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Great Books on Worlds War II

Additional Reading on WWII drawn in part from Normandy Scholar Program courses, recommended by NSP faculty.

Histories:

David Kennedy, The American People in World War II

Ronald Spector, The Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan

David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 

Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945  

Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

Kevin McDermott, Stalin: Revolutionary in an Era of War

Richard Overy, Russia’s War: A History of the Soviet Effort, 1941-1945

Catherine Merridale, Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945

Geoffrey Roberts, Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle that Changed History.

Rodric Braithwaite, Moscow, 1941: A City and Its People at War

James E. Young, The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning

David F. Crew, Hitler and the Nazis. A History in Documents  

Lawrence E. Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory

Alan Riding, And the Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris

Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

Memoirs:

Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

Hélène Berr, Journal of Hélène Berr

Lucie Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo

Marguerite Duras, The War

Wladislaw Szpilman, The Pianist : The Extraordinary True Story of one Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

E. B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Dwight David Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe

Cornelius Ryan, The Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D-Day

Novels:

John Hersey,  Hiroshima 

Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead      

Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain

Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

David Benioff, City of Thieves

Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces

Posted September 1, 2011 More 1900s, Books, Europe, Periods, Regions, Topics, War

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