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World War II: Catastrophe and Transformation

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

Sources

 

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

 

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

 

Three worlds of Larissa / by Larissa Kotyeva

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

The shame of survival : working through a Nazi childhood / Ursula Mahlendorf

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

I was on Corregidor; experiences of an American official's wife in the war-torn Philippines / by Amea Willoughby, with the assistance of Lenore Sorsby in the editing and organization of the material

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

The diary of Mary Berg : growing up in the Warsaw ghetto / edited by S.L. Shneiderman

 

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

 

Diary of a girl in Changi, 1941-45 [electronic resource] / Sheila Allan

 

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

 

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

 

The crucible [electronic resource] : an autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American guerrilla / Yay Panlilio ; edited by Denise Cruz

 

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

 

Country notes in wartime

 

Convoy to Auschwitz : women of the French resistance / Charlotte Delbo ; translated by Carol Cosman ; introduction by John Felstiner

 

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

 

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

 

Code name Christiane Clouet : a woman in the French Resistance / Claire Chevrillon ; translation by Jane Kielty Stott ; foreword by John F. Sweets

 

Christabel / Christabel Bielenberg

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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 and after/ Charlotte Delbo ; translated by Rosette C. Lamont ; with introduction by Lawrence A. Langer

 

None of us will return / Charlotte Delbo ; translated by John Githens

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

All but my life / by Gerda Weissmann Klein

 

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

 

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

 

Diario partigiano. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014017388

 

Asszony a fronton. English

 

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

 

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