 |
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki edited by Sylvia Engdahl. This series provides multiple views of momentous events
in recent history; each book helps readers develop critical thinking skills, increase
global awareness, and enhance their understanding of international perspectives about
historic events.; ; Using primary and secondary sources, each volume provides background
information on a significant event in modern world history, presents the controversies
surrounding the event, and offers first-person narratives from people who lived through
or were impacted by the event. All volumes in the series include an annotated table
of contents, a world map, a chronology, a glossary of key terms, a bibliography, and
a subject index. Call #: D767.25.H6 A88 2011 |
 |
Barbarossa: the first 7 days; Nazi Germany’s 1941 Invasion of the Soviet Union by Will Fowler. On 22 June 1941 The Germans launched their long-expected invasion
of the Soviet Union. Codenamed “”Operation Barbarossa,” after the famous 12th century
crusading emperor, what followed was perhaps the greatest clash of arms the world
has ever witnessed. With the aid of specially commissioned maps, Barbarossa: The First
7 Days describes the dramatic history of the first week of the invasion of the Soviet
Union. The book begins with an extensive overview of the Wehrmacht’s success up until
1941, followed by chapters outlining the German High Command’s plan of attack and
the defensive dispositions of the Soviet forces. The author goes on to describe the
opening bombardment, followed by detailed accounts of the three Army Groups’ fortunes
in the first week of the campaign. The book finishes with an analysis of the remainder
of the campaign and the ultimate failure of the Germans to destroy the Red Army and
capture Moscow. With first hand accounts from both sides, vivid photographs, detailed
fact boxes, and specially commissioned maps of the German advance and the Soviet defensive
actions, Barbarossa: The First 7 Days is a comprehensive examination of the first
week of the four-year war on the Eastern Front. Call #: D764.F6827 2004 |
 |
Berlin dance of death by Helmut Altner. This is one of the most vivid accounts of destruction and hopelessness
we have ever seen. It is a 17-year-old German conscript’s experiences in the defense
of Berlin during the spring of 1945 – the last desperate days of Berlin – annotated
and illustrated to show his part in the overall picture.
Altner’s account covers in detail recruit training on the front line after only ten
days in barracks, the execution of deserters and action against the Red Army and turncoat
German ‘Seydlitz’ Troops.
He tells of the retreat back to Berlin with full kit, escaping capture time after
time and the annihilation of nearly all his company in just one action.
He gives detailed descriptions of house to house fighting in the Spandau sector of
Berlin, the battle for the Olympic Stadium, the sacrifice of Hitler Youths, fighting
in the city’s subway tunnels and the disastrous attempt at a breakout to the west,
culminating in his final capture.
This is an account of war at its most basic and brutal level, of the collapse of everything
familiar and the hopelessness of imminent defeat. Call #: D811.5.A5613 2002 |
 |
Beyond valor: World War II’s Rangers and Airborne veterans reveal the heart of combat by Patrick K. O’Donnell. Presents firsthand accounts of the combat experience in Europe
during the Second World War through oral and E-mail histories by veteran paratroopers,
glidermen, Rangers, and 1st Special Service Force men. Call #: D769.347.O36 2001 |
 |
The Blitzkrieg campaigns: Germany’s “lightning war” strategy in action by John Delaney. Call #: D755.D46 1996 |
 |
Blood red snow: the memoirs of a German soldier on the Eastern Front by Günter K. Koschorrek. Gunter Koschorrek recounts the experiences he had while serving
as a machine-gunner on the Eastern Front during World War II. Call #: D811.K61413 2002 |
 |
Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder. Americans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before
it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept
killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered
six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, German and Soviet
killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in
darkness.
Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new
kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist
regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance
of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading
for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning
today.
Call #: DJK49.S69 2012 |
 |
Bonhoeffer: pastor, martyr, prophet, spy: a righteous gentile vs. the Third Reich by Eric Metaxas. From the New York Times bestselling author of Amazing Grace, this is a groundbreaking biography of Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century, the man who stood
up to Hitler. A definitive, deeply moving narrative, Bonhoeffer is a story of moral
courage in the face of the monstrous evil that was Nazism.
Call #: BX4827.B57 M48 2010 |
 |
A Bridge Too Far: The Classic History of the Greatest Battle of World War II (leatherbound collector’s edition )by Cornelius Ryan. A Bridge Too Far is Cornelius
Ryan’s masterly chronicle of the Battle of Arnhem, which marshalled the greatest armada
of troop-carrying aircraft ever assembled and cost the Allies nearly twice as many
casualties as D-Day.
In this compelling work of history, Ryan narrates the Allied effort to end the war
in Europe in 1944 by dropping the combined airborne forces of the American and British
armies behind German lines to capture the crucial bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem.
Focusing on a vast cast of characters—from Dutch civilians to British and American
strategists to common soldiers and commanders—Ryan brings to life one of the most
daring and ill-fated operations of the war. A Bridge Too Far superbly recreates the
terror and suspense, the heroism and tragedy of this epic operation, which ended in
bitter defeat for the Allies. Call #: D763.N4 R9 1987 |
 |
A century of violence in Soviet Russia by by Alexander N. Yakovlev; translated from the Russian by Anthony Austin ; foreword
by Paul Hollander. Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923 to 2005) was a member of the
Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He served as
Head of Ideology, and was the personal friend and confident of all the major figures
of the era. Initially committed to the ideals of Soviet Socialism, Yakovlev slowly
realised the system he upheld was guilty of monstrous crimes. He later became head
of the Presidential Committee for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression.
This is Yakovlev’s exposé of the violence of the regime to its people. It is a confrontational
work, tackling head on both the perpetrators of the crimes, and modern day apologists
for Soviet Russia. He chronicles in forensic detail the persecution on a vast scale
of children, peasants, the intelligentsia, Jews, minorities, and fellow socialists.
Yakovlev states grimly: “To descend step by step down seventy years of Bolshevik rule
into a dungeon strewn with human bones and reeking of dried blood is to see your faith
in humankind dissolve.” A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia is one of the greatest political works ever written, ranking alongside Primo Levi’s
“If This is a Man”, and Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipeligo”.
Call #: HX311.5.I3513 2002 |
 |
Citizen soldiers: the U.S Army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender
of Germany, June 7, 1944-May 7, 1945 by Stephen E. Ambrose. Tells the story of the soldiers of the U.S. Army and U.S. Army
Air Forces in the European Theater of Operations in World War II, following their
activities from D-Day on June 7, 1944 to Germany’s surrender eleven months later on
May 7, 1945. Call #: D756.A52 1997 |
 |
Dancing with the enemy: my family’s Holocaust secret by Paul Glaser. The gripping story of the author’s aunt, a Jewish dance instructor
who was betrayed to the Nazis by the two men she loved, yet managed to survive WWII
by teaching dance lessons to the SS at Auschwitz. Her epic life becomes a window into
the author’s own past and the key to discovering his Jewish roots. Call #: DS135 N6 G58413 2013 |
 |
D-Day, June 6, 1944: the climactic battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose.
D-Day is the epic story of men at the most demanding moment of their lives, when the
horrors, complexities, and triumphs of life are laid bare. Distinguished historian
Stephen E. Ambrose portrays the faces of courage and heroism, fear and determination—what
Eisenhower called “the fury of an aroused democracy”—that shaped the victory of the
citizen soldiers whom Hitler had disparaged. Call #: D756.5.N6 A455 1994 |
 |
Death march: the survivors of Bataan by Donald Knox. An account of the extraordinary strength and courage exhibited by
americans under the extreme and seemingly unending stress of three and a half years
of captivity under the Japanese on Bataan. Photographs and maps.
Call #: D805.J3 K59 |
 |
Death of a Nazi army: the Falaise pocket by William B. Breuer. Describes the weeks following D-Day when hundreds of thousands of Allied troops were
bottled up on a thin strip of ground along the landing beaches and an Allied bombardment
finally enabled the troops to advance and catch the Germans in a trap. Call #: D756.5.F34 B73 1985 |
 |
The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank. A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the
two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered
and taken to concentration camps. Includes entries previously omitted.
Call #: DS135.N6 F73313 1993 |
 |
East of the Sun: the epic conquest and tragic history of Siberia by Benson Bobrick. Chronicles the conquest and settlement of Siberia from eighteenth
century explorations to Stalin’s Gulag. Call #: DK761.B6 1992 |
 |
The Eastern Front by Duncan Anderson. Exploring in detail the German and Soviet armies in 1941, The
Eastern Front covers the most infamous campaigns and offensive operations of this
colossal campaign. In June 1941 it was Hitler’s fateful decision to launch Operation
Barbarossa, the largest invasion ever seen, when 138 German divisions invaded the
Soviet Union. Four years later, some two million German soldiers and 11 million Russian
soldiers had been killed in the course of their struggle, with names like Stalingrad
and Kursk burnt into the world’s consciousness. A selection of action photos plus
outstanding maps, illustrations, and art showcase the main battles, vehicles, uniforms,
maps, and equipment. Call #: D764.A5323 2001 |
 |
Encyclopedia of conflicts since World War II, editor, James Ciment; contributors, Kenneth L Hill, David MacMichael, Carl Skutsch.
Call #: REF D843.C568 1999 |
 |
Encyclopedia of invasions and conquests from ancient times to the present by Paul K. Davis. The Encyclopedia of Invasions and Conquests is a comprehensive guide to 192 invasions, conquests, battles, occupations, and military
leaders from ancient times to the present that takes readers on a journey that includes
the Roman conquest of Britain, the Portuguese colonization of Brazil, and the Iraqi
invasion of Kuwait. This engaging, lucid, carefully researched volume provides a thorough
review of each battle while examining the repercussions on infrastructure, tradition,
language, and more. Some entries cover civilizations and cultures (Han Dynasty, the
Huns, the Uzbeks), while others are devoted to selected historical figures (Julius
Caesar, Napoleon Buonaparte, Douglas MacArthur). Each chapter provides a map to help
readers locate key areas and geographical features. Other features include cross-references,
a cumulative bibliography, and a comprehensive subject index. Call #: REF D25.A2 D38 2006 |
 |
The end of the Russian Empire by Michael T. Florinsky. This economic, political, and social study by a distinguished
Russian authority uses a wealth of contemporary evidence—state documents, memoirs,
correspondence, statistics—to analyze “the forces which brought about the fall of
the Tsars and paved the way for Bolshevism” in the crucial years 1914-1917. Call #: DK265.F5 1961 |
 |
Europe since Hitler: the rebirth of Europe by Walter Laqueur. Call #: D1051.L3 1982 |
 |
A failed empire: the Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (New Cold War History) by Vladislav M. Zubok. In this widely praised book, Vladislav
Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating
either the Kremlin’s pragmatism or its aggressiveness. Explaining the interests, aspirations,
illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok
offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth century. Using
recently declassified Politburo records, ciphered telegrams, diaries, and taped conversations,
among other sources, Zubok offers the first work in English to cover the entire Cold
War from the Soviet side. A Failed Empire provides a history quite different from
those written by the Western victors. In a new preface for this edition, the author
adds to our understanding of today’s events in Russia, including who the new players
are and how their policies will affect the state of the world in the twenty-first
century. Call #: DK274.Z825 2007 |
 |
The fall of the Berlin Wall by Jeff T. Hay, book editor. Collects nineteen essays that offer varying perspectives
on the destruction of the Berlin Wall, discussing the history of the wall, controversies,
and the political and personal significance of the wall’s destruction. Call #: DD881.F33 2010 |
 |
Flyboys: a true story of courage by James Bradley. Examines the disappearance of eight American airmen shot down and
taken prisoner on the remote island of Chichi Jima in World War II and the secrecy
that surrounded the events for decades, and discusses the violence inflicted by both
sides in the Pacific war. Call #: Call #D804.J3 B73 2003 |
 |
Fighter pilot: the first American ace of World War II by William R. Dunn. This WWII fighter pilot memoir recounts the author’s many exploits
as a flying ace during WWII in the Normandy invasions, the Battle for France and beyond. Call #: D790.D86 1982 |
 |
Flags of our fathers by James Bradley. Presents an account of the Marines who came together during the
battle of Iwo Jima to raise the American flag in a moment that has been immortalized
in one of the most famous photographs of World War II. Call #: D767.99.I9 B73 2000 |
 |
Foot soldier: a combat infantryman’s war in Europe by Roscoe C (Roscoe Crosby) Blunt. Roscoe Blunt, Jr. chronicles the experiences he
had while serving as a combat infantryman during World War II, describing the physical
and emotional traumas he and the other men in his unit suffered during the war. Call #: D811.B56 2001 |
 |
Fortress without a roof: the Allied bombing of the Third Reich by Wilbur H.Morrison. A depiction of the air war over Europe during World War II discusses
the strategies of the Allied and German air forces and includes vivid descriptions
of the experiences of the pilots
Call #: D785.M67 1982 |
 |
The game of the foxes: the untold story of German espionage in the United States and
Great Britain during World War II by Ladislas Farago. Reveals the espionage network strung by German Nazi agents across
the U.S.A. and Britain during World War II. Based on captured files of Nazi Intelligence. Call #: D810.S7 F33 1971 |
 |
Germany, Hitler, and World War II: essays in modern German and world history by Gerhard L. Weinberg. A collection of essays in which the author examines specific
aspects of German history in the twentieth century, providing details on the background
of World War II, and discussing the Nazi system, and other topics related to the war
and its aftermath. Call #: D757.W384 1995 |
 |
The Gestapo: a history of Hitler’s police 1933-45 by Rupert Butler. This is a detailed history of Heinrich Himmler’s evil organization,
whose 20,000 members were responsible for the internal security of the Reich. Based
upon the Gestapo’s own archives and eye-witness accounts, the author charts the development
of the organization, its key figures, such as Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Muller,
its brutal methods, and how the Gestapo dealt with internal security, including the
various unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Hitler. Call #: DD256.5.B95 2004 |
 |
Ghost soldiers: the forgotten epic story of World War II’s most dramatic mission by Hampton Sides. Provides an account of the World War II mission undertaken by 121
select troops from the U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion in January 1945 to rescue 513
American and British prisoners, including survivors of the Bataan Death March, being
held in a camp in the Philippines. Call #: D767.4.S54 2001 |
 |
The GI bill: the law that changed America by Milton Greenberg. A photographic history of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of
1944, better known as “The GI Bill of Rights,” looking at how the law–which provided
unemployment insurance, as well as educational and home ownership opportunities to
returning World War II veterans–affected the society and economy of America. Call #: UB356.G74 1997 |
 |
A glorious way to die: the kamikaze mission of the battleship Yamato, April 1945 by Russell Spurr. Tells the story of the Yamato, the first of a class of superships
built by Japan before World War II, and its doomed mission against U.S. forces in
southern Okinawa in April 1945.
Call #: D777.5.Y33 S68 |
 |
Gotterdammerung 1945: Germany’s last stand in the east by Russ Schneider ; edited by Richard S. Warfield. In the past, few titles have covered
the final battles on the Eastern Front during the months of January through May 1945. Gotterdammerung 1945: Germanys Last Stand in the East, breaks new ground in this area bringing to light the desperate operations and battles
in and around Budapest, East & West Prussia, Pomerania, Silesia, and Courland. Call #: D764.S328 1998 |
 |
The greatest generation by Tom Brokaw. Pays tribute to the generation of Americans who fought in World War
II, telling the stories of individual men and women who, united by common purpose
and values, served their country overseas and returned to create modern America.
Call #: D811.A2 B746 1998 |
 |
The greatest generation speaks: letters and reflections by Tom Brokaw. Presents a selection of letters written to Tom Brokaw in response to
his book “The Greatest Generation,” in which he examines the lives and experiences
of the men and women of the Depression and World War II era who Brokaw credits with
building modern America. Call #: D811.A2 B747 1999 |
 |
Guadalcanal by Richard B. Frank. The battle at Guadalcanal—which began eight months to the day
after Pearl Harbor—marked the first American offensive of World War II. It was a brutal
six-month campaign that cost the lives of some 7,000 Americans and over 30,000 Japanese.
Call #: D767.98.F73 1990 |
 |
Guadalcanal diary by Richard Tregaskis. A reprint of the 1943 book in which news correspondent Richard
Tregaskis provides an eyewitness account of the World War II battles on Guadalcanal
in the fall of 1942. Call #: D767.98.T7 1943 |
 |
Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir by Feodor Vasilievich Mochulsk. The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia
Ginsberg, and Varlam Shalamov opened the world’s eyes to the terrors of the Soviet
Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written
from the perspective of an actual employee of the Secret police. In this riveting
memoir, superbly translated by Deborah Kaple, Fyodor Mochulsky describes being sent
to work as a boss at the forced labor camp of Pechorlag in the frozen tundra north
of the Arctic Circle.
Only 22 years old, he had but a vague idea of the true nature of the Gulag. What he
discovered was a world of unimaginable suffering and death, a world where men were
starved, beaten, worked to death, or simply executed. Mochulsky details the horrific
conditions in the camps and the challenges facing all those involved, from prisoners
to guards. He depicts the power struggles within the camps between the secret police
and the communist party, between the political prisoners (most of whom had been arrested
for the generic crime of “counter-revolutionary activities”) and the criminal convicts.
And because Mochulsky writes of what he witnessed with the detachment of the engineer
that he was, readers can easily understand how a system that destroyed millions of
lives could be run by ordinary Soviet citizens who believed they were advancing the
cause of socialism.
Mochulsky remained a communist party member his entire life – he would later become
a diplomat – but was deeply troubled by the gap between socialist theory and the Soviet
reality of slave labor and mass murder. This unprecedented memoir takes readers into
that reality and sheds new light on one of the most harrowing tragedies of the 20th
century. Call #: DK268.M59 A3 2012 |
 |
The haunted land: facing Europe’s ghosts after communism by Tina Rosenberg. Examines how it is part of the human condition to try and reconcile
acts committed under former systems of thought with contemporary ideology, focusing
on the attempts of the people and governments of Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic,and
Slovakia to face their Communist pasts. Call #: DJK51.R67 1995 |
 |
Hero of Bataan: the story of General Jonathan M. Wainwright by Duane P. Schultz. The story of the general who led U.S. Army troops in the Philippines
and in World War II. Call #: E745.W32 S38 |
 |
Heydrich: the face of evil by Mario R.Dederichs; translated by Geoffrey Brooks. Reinhard Heydrich was undeniably
one of the Führer’s most enthusiastic, brutal and ambitious henchmen and one of the
key architects of the Third Reich’s horrific genocide. He quickly rose through the
ranks of the Nazi party and became one of the key architects of the Third Reich’s
horrific genocide. Indeed, after his 1942 assassination, the murder of more than 2
million people at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblina was code-named ‘Action Reinhard’. Call #: DD247.H42 D4313 2006 |
 |
Hidden children of the Holocaust: Belgian nuns and their daring rescue of young Jews
from the Nazis by Suzanne Vromen. In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began
the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe haven
for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust,
these children found sanctuary with other families and schools–but especially in Roman
Catholic convents and orphanages. Call #: D804 48 V76 2008 |
 |
The hidden girl: a true story of the Holocaust by Lola Rein Kaufman. After deciding to donate the dress her mother had made for her
to a museum, Lola Rein Kaufman, survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, decides that it is
finally time to speak publicly about her experiences.
Call #: CC DS134.72.R67 K25 2008 |
 |
The hiding place by Corrie.Ten Boom. A thirty-fifth anniversary edition of the biography of Corrie
Ten Boom, a leader of the Dutch underground who hid scores of Jews from the Nazi’s
during World War II. Call #: D805.5.R38 T46 2006 |
 |
Hiroshima in America: fifty years of denial by Robert Jay Lifton. In a study of the impact of the use of the atomic bomb, two
historians argue that information and debate about President Harry Truman’s decision,
in August 1945, to drop the bomb on Japan have been suppressed in order to prevent
criticism of America. Call #: D767.25.H6 L42 1995 |
 |
History of United States naval operations in World War II (15 volumes) by Samuel Eliot Morison. Call #: REF D773.M67 1962 |
 |
Hitler and his generals: military conferences 1942-1945. English edition introduction by Gerhard L. Weinberg. The military conferences that
Hitler had twice daily with his staff, where he directed the war, were transcribed
by stenographers from 1942 to 1945 in the bunker. These authentic documents are the
only record kept by the Germans of their highest military decisions at the critical
moment when the war turned against them.
Call #: D757.H5813 2003 |
 |
Hitler’s Arctic War: the German campaigns in Norway, Finland, and the USSR 1940-1945 by Dr Chris Mann. Traces Hitler’s campaign on the northern periphery of Europe between
1940 and 1945, discussing the limitations of the soldiers and the unique military
strategies used on both sides. Call #: D763.N6 M26 2002 |
 |
Hitler’s last gamble: the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945 by Trevor Nevitt Dupuy. Chronicles the German attack in the Ardennes, which caught
the American forces off-guard. Call #: D756.5.A7 D86 1994 |
 |
Hitler’s scientists: science, war, and the devil’s pact by John Cornwell. A shocking account of Nazi science, and a compelling look at the
the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenth century, its preeminence in
the early twentieth, and the frightening developments that led to its collapse in
1945, this is the compelling story of German scientists under Hitler’s regime. Weaving
the history of science and technology with the fortunes of war and the stories of
men and women whose discoveries brought both benefits and destruction to the world,
Hitler’s Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomes
embroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and the war against terrorism,
as advances in biotechnology outstrip traditional ethics, this powerful account of
Nazi science forms a crucial commentary on the ethical role of science.
Call #: Q127.G3 C67 2003 |
 |
Hitler’s second book: the unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Call #: DD247.H5 H57 2003 |
 |
Hitler’s secret headquarters: the fuhrer’s wartime bases, from the invasion of France
to the Berlin bunker by Franz Wilhelm Seidler. This is the first and most comprehensive record of all Hitler’s
bunkers and command centres v including those built and used, those under construction,
and those that never got past planning v throughout World War II. Between 1939 and
1945 almost twenty Fuhrer Hauptquartier were completed. At the end of the war numerous
projects were being built and countless other suitable sites were being investigated.
While observing the crushing early campaigns in Poland and Yugoslavia from special
µFnhrer-trains’, Hitler made the decision that for the invasion of France, his foray
into the Soviet Union and the defence of the Atlantic coastline against Allied counter-attacks,
he needed solid, impenetrable headquarters. To that end 20,000 workers were employed
in the construction of a string of concrete bunkers that stretched from the middle
of France deep into the Ukraine. Throughout the course of the war the bunkers allowed
Hitler to evade successfully Allied detection and afforded him an extraordinary level
of personal protection. Franz W. Seidler and Dieter Zeigert have pieced together the
history of Hitler’s secret headquarters thanks to the diaries of Siegfried Schmelcher,
head of the construction project, and Leo Muller, site supervisor, both of whom had
unparalleled knowledge of a process that involved the movemmennt of over a quarter
of a million cubic metres of concrete. Their records include 158 illustrations, documents
and diagrams, as well as detailed structural and material references, cutaway plans,
safety instructions and codenames. This unique book is about an extraordinary and
previously undocumented aspect of World War II. Call #: DD247.H5 S45 2004 |
 |
Hitler’s shadow war: the Holocaust and World War II by Donald M McKale. Examines the entire history of Hitler’s racial war, including
the murderous role of the Wehrmacht in the extermination of Jews; Jewish resistance;
and the role of German citizens as both enablers and witnesses.
Call #: DS135.G3315 M43 2002 |
 |
The house of the dead: Siberian exile under the tsars by Daniel Beer. Looks at the history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars
(1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator
for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia”–Provided by publisher. Call #: HV9712.B44 2017 |
 |
I have lived a thousand years: growing up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson. What is death all about? What is life all about? So wonders
thirteen-year-old Elli Friedmann as she fights for her life in a Nazi concentration
camp. A remarkable memoir, I Have Lived a Thousand Years is a story of cruelty and
suffering, but at the same time a story of hope, faith, perseverance, and love. Call #: DS135 H93 J33 1999 |
 |
In the fire of the Eastern front: the story of a Dutch Waffen-SS Volunteer, 1941-45 by Hendrick C. Verton. Dutch SS accounts are very rare, particularly ones such as
this, covering recruitment, training, and frontline service first with 5th SS Panzer
Division ‘Wiking’, then later with SS Regiment Besslein. He not only informs and illustrates
the general politics of the time, but also explains how Dutch views of the Third Reich
changed so radically, discusses the founding of the Waffen-SS, the recruitment of
Dutch volunteers into it and why so many non-German Europeans volunteered to fight
and risk their lives for Germany. His discussion of the intensity of the SS’s training
is also noteworthy. Of course, the core of the book lies in Hendrik’s recollections
of his service on the Eastern Front between 1941 and 1945, initially with the 5th
SS Panzer Division ‘Wiking’. He offers the reader an impressive and fluid account,
whether it be describing the midst of battle, surviving 50 degrees below zero, frosts
and frozen ground, or traversing a quagmire of roads. Of particular historical interest
are his later recollections of service during 1944-45 with SS Regiment Besslein on
the Eastern Front, focusing on his participation in the epic defense of Breslau –
this siege remains little-known in the West, and first-hand accounts such as Hendrik’s
are even scarcer, making this title a worthy addition to the literature on the Second
World War. Call #: D757.85.V4613 2010 |
 |
In the shadows of war: an American pilot’s odyssey through occupied France and the
camps of Nazi Germany. by Thomas Childers. In a small village in France during the fateful summer of 1944,
three disparate lives converged in an unlikely secret alliance. Just after D-Day,
Colette Florin hid downed American bomber pilot Roy Allen in her rooms above the tiny
girls’ school where she taught. While concealing him, she was drawn deeper into the
clandestine world of the regional underground. There she met the local leader of the
Resistance: Pierre Mulsant, a young Frenchman trained by the British secret service
who had parachuted into France in the spring of 1944. Drawn from extensive interviews,
letters, and archival documents in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States,
In the Shadows of War follows the fateful twists and turns of Allen’s journey from
rural France to Paris, capture by the Gestapo, imprisonment in a Nazi concentration
camp and then a POW camp, and eventual liberation. It is an unforgettable, profoundly
moving human drama of love and courage and sacrifice. — The Washington Post Book World.
Call #: D802.F8 C476 2003 |
 |
Indestructible: the unforgettable story of a Marine hero at the Battle of Iwo Jima. by Jack Lucas with D.K. Drum. Tells the story of Jack Lucas, who fraudulently joined
the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942 at the age of fourteen and became the youngest recipient
of the Medal of Honor as a result of his heroic actions in the Battle of Iwo Jima
three years later. Call #: D767.99.I9 L82 2006 |
 |
Into the rising sun: in their own words, World War II’s Pacific veterans reveal the
heart of combat reported by Patrick K O’Donnell. A collection of personal accounts about the experiences
of World War II soldiers fighting in the Pacific which were gathered from Patrick
O’Donnell’s website. Call #: D811.A2 I58 2002 |
 |
Iron curtain: the crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum. In the much-anticipated follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag, acclaimed journalist Anne Applebaum delivers a groundbreaking history of how Communism
took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion
the individuals who came under its sway. Iron Curtain describes how, spurred by Stalin and his secret police, the Communist regimes of
Eastern Europe were created and what daily life was like once they were complete.
Drawing on newly opened East European archives, interviews, and personal accounts
translated for the first time, Applebaum portrays in chilling detail the dilemmas
faced by millions of individuals trying to adjust to a way of life that challenged
their every belief and took away everything they had accumulated. As a result the
Soviet Bloc became a lost civilization, one whose cruelty, paranoia, bizarre morality,
and strange aesthetics Applebaum captures in these electrifying pages.
Call #: DJK45.S65 A67 2013
|
 |
Iwo Jima 1945: the Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi by Derrick Wright. An illustrated overview of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima
that describes the commanders, forces, and plans of each side, chronicles the battle
itself, and discusses its aftermath.
Call #: D767.99.I9 W75 2001
|
 |
The journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp by Barry Denenberg. Twelve-year-old Ben
Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp
in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II. Call #: CC PZ7.D4135 Jn 1999 |
 |
The journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: a World War II soldier by Walter Dean Myers. A seventeen-year-old soldier from central Virginia records his
experiences in a journal as his regiment takes part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy
and subsequent battles to liberate France.
Call #: CC PZ7.M992 Jp 2003 |
 |
Journey into the whirlwind by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg; translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. An English
translation of the Russian text in which the author recalls her arrest in 1937 as
a Trotskyist terrorist counterrevolutionary, her interrogation, and her eighteen years
in Russia’s prison and labor camps. Call #: DK268.3.G513 1975 |
 |
Jungleland: a mysterious lost city, a WWII spy, and a true story of deadly adventure by Christopher S. Stewart. Christopher S. Stewart chronicles his present-day journey
to find Ciudad Blanca, the legendary White City rumored to exist in the rain forests
of Nicaragua’s and Honduras’ Mosquito Coast, following in the footsteps of the explorer
and World War II spy Theodore Morde, who set out on the same journey on April 6, 1940. Call #: F1509.M9 S74 2013 |
 |
Killing ground on Okinawa: the battle for Sugar Loaf Hill by James H. Hallas. On May 12, 1945, the 6th Marine Division was nearing Naha, capital
of Okinawa. To the division’s front lay a low, loaf-shaped hill. It looked no different
from other hills seized with relative ease over the past few days. But this hill,
soon to be dubbed, Sugar Loaf, was very different indeed. Part of a complex of three
hills, Sugar Loaf formed the western anchor of General Mitsuru Ushijima’s Shuri Line,
which stretched from coast to coast across the island. Sugar Loaf was critical to
the defense of that line, preventing U.S. forces from turning the Japanese flank.
Over the next week, the Marines made repeated attacks on the hill losing thousands
of men to death, wounds, and combat fatigue. Not until May 18 was Sugar Loaf finally
seized. Two days later, the Japanese mounted a battalion-sized counterattack in an
effort to regain their lost position, but the Marines held.
Ironically, these losses may not have been necessary. General Lemuel Shepherd, Jr.,
had argued for an amphibious assault to the rear of the Japanese defense line, but
his proposal was rejected by U.S. Tenth Army Commander General Simon Bolivar Buckner.
That refusal led to a controversy that has continued to this day. Call #: D767.99.O45 H35 1996 |
 |
Knight’s cross: a life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel by David Fraser. Erwin Rommel’s instinct for battle and leadership places him among
the great commanders of history. In this definitive biography, David Fraser, an acclaimed
biographer and distinguished soldier, looks at Rommel’s career and shows how wild
and superficially undisciplined Rommel’s bold style of leadership could be, and how
it inspired the men under his command to attack with ferocity and pursue with tenacity—qualities
that served him well in his great battles in the North African desert and throughout
his entire military career. Fraser also thoroughly explores the question of Rommel’s
possible involvement in the plot against Hitler and the reason for his forced suicide,
even though there was no criminal evidence against him. Revealing his failings as
well as his genius, Knight’s Cross is a fascinating biography of a soldier whose distinguished career has become a part
of history. Call #: DD247.R57 F73 1994 |
 |
The Knights of Bushido: a short history of Japanese war crimes by Russell of Liverpool, Edward Frederick Langley Russell, Baron, 1895
The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies’ official justice;
Lord Russell of Liverpool’s sensational bestselling books on Germany’s and Japan’s
war crimes decided the public’s opinion. The Knights of Bushido, Russell’s account
of Japanese brutality in the Pacific in World War II, carefully compiles evidence
given at the trials themselves. Russell describes how the noble founding principles
of the Empire of Japan were perverted by the military into a systematic campaign of
torture, murder, starvation, rape, and destruction. Notorious incidents like the Nanking
Massacre and the Bataan Death March emerge as merely part of a pattern. Call #: D804.J3 R8 2002
|
 |
The Lady Be Good: mystery bomber of World War II by Dennis E. McClendon. Describes the official search for the Lady Be Goodi> and its 9 man crew which vanished in 1943 after bombing Naples. Call #: D790.M25 1982 |
 |
The last escape: the untold story of allied prisoners of war in Europe, 1944-45 by John Nichol. Draws on the testimony of surviving veterans to relate the experiences
of hundreds of thousands of American and British prisoners of war in camps across
Nazi-controlled Europe, who were forced at gunpoint to march hundreds of miles along
the Death March in the wake of the D-Day landings. Call #: D805.G3 N496 2003 |
 |
The “last” Nazi: the life and times of Dr. Joseph Mengele by Gerald Astor, The definitive investigation into the life and unspeakable crimes
of the Nazi “Angel of Death” explores how he rose to power in the Third Reich and
how he evaded capture since World War II.
Call #: DD247.M46 A87 1985
|
 |
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: the age of social catastrophe by Robert Gellately. In Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, acclaimed historian Robert Gellately
focuses on the dominant powers of the time, the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, but
also analyzes the catastrophe of those years in an effort to uncover its political
and ideological nature. Arguing that the tragedies endured by Europe were inextricably
linked through the dictatorships of Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, Gellately explains
how the pursuit of their “utopian” ideals turned into dystopian nightmares. Dismantling
the myth of Lenin as a relatively benevolent precursor to Hitler and Stalin and contrasting
the divergent ways that Hitler and Stalin achieved their calamitous goals, Gellately
creates in Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler a vital analysis of a critical period in modern
history. Call #: JC495 G45 2007
|
 |
Life and death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche. In a masterful work, Peter Fritzsche deciphers the puzzle of Nazism’s
ideological grip. Its basic appeal lay in the Volksgemeinschaft―a “people’s community”
that appealed to Germans to be part of a great project to redress the wrongs of the
Versailles treaty, make the country strong and vital, and rid the body politic of
unhealthy elements. The goal was to create a new national and racial self-consciousness
among Germans. For Germany to live, others―especially Jews―had to die. Diaries and
letters reveal Germans’ fears, desires, and reservations, while showing how Nazi concepts
saturated everyday life. Fritzsche examines the efforts of Germans to adjust to new
racial identities, to believe in the necessity of war, to accept the dynamic of unconditional
destruction―in short, to become Nazis. Call #: DD256 5 F747 2009 |
 |
The life and times of Reinhard Heydrich by G. S.Graber. The efficient and coldly ruthless Reinhard Heydrich was in many respects
the most sinister of the Nazis. He had no known eccentricities, remarkable personality
traits or even character defects — except he was tormented by the possibility that
he might be Jewish, and, as one of the top three officials in both the Gestapo and
the SD (Secret Service), he was probably responsible for more evil acts than any other
Nazi but one. He was feared even by the other Nazi leaders– again, except for Hitler.
As Eichmann’s boss and probably the chief architect of the “final solution,” he was
the epitome of the Nazi. Call #: DD247.H42 G7 1980 |
 |
Luftwaffe by Williamson Murray. This book is an in-depth analysis of the Luftwaffe in the Second
World War, using previously untapped German archives and newly-released ‘Ultra’ intelligence
records. It looks at the Luftwaffe within the context of the overall political decision-making
process within the Third Reich. It is especially valuable for its careful study of
industrial production and pilot losses in the conduct of operations. Call #: D787.M84 1996 |
 |
Man’s search for meaning: an introduction to logotherapy by Viktor Emil Frankl. Few books in recent decades have had the continuing impact
of Dr. Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning — the classic bestseller now considered
to be one of the most important contributions to psychiatry since the writing of Freud.
In it, Dr. Frankl gives a moving account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi
death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to his discovery of his
theory of logotherapy. A profound revelation born out of Dr. Frankl’s years as a prisoner
in Auschwitz and other concentration camps, logotherapy is a modern and positive approach
to the mentally or spiritually disturbed personality. Stressing man’s freedom to transcend
suffering and find a meaning to his life regardless of his circumstances, it is a
theory which, since its conception, has exercised a tremendous influence upon the
entire field of psychiatry and psychology. Here, Dr. Frankl not only describes the
genesis and development of logotherapy but also explains its basic concepts, and in
this revised and enlarged edition, has included a new chapter, entitled “The Case
for a Tragic Optimism,” in which he updates theoretical conclusions of the book. The
result is an invaluable work by one of the world’s preeminent psychiatrists. Call #: D810 J4 F72713 1984 |
 |
Masters of death: the SS-Einsatzgruppen and the invention of the Holocaust by Richard Rhodes. Explores the role the Einsatzgruppen, the professional killing
squads deployed in Poland and the Soviet Union early in World War II, played in the
Holocaust. Call #: D804.3.R53 2002 |
 |
Napoleon and Hitler: a comparative biography by Desmond Seward. Compares and contrasts the two infamous dictators by considering
their origin, their obsession with being accepted, and their dream of conquering Europe. Call #: DC203.9.S54 1989 |
 |
Natasha’s dance: a cultural history of Russia by Orlando Figes. History on a grand scale – an enchanting masterpiece that explores
the making of one of the world’s most vibrant civilizations. A People’s Tragedy, wrote Eric Hobsbawm, did ‘more to help us understand the Russian Revolution than
any other book I know’. Now, in Natasha’s Dance, internationally renowned historian Orlando Figes does the same for Russian culture,
summoning the myriad elements that formed a nation and held it together.Beginning
in the 18th century with the building of St. Petersburg – a ‘window on the West’ –
and culminating with the challenges posed to Russian identity by the Soviet regime,
Figes examines how writers, artists and musicians grappled with the idea of Russia
itself – its character, spiritual essence and destiny. He skillfully interweaves the
great works – by Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, and Chagall – with folk embroidery, peasant
songs, religious icons and all the customs of daily life, from food and drink to bathing
habits to beliefs about the spirit world.
Figes’ characters range high and low: the revered Tolstoy, who left his deathbed to
search for the kingdom of God, as well as the serf girl Praskovya, who became Russian
opera’s first superstar and shocked society by becoming her owner’s wife. Like the
European-schooled countess Natasha performing an impromptu folk dance in Tolstoy’s
War and Peace, the spirit of ‘Russianness’ is revealed by Figes as rich and uplifting,
complex and contradictory – a powerful force that unified a vast country and proved
more lasting than any Russian ruler or state. Call #: DK32.F54 2002 |
 |
Nazi Ghost Train (Series: History’s mysteries) Call #: DVD AG243.H97 2011 |
 |
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K Massie. Biography of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, the last
of the Romanovs to rule Russia, describing their life together and the fall of Imperial
Russia which cost them their lives. Call #: DK258.M3 1967 |
 |
Night by Elie Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical
account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation
by Marion Wiesel, Elie’s wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir
in the language and spirit truest to the author’s original intent. And in a substantive
new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate
dedication to ensuring that the world never forgets man’s capacity for inhumanity
to man. Night offers much more than a litany of the daily terrors, everyday perversions,
and rampant sadism at Auschwitz and Buchenwald; it also eloquently addresses many
of the philosophical as well as personal questions implicit in any serious consideration
of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be. Call #: D810 J4 W513 |
 |
No ordinary time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: the home front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Discusses the distinct leadership roles of the President
and First Lady during the war years. Call #: E807.G66 1994 |
 |
Now the hell will start: one soldier’s flight from the greatest manhunt of World War
II by Brendan I. Koerner. Describes the life and military experiences of Herman Perry,
who was assigned to a segregated labor battalion in South Asia in 1943, but after
months of harsh conditions, and poor treatment from his superior officers, Perry shot
an unarmed white lieutenant and fled into the jungle. Call #: D810.N4 P4756 2008 |
 |
Okinawa 1945: the last battle by Gordon L. Rottman. An illustrated overview of the World War II battle of Okinawa
that describes the commanders, forces, and plans of each side, chronicles the battle
itself, and discusses its aftermath. Call #: D767.99.O45 R68 2002 |
 |
Ordinary men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland by Christopher R Browning, is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the
German Order Police, which was responsible for mass shootings as well as round-ups
of Jewish people for deportation to Nazi death camps in Poland in 1942. Browning argues
that most of the men of RPB 101 were not fanatical Nazis but, rather, ordinary middle-aged,
working-class men who committed these atrocities out of a mixture of motives, including
the group dynamics of conformity, deference to authority, role adaptation, and the
altering of moral norms to justify their actions. Very quickly three groups emerged
within the battalion: a core of eager killers, a plurality who carried out their duties
reliably but without initiative, and a small minority who evaded participation in
the acts of killing without diminishing the murderous efficiency of the battalion
whatsoever. Call #: D804 3 B77 2001 |
 |
The Oster conspiracy of 1938: the unknown story of the military plot to kill Hitler
and avert World War II by Terry Parssinen. Chronicles the events surrounding an aborted coup to eliminate
Hitler, led by Lieutenant Colonel Hans Oster of German Military Intelligence in 1938.
Call #: DD247.O85 P37 2003 |
 |
Our finest day: D-Day: June 6, 1944 by Mark Bowden. An interactive history of D-Day, June 6, 1944, the battle that marked
the turning point in World War II, providing an account of the military action, as
well as the recollections of soldiers and officers, and featuring pull-out reproductions
of a variety of documents including maps, military plans, diary pages, newspaper reports,
and other items. Call #: D756.5.N6 B64 2002 |
 |
The pharmacist of Auschwitz: the untold story of Victor Capesius by Patricia Posner, The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is the little known story of Victor Capesius, a Bayer pharmaceutical salesman from
Romania who, at the age of 35, joined the Nazi SS in 1943 and quickly became the chief
pharmacist at the largest death camp, Auschwitz.
The Pharmacist of Auschwitz is much more than a personal account of Capesius because it provides a spellbinding
glimpse inside the devil’s pact made between the Nazis and Germany’s largest conglomerate,
I.G. Farben, and its Bayer pharmaceutical subsidiary. The story is one of murder and
greed with its roots in the dark heart of the Holocaust. It is told through Nazi henchmen
and industrialists turned war criminals, intelligence agents and zealous prosecutors,
and intrepid concentration camp survivors and Nazi hunters. Call #: DD247.P676 2017 |
 |
A people’s tragedy: the Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes. History of the Russian Empire leading up to the Communist revolution
depicting the forces which made the Czar’s rule crumble and argues that the revolution
and its aftermath was a tragic failure for the people it was supposed to benefit. Call #: DK260.F54 1997 |
 |
Ravensbrück: life and death in Hitler’s concentration camp for women by Sarah Helm. Months before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler—prime
architect of the Holocaust—designed a special concentration camp for women, located
fifty miles north of Berlin. Only a small number of the prisoners were Jewish. Ravensbrück
was primarily a place for the Nazis to hold other inferior beings: Jehovah’s Witnesses,
Resistance fighters, lesbians, prostitutes, and aristocrats—even the sister of New
York’s Mayor LaGuardia. Over six years the prisoners endured forced labor, torture,
starvation, and random execution. In the final months of the war, Ravensbrück became
an extermination camp. Estimates of the final death toll have ranged from 30,000 to
90,000. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain. Now,
using testimony unearthed since the end of the Cold War and interviews with survivors
who have never talked before, Sarah Helm takes us into the heart of the camp. The
result is a landmark achievement that weaves together many accounts, following figures
on both sides of the prisoner/guard divide. Chilling, compelling, and deeply necessary,
Ravensbrück is essential reading for anyone concerned with Nazi history. Call #: D805.5.R38 H45 2016 |
 |
Red famine: Stalin’s war on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the
worst crimes of the twentieth century and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat
to the political order in the twenty-first.
In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second
Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective
farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history.
At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of
sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political
problem. In Red Famine , Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians
who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because
the state deliberately set out to kill them. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil. Call #: DK508.8374.A67 2018 |
 |
Red storm on the Reich: the Soviet march on Germany, 1945 by Christopher Duffy. “Essentially, the Second World War was won and lost on the Eastern
Front,” writes renowned historian Christopher Duffy. Until this book, however, the
most dramatic events surrounding this part of the war have been little understood.
Utilizing a wealth of recently released Soviet materials from Moscow archives, and
cross-referencing these with German accounts, Duffy has uncovered a military campaign
of unprecedented scale and intensity during which thirty million lives were lost.
Red Storm on the Reich brings to life not only the Russian military assault on Germany,
but also the human drama behind the epic sieges of Danzig, Kolberg, and Breslau. Duffy’s
gripping narrative is essential reading for all those interested in modern European
history.
On the night of January 11, 1945, fog, low clouds, and blizzards reduced visibility
at times to literally zero along the Sandomierz bridgehead. So the German troops did
not notice tanks, assault guns, and towed artillery pieces moving in position by the
thousands along the east bank–the Russian side–of the Vistula River. Within seconds
after the order to fire was given by the Soviet commander, General Konev, the air
became incandescent with unnatural light. A sky of fire and smoke lowered over the
country across the river: Houses flared up like torches, bunkers collapsed, roads
were broken up, and men were ripped apart. The ferocity of the first attack shook
the Germans so badly that they thought they were dealing with the main assault, and
not just a reconnaissance in force. So they were completely unprepared for the principal
attack and the horrors it held. Thus began the Red Storm on the Reich–the largest,
costliest, and fastest-moving military operation in European history. Call #: D764.D797 1991 |
 |
The rise and fall of the Third Reich: a history of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer. No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence
about its birth and destruction as the Third Reich. When the bitter war was over,
and before the Nazis could destroy their files, the Allied demand for unconditional
surrender produced an almost hour-by-hour record of the nightmare empire built by
Adolph Hitler. This record included the testimony of Nazi leaders and of concentration
camp inmates, the diaries of officials, transcripts of secret conferences, army orders,
private letters—all the vast paperwork behind Hitler’s drive to conquer the world.
The famed foreign correspondent and historian William L. Shirer, who had watched and
reported on the Nazis since 1925, spent five and a half years sifting through this
massive documentation. The result is a monumental study that has been widely acclaimed
as the definitive record of one of the most frightening chapters in the history of
mankind. Here is the complete story of Hitler’s empire, one of the most important
stories ever told, written by one of the men best equipped to write it.
Call #: DD256.5.S48 2004 |
 |
The scourge of the Swastika; a short history of Nazi war crimes. by Lord Russell of Liverpool. This factual account of German war crimes of World War
II is a formidable indictment of Nazi brutality and of the monstrous organization
which so terrorized occupied Europe and murdered at least 12 million civilians. Along
with The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes (Call #: D804.J3 R8 2002), by the same author, it was a phenomenal bestseller when first published.
Drawing on documentary evidence submitted to the Nuremberg Trials and brilliantly
written by an expert intimately connected to the prosecution of war criminals, this
searing condemnation of the Third Reich’s crimes is factual, objective and unstinting
in its efforts to expose the truth behind real or alleged atrocities. It examines
Hitler’s instruments of tyranny and repression the SS, Gestapo and Army; German crimes
against prisoners of war; outrages committed on the high seas; crimes against civilian
populations; the mass use of slave labor; the concentration camps; and the “Final
Solution.” Call #: D804.G4 R83 1954 |
 |
The Second World War (The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing
the Ring, Triumph & Tragedy, 6 volume set, 1948-1953) by Sir Winston Churchill. Reviews
the hostilities of the Second World War and makes clear-structured narration from
the two angles of techniques and human nature in the war. In region, he divides the
war into the eastern front, the western front and the Pacific battlefield and respectively
unfolds his narration according to the time. First, he focuses on the world political
environment and the strategic dilemma the leaders were facing to as well as the influences
their decisions brought to the course of the war; then he lays emphasis on the analysis
of 6 new and important war forms with battles such as Battle of Britain, Crete airborne
battle, etc, as well as the key to the victory of these battles. Call #: D743.C47 2000 |
 |
The secret hunters by Ranulph Fiennes. As a child Derek Jacobs was an inmate of a Nazi prison camp and
saw his mother horrifically abused. Now forging a career in the environment movement
he is co opted by the Secret Hunters, a group who track down the perpetrators of genocide
to exact their revenge. Call #: PR6056.I4594 S43 2012 |
 |
SS: hell on the Eastern front: the Waffen-SS war in Russia, 1941-1945 by Christopher Ailsby. Read what it was like to take part in Operation “Barbarossa,”
the opening assault against Russia in the summer of 1941, when the Waffen-SS fought
its way to the very gates of Moscow; the first dreadful winter in Russia, during which
temperatures dropped to 40 degrees below zero; the clash of massed armor at Kursk;
and other epic encounters of the war in the East. However, this book is more than
an account of the battles and campaigns of the Waffen-SS in the East: it also examines
the recruitment and organization of those foreign legions of the SS that fought on
the Eastern front. Call #: D764.A4435 1998 |
 |
Stalin. Volume I, Paradoxes of power, 1878-1928 by Stephen Kotkin. A biography that reveals the character of Stalin and gives a view
of the Bolshevik regime’s inner geography of power, with materials from Soviet military
intelligence and the secret police, and tracks the Bolshevik revolution’s structural
paranoia, a Communist regime in a capitalist world, surrounded and penetrated by enemies.
Call #: DK268.S8 K65 2014 |
 |
Stalin. Volume 2, Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 by Stephen Kotkin. Looks at the life of the Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin beginning
in 1929, discussing his systematic conversion of Europe’s largest predominantly peasant
economy into collectivizaton, his role during World War II and more.
Call #: DK268.S8 K65 2014 |
 |
Stalingrad: the infernal cauldron, 1942-1943 by Stephen Walsh. The German invasion of Russia was Hitler’s biggest gamble in his
quest for “Lebensraum” in the East–and it was at Stalingrad that his gamble failed.
Stalingrad: The Infernal Cauldron is a detailed history of Hitler’s great failure,
and a comprehensive account of one of the most important battles of World War II.
With full-color strategic maps, 170 black and white photographs, over half of which
have never before been published, and detailed appendices that contain information
on orders of battle, losses, and equipment, Stalingrad is an exhaustive account of
the battle that bled the German army dry, and turned the war in the East decisively
against the Germans.
Call #: D764.3.S7 W35 2000 |
 |
Stalingrad: memories and reassessments by Joachim Wieder and Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel ; translated by Helmut Bogler. Hitler’s
greatest blunder, many experts agree, was his attempt to conquer Stalingrad and deny
Russia the Volga River as a trade route. The most famous analysis of these ill-fated
events, translated into English for the first time, features new revisions. Much more
than a routine account of battle, here is a stunning review of the motivations, misplaced
principles, and misguided claims that led to one of the most disastrous defeats in
history. Call #: D764.3.S7 W513 1995 |
 |
Surviving Hitler: a boy in the Nazi death camps by Andrea Warren. A biography of Jack Mandelbaum, who survived Nazi concentration
camps when he was a teenager. Call #: CC DS135.P63 M289 2002 |
 |
Survivors: true stories of children in the Holocaust by Allan Zullo and Mara Bovsun. Gripping and inspiring, these true stories of bravery,
terror, and hope chronicle nine different children’s experiences during the Holocaust.
These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled
into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. In a time of great horror,
these children each found a way to make it through the nightmare of war. Some made
daring escapes into the unknown, others disguised their true identities, and many
witnessed unimaginable horrors. But what they all shared was the unshakable belief
in– and hope for– survival. Their legacy of courage in the face of hatred will move
you, captivate you, and, ultimately, inspire you. Call #: CC D804.48.Z85 2004 |
 |
Tears in the darkness: the story of the Bataan Death March and its aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman. Chronicles the experiences of Ben Steele,
an aspiring artist who faced danger, humiliation, imprisonment, and forced labor during
World War II after he was captured by enemy forces and held as a prisoner of war. Call #: D805.P6 N67 2010 |
 |
The third reich (15 volumes) by the editors of Time-Life books. Discusses the experiences of ordinary
people who were swept up in, or resisted Hitler’s movement, examining its politics
and wartime conduct, and exploring the consequences of the Nazi regime for Germany,
the Jews, Europe, and the world. Call #: REF D785.M3 |
 |
The Third Reich: a new history by Michael Burleigh. An international history of Nazi Germany, discussing the experiences
of ordinary people who were swept up in, or resisted Hitler’s movement, examining
its politics and wartime conduct, and exploring the consequences of the Nazi regime
for Germany, the Jews, Europe, and the world. Call #: DD256.5.B94 2000 |
 |
Through hell for Hitler: a dramatic first-hand account of fighting on the Eastern
Front with the Wehrmacht by Henry Metelmann. Having in mind that about 9 out of 10 German soldiers who died
in WWII were killed in Russia, the book throws light on the largely unreported heroic
sacrifices of Soviet soldiers and civilians often against seemingly hopeless odds,
without which Europe might well have fallen to fascism. It deals less with grand strategies,
tactics and military technicalities than with the human involvement of ordinary people,
from both sides, who were caught up in that enormity of a tragedy, that epic struggle
in Russia. It throws light on the chasm which existed between officers and men in
the sharply class-divided Wehrmacht with most of the top rank officers having been
drawn from the old imperial aristocracy. Call #: D764.M415 2001 |
 |
Touched with fire: the land war in the South Pacific by Eric Bergerud. Examines the ground war fought between Japan and the Allies in the
South Pacific battlefield that encompassed New Guinea, New Britain, and the Solomon
Islands, focusing on the period beginning in the summer of 1942, through early 1944. Call #: D767.9.B47 1996 |
 |
Western Front by Ian Baxter. Action photographs help describe the campaigns of the Waffen-SS, the
military arm of Heinrich Himmler’s SS, against the Allies in the west from 1940 to
1945.
Call #: D756.B37 2003 |
 |
What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank: stories by Nathan Englander. Call #: PS3555.N424 W47 2012 |
 |
With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge. Describes the author’s experiences after landing on the beach at Peleliu
in 1944 with the Marines. Call #: D767.99.P4 S55 |
 |
The years of extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer. Analyzes the persecution and murder of Jews throughout occupied
Europe during World War II, examining German extermination policies and measures and
their reliance on the cooperation of local authorities. Call #: D804.3.F753 2008 |
 |
The Zookeeper’s Wife. by Diane Ackerman. Tells the true story of the Polish Christian zookeepers Jan and
Antonina Zabinski who were s horrified by Nazi racism that they managed to save over
three hundred people. Drawing on Antonina’s diary and other historical sources, best-selling
naturalist Diane Ackerman vividly re-creates Antonina’s life as “the zookeeper’s wife,”
responsible for her own family, the zoo animals, and their “Guests”―Resistance activists
and refugee Jews, many of whom Jan had smuggled from the Warsaw Ghetto. Ironically,
the empty zoo cages helped to hide scores of doomed people, who were code-named after
the animals whose names they occupied. Others hid in the nooks and crannies of the
house itself. Jan led a cell of saboteurs, and the Zabinskis’ young son risked his
life carrying food to the Guests, while also tending an eccentric array of creatures
in the house. With hidden people having animal names, and pet animals having human
names, it’s small wonder the zoo’s codename became “The House Under a Crazy Star.”
With her exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman explores the role
of nature in both kindness and savagery, and she unravels the fascinating and disturbing
obsession at the core of Nazism: both a worship of nature and its violation, as humans
sought to control the genome of the entire planet. Includes 8 pages of illustrations.
Book Call no: DS134.64.A25 2008 DVD Call no: DVD PN1997.2.Z66 2017 |
 |
Fiction & Historical Fiction Books
The aftermath: a novel by Rhidian Brook, Assigned to oversee the reconstruction of Hamburg in the tumultuous
year following World War II, Colonel Lewis Morgan grieves the loss of his son while
living with his family in the home of a German widower, an arrangement that forces
both families to confront their passions and true selves. Call #: PR6052.R45 A64 2013 |
 |
All the light we cannot see: a novel from Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo
Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about
a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both
try to survive the devastation of World War II.
*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* *A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book* *A National
Book Award Finalist* *Soon to be a Netflix limited series from the producers of Stranger
Things*
Call #:PS3604.O34 A77 2017 |
 |
A Bridge Across the Ocean: a novel by Susan Meissner. February, 1946 . . . World War Two is over, but the recovery from
the most intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a German
ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the wronged daughter
of a French Resistance spy. Call #: PS3613.E435 B75 2017 |
 |
The Bronze Horseman: a novel (The Bronze Horseman 1 of 3) by Paullina Simons. Called “a Russian Thorn Birds,” The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons is a sweeping saga of love and war that has been a monumental
bestseller all over the world. The acclaimed author of Tully, Simons has written a
stirring tale of devotion, passion, secrets, betray, and sacrifice. “A love story
both tender and fierce” (Publishers Weekly )that “Recalls Dr. Zhivago” (People Magazine), The Bronze Horseman is rich and vivid historical fiction at its finest.
The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise
of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen
grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single
room in a cramped apartment with their brother and parents. Their world is turned
upside down when Hitler’s armies attack Russia and begin their unstoppable blitz to
Leningrad.
Yet there is light in the darkness. Tatiana meets Alexander, a brave young officer
in the Red Army. Strong and self-confident, yet guarding a mysterious and troubled
past, he is drawn to Tatiana—and she to him. Starvation, desperation, and fear soon
grip their city during the terrible winter of the merciless German siege. Tatiana
and Alexander’s impossible love threatens to tear the Metanova family apart and expose
the dangerous secret Alexander so carefully protects—a secret as devastating as the
war itself—as the lovers are swept up in the brutal tides that will change the world
and their lives forever. Call #: PS3569.I48763 B7 2001 |
 |
Tatiana and Alexander: a novel (The Bronze Horseman 2 of 3) by Paullina Simons. Paullina Simons’s internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman’s transcendent love affair with
a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two.
The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander—a novel of the enduring power of love and commitment against the devastating forces
of war and the equally dangerous forces of keeping the peace. A sweeping, intensely
compelling romantic historical saga, Tatiana and Alexander is a Russian Thorn Birds and a truly unforgettable reading experience.
Call #: PS3569.I48763 T37 2005 |
 |
The Summer Garden: a novel (The Bronze Horseman 3 of 3) by Paullina Simons. The Magnificent Conclusion to the Timeless Epic Saga Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the
twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a
beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible
upheavals. Though they are still young, the ordeals they endured have changed them—and
after living apart in a world laid waste, they must now find a way to live together
in postwar America.
With the Cold War rising, dark forces at work in their adopted country threaten their
lives, their family, and their hard-won peace. To regain the happiness they once knew,
to wash away the lingering pain of the past, two lovers grown distant must somehow
forge a new life . . .or watch the ghosts of their yesterdays destroy their firstborn
son. The Summer Garden . . . their odyssey is just beginning.
Call #: PS3569.I48763 S86 2011 |
 |
The Caine mutiny: a novel of World War II by Herman Wouk. Herman Wouk’s boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life–and
mutiny–on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater was immediately embraced, upon its
original publication in 1951, as one of the first serious works of American fiction
to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of World War II. Call #: PS3545.O98 C31 1951 |
 |
Camp nine: a novel by Vivienne Schiffer. Chess Morton uncovers secrets about her family’s past when she
meets two young Japanese-American internees at the newly constructed relocation camp
near her Arkansas home during World War II. Call #: PS3619.C366 C36 2011 |
 |
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Captain Yossarian, a paranoid bomber pilot stationed in the Italian
theater during World War II, faces a “catch-22” in this comic novel when he wants
to fly fewer combat missions. Call #: PS3558.E476 C3 1999 |
 |
Enemy at the gates: the battle for Stalingrad by William Craig. Provides an account of the World War II battle at Stalingrad, based
on interviews with military and civilian survivors, both German and Russian, and a
study of documents relating to the conflict. Call #: D764.3.S7 C7 2001 |
 |
Everything flows by Vasily Grossman; translated from the Russian by Robert and Elizabeth Chandler with
Anna Aslanyan. Ivan Grigoryevich is released into post-Stalinist Russia after thirty
years in Siberian forced labor camps under Stalin’s regime and learns, through interactions
with people in Moscow and Leningrad, about the horrible changes that have occurred
in Soviet society. Includes a chronology, notes on Collectivization and the terror
famine of 1932-1933, and a list of pertinent people and political organizations. Call #: PG3476.G7 V813 2009 |
 |
Foxfire 12: war stories, Cherokee traditions, summer camps, square dancing, crafts,
and more affairs of plain living edited by Kaye Carver Collins, Angie Cheek, and former Foxfire students. A collection
of thirty-three writings on life in southern Appalachia, including profiles of craftsmen,
World War I and II veterans, and other unique figures; Cherokee stories; memoirs of
summer camp and learning to square dance; and instructions for several craft projects.
Call #: REF F292.R3 F715 2004 |
 |
The Last Year of the War: a novel by Susan Meissner. In 1943, Elise Sontag is a typical American teenager from Iowa—aware
of the war but distanced from its reach. Then her father, a legal U.S. resident for
nearly two decades, is suddenly arrested on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer.
The family is sent to an internment camp in Texas, where, behind the armed guards
and barbed wire, Elise feels stripped of everything beloved and familiar, including
her own identity.
The only thing that makes the camp bearable is meeting fellow internee Mariko Inoue,
a Japanese American teen from Los Angeles, whose friendship empowers Elise to believe
the life she knew before the war will again be hers. Together in the desert wilderness,
Elise and Mariko hold tight the dream of being young American women with a future
beyond the fences.
But when the Sontag family is exchanged for American prisoners behind enemy lines
in Germany, Elise will face head-on the person the war desires to make of her. In
that devastating crucible she must discover if she has the will to rise above prejudice
and hatred and re-claim her own destiny, or disappear into the image others have cast
upon her.
The Last Year of the War tells a little-known story of World War II with great resonance for our own times
and challenges the very notion of who we are when who we’ve always been is called
into question. Call #: PS3613.E435 L37 2019 |
 |
Life and fate by Vasily Grossman. On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the
Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad.
Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossman’s characters must
work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family
– Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her dead son; Viktor, her scientist-husband
who falls victim to anti-semitism; and Yevgenia, forced to choose between her love
for the courageous tank-commander Novikov and her duty to her former husband. Life and Fate is one of the great Russian novels of the 20th century, and the richest and most
vivid account there is of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union. Call #: PG3476.G7 Z3513 2011 |
 |
The orphan’s tale by Pam Jenoff. Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant
by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail
station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep… When Noa discovers a boxcar containing
dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child
that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life,
she snatches one of the babies and flees into the snowy night. Call #: PS3610.E562 O77 2017 |
 |
Sarah’s key by Tatiana de Rosnay. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested
with her family by the French police in the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup, but not before she
locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family’s apartment, thinking that she
will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel’ d’Hiv’s 60th anniversary,
journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in France’s
past. Through her contemporary investigation, she stumbles onto a trail of long-hidden
family secrets that connect her to Sarah. Julia finds herself compelled to retrace
the girl’s ordeal, from that terrible term in the Vel d’Hiv’, to the camps, and beyond.
As she probes into Sarah’s past, she begins to question her own place in France, and
to reevaluate her marriage and her life. Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly
subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation and reveals the taboos and
silence that surround this painful episode.Call #: PR9105.9.R66 S27 2007 |
 |
Secrets of a charmed life by Susan Meissner. “She stood at a crossroads, half-aware that her choice would send
her down a path from which there could be no turning back. But instead of two choices,
she saw only one-because it was all she really wanted to see… Current day, Oxford,
England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect
life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up
secrets about the war that she has kept for decades…beginning with who she really
is. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden–one that will test
her convictions and her heart. 1940s, England. As Hitler wages an unprecedented war
against London’s civilian population, one million children are evacuated to foster
homes in the rural countryside. But even as fifteen-year-old Emmy Downtree and her
much younger sister Julia find refuge in a charming Cotswold cottage, Emmy’s burning
ambition to return to the city and apprentice with a fashion designer pits her against
Julia’s profound need for her sister’s presence. Acting at cross purposes just as
the Luftwaffe rains down its terrible destruction, the sisters are cruelly separated,
and their lives are transformed… “ Call #: PS3613.E435 S435 2015 |
