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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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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 flight from Singapore / by Arthur G. Donahue

 

Last chapter / Ernie Pyle

 

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

 

Journey for Margaret

 

Invasion diary / by Richard Tregaskis

 

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

 

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

 

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 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

 

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

 

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

Sources 2

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Guadalcanal remembered / Herbert Christian Merillat

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

The fighting Liberty ships : a memoir / A.A. Hoehling

 

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

 

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

 

The fifty-two days : an NBC reporter's story of the battle that freed France / by W.W. Chaplin

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Sources 3

 

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

 

Dachau : the harrowing of hell / Marcus J. Smith

 

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

 

Crusade in Europe

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Clean sweep / Roy M. Davenport

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Brave men

 

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

 

A boy no more / Paxton Davis

 

Between the thunder and the sun

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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