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World War II: Catastrophe and Transformation

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

Sources

 

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]

 

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

 

Soviet staff officer. / Translated by Edward Fitzgerald

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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