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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

 

Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American : an autobiography

 

Tōkon Iōjima. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010074578

 

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

 

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

 

Kike wadatsumi no koe. English

 

Kamikaze [electronic resource] : a Japanese pilot's own spectacular story of the famous suicide squadrons / Yasuo Kuwahara and Gordon T. Allred

 

In the faraway mountains and rivers = Harukanaru sanga ni : writings of the University of Tokyo students killed in World War II / compiled by Tōdai Gakusei Jichi-kai Senbotsu Gakusei Shuki Hensan Iinkai (Committee for Compiling the Writings of the University of Tokyo Students Killed in the War, the University of Tokyo Student Council) ; translated by Joseph L. Quinn, Midori Yamanouchi

 

Fading victory : the diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941-1945 / Masataka Chihaya, translator, with Donald M. Goldstein and Katherine V. Dillon ; foreword by Gordon W. Prange

 

F. Kikan : Japanese army intelligence operations in Southeast Asia during World War II / Fujiwara Iwaichi ; translated by Akashi Yoji

 

A writer at war : a Soviet journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945 / Vasily Grossman ; edited and translated by Antony Beevor & Luba Vinogradova

 

The years of war (1941-1945) Vassili Grossman. [Translated from the Russian by Elizabeth Donnelly and Rose Prokofiev]

 

Soviet staff officer. / Translated by Edward Fitzgerald

 

Opalennai︠a︡ i︠u︡nostʹ. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2001023920

 

I'll never go back; a Red Army officer talks / translated from the Russian by Nicholas Wreden

 

The unwomanly face of war : an oral history of women in World War II / Svetlana Alexievich ; translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

 

Without hindsight : reminiscences of a German naval ensign / Gerhard Both

 

A thousand shall fall. / [Translated by Norbert Guterman]

 

Stille Sterben. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010034909

 

Steel boats, iron hearts [electronic resource] : a U-boat crewman's life aboard U-505 / Hans Jacob Goebeler with John P. Vanzo

 

Soldat : reflections of a German soldier, 1936-1949 / by Siegfried Knappe and Ted Brusaw ; assisted by Susan Davis McLaughlin

 

Sieg Heil! : war letters of Tank Gunner Karl Fuchs, 1937-1941 / compiled, edited, and translated by Horst Fuchs Richardson ; historical commentary by Dennis E. Showalter

 

Requiem for a German past : a boyhood among the Nazis / Jurgen Herbst

 

Panzer leader / Heinz Guderian ; new introduction by Kenneth Macksey ; foreword by B.H. Liddell Hart ; translated from the German by Constantine Fitzgibbon

 

Panzer commander : the memoirs of Colonel Hans von Luck / Hans von Luck ; introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose

 

Neither fear nor hope; the wartime career of General Frido von Senger und Etterlin, defender of Cassino. / Translated from the German by George Malcolm. Foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart

 

Nasses Eichenlaub. English

 

Krim-Kurland. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99261681

 

I joined the Russians; a captured German flier's diary of the Communist temptation

 

"The Good old days" : the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders / edited by Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Volker Riess ; foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper ; translated by Deborah Burnstone

 

A German odyssey : the journal of a German prisoner of war / Helmut Hörner ; translated and edited by Allan Kent Powell

 

German generals of World War II : as I saw them / by F. W. von Mellenthin

 

The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945 / by Adolf Galland. Translated by Mervyn Savill; illustrated with photos

 

Parachute infantry : an American paratrooper's memoir of D Day and the fall of the Third Reich / David Kenyon Webster ; introduction by Stephen E. Ambrose

 

My queer war / James Lord

 

My private war : liberated body, captive mind : a World War II POW's journey / Norman Bussel

 

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

 

Mother was a gunner's mate : World War II in the Waves / Josette Dermody Wingo

 

Morotai : a memoir of war / by John Boeman

 

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

 

The Lucky Bastard Club : a B-17 pilot in training and in combat, 1943-45 / Eugene Fletcher

 

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

 

A life disturbed : my Pacific war revisited / Merrel Clubb

 

Life and death on the Greenland patrol, 1942 / by Thaddeus D. Novak ; edited by P.J. Capelotti ; foreword by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith

 

The Liberators, eyewitness accounts of the liberation of concentration camps : oral history testimonies of American liberators from the archives of the Center for Holocaust Studies / edited by Yaffa Eliach and Brana Gurewitsch

 

The liberators : America's witnesses to the Holocaust / Michael Hirsh

 

Letters to Lee : from Pearl Harbor to the war's final mission / James V. Edmundson ; edited by Celia Edmundson

 

Last flight from Singapore / by Arthur G. Donahue

 

Lapham's raiders : guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945 / Robert Lapham & Bernard Norling

 

Invasion diary / by Richard Tregaskis

 

Inside China, 1943-1945 : an eyewitness account of America's mission in Yenan / W. J. Peterkin

 

In hostile skies [electronic resource] : an American B-24 pilot in World War II / James M. Davis ; edited by David L. Snead

 

I saw the fall of the Philippines / Colonel Carlos P. Romulo

 

Hitler's soldier in the U.S. Army : an unlikely memoir of WW II / Werner H. von Rosenstiel

 

Guadalcanal remembered / Herbert Christian Merillat

Sources 2

 

Guadalcanal diary / by Richard Tregaskis

 

Green light! : a troop carrier squadron's war from Normandy to the Rhine / Martin Wolfe

 

Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific / William Manchester

 

The good fight continues [electronic resource] : World War II letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade / edited by Peter N. Carroll, Michael Nash, and Melvin Small

 

General Kenney reports; a personal history of the Pacific War / with maps by the author

 

G Company's war [electronic resource] : two personal accounts of the campaigns in Europe, 1944-1945 / Bruce E. Egger & Lee MacMillan Otts ; edited and with commentary by Paul Roley

 

From Omaha Beach to Dawson's Ridge [electronic resource] : the combat journal of Captain Joe Dawson / edited by Cole C. Kingseed

 

From Anzio to the Alps [electronic resource] : an American soldier's story / Lloyd M. Wells

 

Forward with Patton : the World War II diary of Colonel Robert S. Allen / Robert S. Allen ; edited by John Nelson Rickard

 

For you, Lili Marlene : a memoir of World War II / Robert Peters

 

A Flying Tiger's diary / by Charles R. Bond, Jr. and Terry Anderson

 

Foo, a Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun : the secret prison diary of Frank "Foo" Fujita / foreword and notes by Stanley L. Faulk ; introduction by Robert Wear

 

The flying Greek : an immigrant fighter ace's World War II odyssey with the RAF, USAAF, and French Resistance / Steve N. Pisanos

 

Flights of passage : reflections of a World War II aviator / Samuel Hynes

 

First of the many, a journal of action with the men of the Eighth air force / Captain John R. (Tex) McCrary and David E. Scherman

 

Flight to Black Hammer : the letters of a World War II pilot / Ted Withington

 

Fighter pilot : the first American ace of World War II / William R. Dunn ; foreword by Edward M. Coffman

 

The eighteen-year-old replacement [electronic resource] : facing combat in Patton's Third Army / R. Richard Kingsbury

 

Drive

 

Deliverance at Diepholz : A WWII Prisoner of War's Story / Jack Dower

 

Death march : the survivors of Bataan / by Donald Knox

 

A dangerous assignment : an artillery forward observer in World War II / William B. Hanford

 

Crossing the line [electronic resource] : a Bluejacket's odyssey in World War II / Alvin Kernan ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan ; introduction by Lawrence Stone

 

The daily life of an ordinary American soldier during World War II : the letters of Wilbur C. Berget / edited by Mark D. Van Ells ; with a foreword by Russell Horton

 

Coral and brass / by Holland M. Smith and Percy Finch

 

Dachau 29 April 1945 : the Rainbow liberation memoirs / edited by Sam Dann

 

Crusade in Europe

 

Company commander / by Charles B. MacDonald ; [introduction by Ronald H. Spector]

 

Doing battle : the making of a skeptic / Paul Fussell

 

A colonel in the armored divisions [electronic resource] : a memoir, 1941-1945 / William S. Triplet ; edited by Robert H. Ferrell

 

Close to glory : the untold stories of World War II / by the GIs who saw and reported the war, Yank Magazine correspondents ; [editor] Art Weithas

 

Code talker stories / by Laura Tohe ; photographs by Deborah O'Grady

 

Clean sweep / Roy M. Davenport

 

Citizen 13660 / drawings & text by Miné Okubo

 

Beacons in the night : with the OSS and Tito's partisans in wartime Yugoslavia / Franklin Lindsay

 

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

 

Caviar and commissars : the experiences of a U.S. naval officer in Stalin's Russia / by Kemp Tolley

 

Bomber pilot : a memoir of World War II / by Philip Ardery

 

Brave men

 

A boy no more / Paxton Davis

 

Blood on German snow : an African American artilleryman in World War II and beyond / Emiel W. Owens

 

Better than good : a Black sailor's war, 1943-1945 / Adolph W. Newton, with Winston Eldridge

 

The Atlantic war remembered : an oral history collection / edited by John T. Mason, Jr

Sources 3

 

Before they were the black sheep : Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-214 and the battle for the Solomon Islands / Carl O. Dunbar ; edited by Peter M. Dunbar

 

Battlefield surgeon : life and death on the front lines of World War II / Paul A. Kennedy ; edited by Christopher B. Kennedy ; foreword by Rick Atkinson ; afterword by John T. Greenwood

 

With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa / E.B. Sledge

 

African American voices from Iwo Jima : personal accounts of the battle / Clarence E. Willie ; with forewords by Frank E. Petersen, John R. Piatak

 

Diary of a Spitfire Pilot [electronic resource] / Granville Allen Mawer

 

The devil in France : my encounter with him in the summer of 1940 / by Lion Feuchtwanger, translated from the German by Elisabeth Abbott

 

Defending Leningrad : women behind enemy lines / edited and translated by Kazimiera J. Cottam

 

The day gone by : an autobiography / Richard Adams

 

A dance with death : Soviet airwomen in World War II / text and contemporary portraits by Anne Noggle ; introduction by Christine A. White

 

Corvettes Canada : convoy veterans of WWII tell their true stories / Mac Johnston

 

Corps commander / Sir Brian Horrocks, with Eversley Belfield and H. Essame

 

Commanding Canadians [electronic resource] : the Second World War diaries of A.F.C. Layard / edited by Michael Whitby

 

W tajnej słuzbie. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91050978

 

A child at arms

 

Changing enemies : the defeat and regeneration of Germany / Noel Annan

 

The burden of Hitler's legacy / Alfons Heck

 

The big show : New Zealanders, D-Day and the war in Europe / edited by Alison Parr

 

Between silk and cyanide : a codemaker's war, 1941-1945 / Leo Marks

 

Behind barbed wire : POW's in Houlton, Maine, during WWII / Milton A. Bailey ; [compiled and edited by Susan Bailey]

 

Battle for Burma / E. D. Smith

 

Balkan nightmare : a Transylvanian Saxon in World War II / Anna M. Wittmann ; as told by Friedrich (Fred) Umbrich

 

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

 

An army in exile : the story of the Second Polish corps. / With a foreword by Viscount Alexander of Tunis and an introduction by Harold Macmillan

 

Argument of kings / Vernon Scannell

 

And no birds sang / by Farley Mowat

 

All the fine young eagles : in the cockpit with Canada's Second World War fighter pilots / David L. Bashow ; foreword by Air Vice-Marshal J.E. "Johnnie" Johnson

 

Albanian assignment / David Smiley ; foreword by Patrick Leigh Fermor

 

Alamein to Zem Zem / Keith Douglas

 

Agent for the resistance : a Belgian saboteur in World War II / by Herman Bodson ; edited by Richard Schmidt

 

Santōtōge o koete : Taimen Tetsudō o kataru. English

三塔峠を越えて : 泰緬鉄道を語る. English

 

1940; the fall of France. / Translated from the French by Desmond Flower. With a pref. by Sir Basil Liddell Hart

 

800 days on the Eastern Front : a Russian soldier remembers World War II / Nikolai Litvin ; translated and edited by Stuart Britton

 

55 heures de guerre : écrit en captivité / Pierre Tisseyre

 

War as I knew it. / Annotated by Colonel Paul D. Harkins

 

All the brave promises : memories of aircraft woman 2nd class 2146391