. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996.

Michner, James A.  Tales of the South Pacific.  New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947.

Mueller, Marnie.  The Climate of the Country: A Novel.  Willmantic, CT: Eubstone Press, 1999.

Nathanson, E. M.  The Dirty Dozen.  New York: Random House, 1965.

Nolan, Han.  If I Should Die Before I Wake.   San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1994.

Rydberg, Lou.  Shadow Army.  Nashville:  T. Nelson, 1976.

Tibbets, Albert B.  Salute to the Brave;  Stories of World War II.  Boston: Little Brown, 1960.

Watkins, Yoko Kawash.  So Far From the Bamboo Grove.  New York: Lathrop, Lee & Shepard, 1986.

Wouk, Herman.  Caine Mutiny, A Novel of World War II.  Garden City, NY.  Doubleday, 1951.
 
 

-Collections Of Oral Histories-

World War II Era

Brecher, Elinor J. Schindlers Legacy: True Stories of the List Survivors. New York: Dutton Books, 1994.

Frazer, Heather T., and OSullivan, John. We Have Just Begun to Not Fight: An Oral History of Conscientious objectors in the Civilian Public Service during World War II. Twayne Oral History Series. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Gluck, Sherna Berger. Rosie the Riveter Revisited: Women, the War, and Social Change. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1987.

Lewin, Rhoda. Witnesses to the Holocaust: An Oral History. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1990.

Stave, Bruce M., Palmer, Michele with, Frank, Leslie. Witnesses to Nuremberg: An Oral History of American Participants at the War Crimes Trial. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998

Terkel, Studs. The Good War: An Oral History of World War II. New York: 1984.
 

Womens History

Fenzi, Jewell, and Nelson, Carl L. Married to the Foreign Service: An Oral History of the American Diplomatic Spouse. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.

Milich, Zorka. A Strangers Supper: An Oral History of Centenarian Women in Montenegro. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

Moore, Marat. Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Morin, Ann Miller. Her Excellency: An Oral History of American Women Ambassadors. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994.
 

African-American History

Halpern, Rick, and Horowitz, Roger. Meatpackers:An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Morris, Gabrielle. Head of the Class: An Oral History of African American Achievement in Higher Education and Beyond. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.

Perata, David. Those Pullman Blues: An Oral History of the African American Railroad Attendant. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.
 
 

Other Areas of Interest

Gillette, Michael. Launching the War on Poverty:An Oral History. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1996.

Stacewicz, Richard. Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of Vietnam Veterans against the War. Twayne Oral History Series.  New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.

Stave, Bruce M., Sutherland, John F., with Salerno, Aldo. From the Old Country: An Oral History of European Migration to America. Twayne Oral History Series. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994; paperback ed., University Press of New England, 1999.
 
 

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