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World War II: Catastrophe and Transformation

A guide of resources and primary sources for EUHI 214 with Prof. Moodie.

Sources 1

 

So lovely a country will never perish [electronic resource] : wartime diaries of Japanese writers / Donald Keene
 

Sensō : the Japanese remember the Pacific War : letters to the editor of Asahi Shimbun / edited and with an introduction by Frank Gibney ; translated by Beth Cary
 

A physician's diary of the atomic bombing and its aftermath / Raisuke Shirabe, M.D. ; translated by Aloysius F. Kuo, M.D. ; edited by Fidelius R. Kuo
 

Leaves from an autumn of emergencies : selections from the wartime diaries of ordinary Japanese / Samuel Hideo Yamashita
 

I was defeated. / A translation from the Japanese
 

Through the burning steppe : a wartime memoir / Elena Kozhina ; translated by Vadim Mahmoudov
 

Three worlds of Larissa / by Larissa Kotyeva
 

PPG-2266 : a surgeon's war / by Nikolai Amosoff ; translated and adapted by George St. George
 

Nina's journey : a memoir of Stalin's Russia and the Second World War / Nina Markovna
 

A woman in Berlin : eight weeks in the conquered city : a diary / by Anonymous ; translated by Philip Boehm
 

The war of our childhood : memories of World War II / [reported by] Wolfgang W.E. Samuel
 

Vernebelt, verdunkelt sind alle Hirne. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017037642
 

An uncommon friendship : from opposite sides of the Holocaust / Bernat Rosner & Frederic C. Tubach with Sally Patterson Tubach
 

To lose a war : memories of a German girl / Regina Maria Shelton
 

The Peenemünde wind tunnels : a memoir / Peter P. Wegener
 

Medical block, Buchenwald : the personal testimony of inmate 996, block 36
 

KL Auschwitz seen by the SS / Höss, Broad, Kremer ; selection, elaboration, and notes, Jadwiga Bezwińska, Danuta Czech ; translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon, Krystyna Michalik
 

Hostage of the Third Reich : the story of my imprisonment and rescue from the SS / by Fey von Hassell ; edited by David Forbes Watt
 

Good-bye to the mermaids : a childhood lost in Hitler's Berlin / Karin Finell
 

German voices : memories of life during Hitler's Third Reich / Frederic C. Tubach with Sally Patterson Tubach
 

Frauen : German women recall the Third Reich / by Alison Owings
 

Embattled witness : memories of a time of war / Bernard Häring
 

One woman's World War II / Violet A. Kochendoerfer
 

One woman's Army : a Black officer remembers the WAC / Charity Adams Earley
 

An officer and a lady : the World War II letters of Lt. Col. Betty Bandel, Women's Army Corps / edited by Sylvia J. Bugbee ; with an introduction by Lorry M. Fenner
 

Mrs. Cordie's soldier son [electronic resource] : a World War II saga / Rocky R. Miracle
 

Mollie's war : the letters of a World War II WAC in Europe / Mollie Weinstein Schaffer and Cyndee Schaffer ; contributing editor Jennifer G. Mathers ; introduction by Leisa D. Meyer
 

Missing in action : letters of a medic / Charles Digby Wardlaw, Jr
 

Miss you : the World War II letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor / [edited by] Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. Smith ; Barbara Wooddall Taylor, Charles E. Taylor
 

Mercy in hell, an American ambulance driver with the Eighth army / by Andrew Geer
 

Merchant mariners at war : an oral history of World War II / [interviews and editing by] George J. Billy and Christine M. Billy ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene Allen Smith
 

Love and war : Pearl Harbor through V-J Day / by Robert and Jane Easton
 

Looking back : memoirs of a World War II combat medic / Ronald E. Coe
 

Long walk through war : a combat doctor's diary / Klaus H. Huebner
 

The London journal of General Raymond E. Lee, 1940-1941. / Edited by James Leutze, with a foreword by Dean Acheson
 

Letters from the 442nd : the World War II correspondence of a Japanese American medic / Minoru Masuda ; edited by Hana Masuda and Dianne Bridgman
 

Lee Miller's war : photographer and correspondent with the Allies in Europe, 1944-45 / foreword by David E. Scherman ; edited by Antony Penrose
 

Last man out / H. Robert Charles
 

Last chapter / Ernie Pyle
 

Journey for Margaret
 

Into the valley : a skirmish of the Marines / John Hersey ; illustrations by Major Donald L. Dickson
 

Inside an American concentration camp : Japanese American resistance at Poston, Arizona / Richard S. Nishimoto ; selected and edited with an introduction and afterword by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Sources 2

 

If I get out alive : World War II letters & diaries of William H. McDougall Jr. / edited and with an introduction by Gary Topping
 

I was there; the personal story of the Chief of Staff to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, based on his notes and diaries made at the time. / With a foreword by President Truman
 

I was chaplain on the Franklin
 

I can't forget; personal experiences of a war correspondent in France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium, Spain and England / Robert J. Casey
 

I call to remembrance [electronic resource] : Toyo Suyemoto's years of internment / edited by Susan B. Richardson
 

Hospital at war [electronic resource] : the 95th Evacuation Hospital in World War II / Zachary B. Friedenberg
 

Home front soldier : the story of a G.I. and his Italian-American family during World War II / Richard Aquila
 

Here is your war / Ernie Pyle ; Drawings by Carol Johnson
 

The GI's rabbi : World War II letters of David Max Eichhorn / edited by Greg Palmer and Mark S. Zaid ; with a prologue by Doris L. Bergen
 

Forbidden diary [electronic resource] : a record of wartime internment, 1941-1945 / Natalie Crouter ; edited with and introd. by Lynn Z. Bloom ; with drawings by Daphne Bird
 

Forbidden diary : a record of wartime internment, 1941-1945 / Natalie Crouter ; edited with and introduction by Lynn Z. Bloom ; with drawings by Daphne Bird
 

A few small candles : war resisters of World War II tell their stories / edited by Larry Gara & Lenna Mae Gara
 

Experiment in Germany; the story of an American intelligence officer / by Saul K. Padover
 

Evidence not seen : a woman's miraculous faith in the jungles of World War II / Darlene Deibler Rose
 

Enemy alien / Kiyo Hirano
 

Dearest ones [electronic resource] : a true World War II love story / Rosemary Norwalk
 

Dachau : the harrowing of hell / Marcus J. Smith
 

Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family / Yoshiko Uchida
 

Common warfare : parallel memoirs by two World War II GIs in the Pacific / by Carl M. Becker and Robert G. Thobaben
 

Combat reporter : Don Whitehead's World War II diary and memoirs / edited by John B. Romeiser
 

Combat chaplain : the personal story of the World War II chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion / Israel A.S. Yost ; Monica E. Yost and Michael Markrich, editors
 

A chance for love : the World War II letters of Marian Elizabeth Smith and Lt. Eugene T. Petersen, USMCR / edited by Eugene T. Petersen
 

Call of duty : a Montana girl in World War II / Grace Porter Miller ; foreword by Linda Grant De Pauw
 

"Bombed but unbeaten," excerpts from the war commentary of Beatrice L. Warde
 

Between the thunder and the sun
 

Berlin diary; the journal of a foreign correspondent, 1934-1941 William L. Shirer
 

And justice for all : an oral history of the Japanese American detention camps / [compiled by] John Tateishi
 

Digging for Mrs. Miller; some experiences of an air-raid warden / by John Strachey
 

Trap with a green fence : survival in Treblinka / Richard Glazar ; translated by Roslyn Theobald
 

Dictators face to face. / Translated by David Moore
 

Diary of the dark years, 1940-1944 : collaboration, resistance, and daily life in occupied Paris / Jean Guéhenno ; translated and annotated by David Ball
 

The diary of prisoner 17326 : a boy's life in a Japanese labor camp / John K. Stutterheim
 

A diary of darkness : the wartime diary of Kiyosawa Kiyoshi / foreword by Marius Jansen ; edited and with an introduction by Eugene Soviak ; translated by Eugene Soviak and Kamiyama Tamie
 

Diary of a nightmare: Berlin, 1942-1945. / Translated from the German by Ewan Butler
 

Diary from the years of occupation, 1939-44 / Zygmunt Klukowski ; translated from Polish by George Klukowski ; edited by Andrew Klukowski and Helen Klukowski May ; foreword by Monty Noam Penkower
 

Death dealer : the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz / by Rudolf Höss ; edited by Steven Paskuly ; translated by Andrew Pollinger
 

Dearest Phylabe : letters from wartime England / by Edith Base ; edited by Benjamin F. Byerly and Catherine Ridder Byerly ; introduction by Stephen T. Powers
 

Correspondence. Selections http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014016243
 

The curtain [electronic resource] : witness and memory in wartime Holland / Henry G. Schogt
 

Crowns, crosses, and stars [electronic resource] : my youth in Prussia, surviving Hitler, and a life beyond / by Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller, Baroness von Sell
 

Cries for peace : experiences of Japanese victims of World War II / compiled by the Youth Division of Soka Gakkai

Sources 3

 

Country notes in wartime
 

Dear Helen : wartime letters from a Londoner to her American pen pal / edited by Russell M. Jones and John H. Swanson
 

Conquerors' road / Osmar White
 

Comfort women speak : testimony by sex slaves of the Japanese military : includes new United Nations human rights report / edited by Sangmie Choi Schellstede ; featuring photographs by Soon Mi Yu
 

Codebreakers : the inside story of Bletchley Park / edited by F.H. Hinsley, Alan Stripp
 

Christabel / Christabel Bielenberg
 

China changed my mind / by David Morris
 

Chinese diaries, 1941-1946 Robert Payne
 

China awake / by Robert Payne
 

Childhood in Germany during World War II : the story of a little girl / Karla Poewe
 

Child of the holocaust / Jack Kuper
 

Captured : my experiences as an ambulance driver and as a prisoner of the Nazis
 

Captive in Shanghai / Hugh Collar ; abridged by Pauline Woodroffe ; with an introduction by Kerrie L. MacPherson
 

Broken star, the Warburgs of Altona : their life in Germany and their death in the Holocaust / Gertrud Wenzel
 

Black days, white nights / Herman Carmel
 

Berlin underground, 1938-1945 / Ruth Andreas-Friedrich ; translated by Barrows Mussey
 

The Berlin diaries, 1940-1945 of Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov / edited and with a foreword by George Vassiltchikov ; and with an introduction by Christabel Bielenberg
 

Berlin diaries, 1940-1945 / Marie Vassiltchikov
 

Auschwitz : a doctor's eyewitness account / by Miklos Nyiszli ; translated by Tibère Kremer and Richard Seaver ; with a foreword by Bruno Bettelheim
 

Japan at war : an oral history / Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook
 

Au commencement était la fin; la dictature rouge à Bucarest. / Traduit du roumain par Claude Pascal
 

Dagboek geschreven in Vught. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011102957
 

Aspects of a life / Herman Laub
 

Als ob's ein Leben wär. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009062217
 

Anus mundi / Wiesław Kielar ; translated from the German by Susanne Flatauer
 

Og så kom befrierne. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011156522
 

And I am afraid of my dreams / Wanda Półtawska ; translated from the Polish by Mary Craig
 

Ancient furies : a young girl's struggles in the crossfire of World War II / Anastasia V. Saporito with Donald L. Saporito
 

Alone on Guadalcanal : a coastwatcher's story / Martin Clemens
 

Alone : Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk : defeat into victory / Michael Korda
 

The Allies on the Rhine, 1945-1950 / by Elena Skrjabina ; translated, edited, and with a preface by Norman Luxenburg ; foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury
 

Against the current [electronic resource] : the memoirs of Boris Ragula / as told to Inge Sanmiya
 

Against all odds : the story of Kurt Pick / Jennifer Henderson
 

Siege and survival; the Odyssey of a Leningrader / Elena Skrjabina. Foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury. Translated, edited, and with an afterword by Norman Luxenburg
 

After Leningrad : from the Caucasus to the Rhine, August 9, 1942-March 25, 1945 : a diary of survival during World War II / by Elena Skrjabina ; translated, edited, and with an introd. by Norman Luxenburg
 

Action in the East / by O.D. Gallagher
 

Across the abyss : diary entries for the year 1939-1940 / Paul Roubiczek ; translated by George Bird ; with an introduction by Erich Heller
 

Across the magic line [electronic resource] : growing up in Fiji / Patricia Page
 

Shirahata no shōjo. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90022646
 

Rosie the Riveter revisited : women, the war, and social change / Sherna Berger Gluck
 

Asszony a fronton. English
 

On Hitler's mountain : overcoming the legacy of a Nazi childhood / Irmgard A. Hunt