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Calvocoressi, Peter, Guy Wint, and John Pritchard. The Penguin History of the Second World War, 2nd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1999. (Part A 1-5)

Calvocoressi, Peter, Guy Wint, and John Pritchard. The Penguin History of the Second World War, 2nd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1999. (Part B: Epiloque to end)

World At War Video Series

Volume 1

1. A New Germany: 1933–1939 National Socialism Gains Power 00:00:00 Restoring Hope for a Future 00:09:30 Economic and Social Recovery 00:20:07 Peace Time Militarization 00:31:32 European Tensions Increase 00:38:25

2. Distant War: September 1939–May 1940 A State of War Declared 00:00:00 The Defense of Britain 00:09:27 English Morale Bolstered 00:20:55 Norway and Finland Invaded 00:26:15 Political Change in England 00:41:45

3. France Falls: May–June 1940 Tactics of an Older War 00:00:00 Actions and Consequences 00:09:12 The Invasion of France 00:22:01 A Defeated Homeland 00:30:48 Negotiations for Peace 00:40:37

4. Bonus: The Making of the Series Cast In a New Light 00:00:00 Genuine Material Only 00:05:56 Newsreels of a Nation 00:16:23 Eyewitness Interviews 00:29:32 Television Narrative 00:41:20

Volume 2

1. Alone: May 1940–May 1941 The Retreat at Dunkirk 00:00:00 For King and Country 00:09:41 Battle Over Britain 00:19:18 The Bombing of London 00:31:10 North African Operations 00:40:46

2. Barbarossa: June-December 1941 Camouflaged Intentions 00:00:00 Bitter Rivalries 00:09:53 The Russian Frontier 00:19:56 Moscow Under Siege 00:30:34 No More Victories 00:40:21

3. Banzai!: Japan 1931–1942 Agressive Actions 00:00:00 Ultra Nationalism In Japan 00:09:43 Politics of War 00:20:22 The Attack on Pearl Harbor 00:28:06 Conflicts in Southeast Asia 00:40:03

4. On Our Way: U.S.A. 1939–1942 An Isolated Nation 00:00:00 Arsenal of Democracy 00:09:58 The Enemy Within 00:19:38 Early Pacific Conflicts 00:31:27 The Turning Point in the Pacific 00:39:21

Volume 3

1. The Desert: North Africa 1940–1943 Dreams of an Italian Empire 00:00:00 The Desert Fox 00:09:23 Tug of War 00:20:42 Supply Line Importance 00:29:32 Montgomery's Command 00:39:05

2. Stalingrad: June 1942–February 1943 Into Southern Russia 00:00:00 Not One Step Back 00:09:39 Precarious Position 00:20:31 Germans in the Pocket 00:30:03 Never Surrender 00:40:14

3. Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic 1939–1944 Coastal Pirates 00:00:00 Inside Information 00:12:38 The Atlantic Lifeline 00:18:38 Iron Coffins 00:28:29 Final Days of the U-Boat 00:41:02

4. Red Star: The Soviet Union 1941–1943 Scorched Earth 00:00:00 The Siege of Leningrad 00:11:11 A Season of Bitter Endurance 00:21:18 An Inspired Confidence 00:29:33 Russian Counterattack 00:39:22

Volume 4

1. Whirlwind: Bombing Germany September 1939–April 1944 Strategic Bombing 00:00:00 Radar Improvements 00:09:02 Close Formation Flying 00:18:07 Escalated Efforts 00:30:25 Deep in Enemy Territory 00:39:13

2. Tough Old Gut: Italy November 1942–June 1944 Operation Torch 00:00:00 Invasion of Mainland Italy 00:10:30 Change of Attitudes 00:21:15 The Anzio Abscess 00:29:12 Destination: Rome 00:39:35

3. It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow: Burma 1942–1944 A Territorial Shield 00:00:00 Burmese Expedition 00:09:48 On Equal Ground 00:19:17 Prisoners of War 00:29:49 Pitched Battle 00:39:19

4. Home Fires: Britain 1940–1944 Civilian Services 00:00:00 An Island Fortress 00:09:10 Political Rivalries 00:19:43 A War Economy 00:28:25 Forward to the Front 00:40:36

Volume 5

1. Inside the Reich: Germany 1940–1944 A Triumphant Return Home 00:00:00 An Eastern Enemy 00:10:25 Total War Declared 00:20:23 Race and Empire 00:29:41 Political Resistance 00:39:06

2. Morning: June–August 1944 The Dawn of a New Day 00:00:00 Preparations for an Invasion 00:09:15 Naval Bombardment 00:19:56 Amphibious Assault 00:29:48 Liberation at a Grievous Price 00:39:53

3. Occupation: Holland 1940–1944 Holland Surrenders 00:00:00 A Subjugated People 00:10:16 Appeasing the Rulers 00:20:27 The Solution in Holland 00:31:04 Resistance to the Occupation 00:38:06

4. Pincers: August 1944–March 1945 The Champagne Campaign 00:00:00 The Failure at Arnhem 00:10:03 A Forgotten Poland 00:20:19 Desperation in the Ardennes 00:29:43 Push Towards the Rhine 00:39:20

Volume 6

1. Genocide: 1941–1945 The Elite Guard 00:00:00 Bottom of the Heap 00:09:28 The Final Solution 00:20:43 New Arrivals 00:29:36 Hell On Earth 00:39:20

2. Nemesis: Germany February–May 1945 Total War 00:00:00 The Fall of Berlin 00:10:12 Surrender 00:19:52 Inside the Bunker 00:27:57 German Losses Unknown 00:40:16

3. Japan: 1941–1945 Subdued Doubt 00:00:00 Patriotic Virtues 00:09:15 The War Comes Home 00:18:23 Fight For Survival 00:28:12 Mainland Bombing 00:39:48

4. Pacific: February 1942–July 1945 Island by Island 00:00:00 The Marianas 00:09:25 The Philippines 00:19:35 Iwo Jima 00:26:11 Okinawa 00:40:33

Volume 7

1. The Bomb (February – September 1945) Target: Hiroshima 00:00:00 Two Atomic Bombs 00:09:45 Moves Toward Peace 00:21:13 A Final Ultimatum 00:29:58 Truman's Decision 00:39:06

2. Reckoning (1945…And After) Counting the Costs 00:00:00 Rebuilding Germany 00:09:40 Nuremberg Trials 00:20:16 Allied Occupation 00:29:45 Post-war Impressions 00:39:21

3. Remember Remember the Dead 00:00:00 Fear and Fun 00:09:49 Scarred Survivors 00:19:18 Collective Guilt 00:29:46 Generation Gap 00:38:49

Volume 8

1. Hitler's Germany: The People's Community 1933-1939 Post-war Depression 00:00:00 Propaganda and Terror 00:10:15 The Jewish Boycott 00:18:31 Relief and Hope 00:29:28 Another Step Forward 00:39:29 Strength Through Joy 00:49:03 Unity and Equality 00:57:18

2. Hitler's Germany: Total War 1939-1945 An Uninformed Public 00:00:00 A Web of Fear 00:10:16 Victory Beyond Belief 00:18:29 Hitler Turns East 00:24:58 Civilian Targets 00:38:25 The Reich Under Seige 00:47:16 An Abandoned Nation 01:01:26

3. The Two Deaths of Adolf Hitler Closing Days of the Third Reich 00:00:00 The Last Hours of Hitler 00: The Remaining Evidence 00: Genuine Clues 00: A Crucial Conclusion 00:

Volume 9

1. Secretary to Hitler Grave References 00:00:00 The Point of Defeat 00:05:09 Inside the Bunker 00:13:32

2. Warrior Chain of Command 00:00:00 The Sounds and the Smells 00:10:25 Sacrifices of a Soldier 00:18:42 Loss of Humanity 00:29:46 The Cost of War 00:39:38

3. From War to Peace — An Interview with Prof. Stephen Ambrose East Meets West 00:00:00 A Divided Country 00:08:10 Global Outcome 00:14:13

Volume 10

1. The Final Solution – Part 1 A Sense of Duty 00:00:00 Defeated and Bitter 00:03:07 A New Government 00:15:58 Renew and Improve 00:29:36 Total Obedience 00:38:15 "Reasonable" Anti-Semitism 00:47:43 War Against Poland 00:54:23 Re-Germanization 01:02:02 The Ghettos 01:11:27 Sub-human Enemies 01:18:41 Murder Squads 01:25:50

2. The Final Solution – Part 2 A Demonstration 00:00:00 The Jewish Problem 00:10:27 Surviving the Journey 00:19:45 The Railway Men 00:26:09 The Next Step 00:35:40 Reduced to a Number 00:44:45 Where is the Whole World? 00:54:18 The Resettlement Story 01:06:02 Jewish Resistance 01:08:54 A Moment of Life 01:17:32 Liberation 01:20:31

Volume 11

1. Making the Series: A 30th Anniversary Perspective A First for the Medium 00:00:00 High Expectations 00:11:38 Faces of the Battlefield 00:19:30 The Music of the Series 00:32:24 Narrative Contributions 00:44:01 A World Abound With Film 00:49:04 Personal Experiences 01:05:29 The Big Interview 01:16:20 The Final Solution 01:31:06 Moral Choices 01:39:18 The Changing Nature of War 01:53:07

2. Experience of War The Battle for the Atlantic 00:00:00 A Gentleman's War 00:11:56 British POWs 00:15:53 D-Day Landing 00:26:11 Bomber Escort Tactics 00:31:21 A Draftee in Okinawa 00:41:20 The Stress of War 00:49:52 Respected Men 00:55:14

Unit 1 Required Reading

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Hughes, Jeffrey L. “The Origins of World War II in Europe: British Deterrence Failure and German Expansionism,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars. (Spring, 1988), pp. 851-891.

Unit 2 Required Reading

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Nish, Ian. “An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895-1945,” The China Quarterly, No. 124, China and Japan: History, Trends and Prospects. (Dec., 1990), pp. 601-623.

Unit 3 Required Reading

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Cairns, John C. “Great Britain and the Fall of France: A Study in Allied Disunity,” Journal of Modern History, Vol. 27, No. 4. (Dec., 1955), pp. 365-409

Unit 4 Required Reading

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Jacobsen, Philip H. "A Cryptologic Veteran’s Analysis of Day of Deceit."

Johnson, Greg. “Pearl Harbor and the Historians” Unpublished review essay, 1984

Lowenthal, Mark M. “Roosevelt and the Coming of the War: The Search for United States Policy 1937-42”, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 16, No. 3, The Second World War: Part 2. (Jul., 1981), pp. 413-440

Sagan, Scott D. “The Origins of the Pacific War,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars. (Spring, 1988), pp. 893-922

Attack on Pearl Harbor Wikipedia

Pearl Harbor Advance-Knowledge Debate Wikipedia

Zimmerman, John C. “Pearl Harbor Revisionism: Robert Stinnett’s Day of Deceit,” Intelligence and National Security, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 127-146.

Unit 5 Required Reading

Larew, Karl G. “The Royal Navy in the Battle of Britain”  Historian, 1992, Vol. 54, Issue No. 2, pp. 243-252.

Campbell, J.P. “Facing the German Airborne Threat to the United Kingdom, 1939-1942" War in History, Dec 1997, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p. 411-424

Unit 6 Required Reading

Kimball, Warren F. “Stalingrad: A Chance for Choices” Journal of Military History, Vol. 60, No. 1. (Jan., 1996), pp. 89-114.

Unit 7 Required Reading

Gerlach, Christian. “The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews” Journal of Modern History, Vol. 70, No. 4. (Dec., 1998), pp. 759-812.

Unit 8 Required Reading

Ben-Moshe, Tuvia. “Winston Churchill and the ‘Second Front’: A Reappraisal Journal of Modern History, Vol 62, No. 3 (Sep., 1990), pp. 503-537.

Sadkovich, James J. “Understanding Defeat: Reappraising Italy's Role in World War II” Journal of  Contemporary History, Vol. 24, No. 1. (Jan., 1989), pp. 27-61.

Villa, Brian Loring. “Mountbatten, the British Chiefs of Staff, and Approval of the Dieppe Raid,” Journal of Military History, Vol 54, No. 2 (April 1990), pp. 201-226

Unit 9 Required Reading

Buckley, John. “Air Power and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45,”  Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 28, No. 1. (Jan., 1993), pp. 143-161

Milner, Marc. “Convoy Escorts: Tactics, Technology and Innovation in the Royal Canadian Navy, 1939-1943” Military Affairs, Vol 48, No. 1 (January 1984), pp. 19-25

Schofield, Vice-Admiral B.B. “The Defeat of the U-Boats during World War II,”  Journal of Contemporary History, Vol 16, No. 1, The Second World War: Part 1 (Jan., 1981), pp. 119-129.

Unit 10 Required Reading

Werrell, Kenneth P. “The Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II: Costs and Accomplishments" Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 3. (Dec., 1986), pp. 702-713.

Unit 11 Required Reading

Rice, Richard. “Economic Mobilization in Wartime Japan: Business, Bureaucracy, and Military in Conflict,” The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4. (Aug., 1979), pp. 689-706.

Unit 12 Required Reading

Leighton, Richard M. “Overlord Revisited: An Interpretation of American Strategy in the European War, 1942-1944,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 4. (Jul., 1963), pp. 919-937

Powers, Stephen T. “The Battle of Normandy: The Lingering Controversy,” Journal of Military History, Vol. 56, No. 3. (Jul., 1992), pp. 455-471.

Unit 13 Required Readings

Sherwin, Martin J. “The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Atomic-Energy Policy and Diplomacy, 1941-45”,  The American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 4. (Oct., 1973), pp. 945-968

Unit 14 Required Reading

Halperin, Sandra. “Chapter 8, The Post-World War II Order” in War and Social Change in Modern Europe: The Great Transformation Revisited New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 235-268.

Hoffman, Stanley. “The Effects of World War II on French Society and Politics French Historical Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1961), pp. 28-63

Unit 1: Sources of War in the West

Supplementary Readings

Fritz, Stephen G. Reflections on Antecedents of the Holocaust. The History Teacher, Vol. 23, No. 2. (Feb., 1990), pp. 161-179.

Overy, Richard. Strategic Intelligence and the Outbreak of the Second World War. War in History; Nov98, Vol. 5 Issue 4, p451, 30p

Hagen, William W. Before the "Final Solution": Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Anti-Semitism in Interwar Germany and Poland. The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 68, No. 2. (Jun., 1996), pp. 351-381.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. Hitler's Image of the United States. The American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 4. (Jul., 1964), pp. 1006-1021.

Hughes, Jeffrey L. The Origins of World War II in Europe: British Deterrence Failure and German Expansionism. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars. (Spring, 1988), pp. 851-891.

Allen, William S. The Nazi Seizure of Power. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1965.

Bracher, Karl Dietrich. The German Dictatorship. New York: Praeger, 1970.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.

Childers, Thomas. The Nazi Voter. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Craig, Gordon. The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

Dahrendorf, Ralf. Society and Democracy in Germany. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.

Fest, Joachim F. C. Hitler. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974.

Grunberger, Richard. A Social History of the Third Reich. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1974.

Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1938.

Holborn, Hajo (ed.). Republic to Reich: The Making of the Nazi Revolution. New York: Vintage, 1972.

Neumann, Franz. Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1944.

Nicholls, A. J. Weimar and the Rise of Hitler. London: Macmillan, 1968.

Peterson, Edward N. The Limits of Hitler’s Power. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969.

Schoenbaum, David. Hitler’s Social Revolution: Class and Status in Nazi Germany, 1933–1939. New York: Norton, 1980.

Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. London: Secker and Warburg, 1960.

Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Stern, Joseph P. Hitler: The Fuhrer and the People. Glasgow: Fontana, 1975.

Turner, Henry A. (ed). Nazism and the Third Reich. New York: Quadrangle, 1972.

Bell, P. M. H. The Origins of the Second World War in Europe. London: Longman, 1986.

Brennan, Gerald. The Spanish Labyrinth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962.

Brooke–Shepherd, Gordon. Anschluss: The Rape of Austria. London: Macmillan, 1963.

Haslam, Jonathan. The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe, 1933–39. New York: St. Martin’s, 1984.

Jackson, Gabriel. The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931–1939. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967.

Murray, Williamson. The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938–1939: The Path to Ruin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Newman, Simon K. March 1939: The British Guarantee to Poland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.

Puzzo, Dante A. Spain and the Great Powers, 1936–1941. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.

Shay, Robert P. British Rearmament in the Thirties: Politics and Profits. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Taylor, A. J. P. The Origins of the Second World War. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.

Thomas, Hugh. The Spanish Civil War. New York: Harper, 1961.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. The Foreign Policy of Hitler’s Germany, 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970–80.

Wheeler–Bennett, John W. Munich: Prologue to Tragedy. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1948.

Unit 2: Sources of War in the East

Supplementary Readings

Nish, Ian. An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895-1945. The China Quarterly, No. 124, China and Japan: History, Trends and Prospects. (Dec., 1990), pp. 601-623.

Sagan, Scott D. The Origins of the Pacific War. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars. (Spring, 1988), pp. 893-922.

Brailey, N. J. Southeast Asia and Japan's Road to War. The Historical Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4. (Dec., 1987), pp. 995-1011.

Moser, Don. China, Burma, India. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, c1978.

Fujitani, Takashi.; White, Geoffrey M.; Yoneyama, Lisa. Perilous Memories: The Asia-Pacific War(s). Durham, N.C Duke University Press, 2001.

Lee, Chong-Sik. Revolutionary Struggle in Manchuria: Chinese Communism and Soviet Interest, 1922-1945. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1983.

White, Theodore Harold. Thunder out of China. New York: Da Capo Press, 1980, c1946.

Boyle, John Hunter. China and Japan at War, 1937-1945: The Politics of Collaboration. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh). Journey to a War. New York: Octagon Books, c1967, reprinted 1972.

Callahan, Raymond. Burma, 1942-1945. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1979, c1978.

Unit 3: Expansion of the European War, 1939-40

Supplementary Readings

Overy, Richard. Strategic Intelligence and the Outbreak of the Second World War. War in History; Nov98, Vol. 5 Issue 4, p451, 30p

Sadkovich, James J. The Italo-Greek War in Context: Italian Priorities and Axis Diplomacy. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 28, No. 3. (Jul., 1993), pp. 439-464.

Cairns, John C. Great Britain and the Fall of France: A Study in Allied Disunity. The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 27, No. 4. (Dec., 1955), pp. 365-409.

Gunsburg, Jeffrey A. The Battle of the Belgian Plain, 12-14 May 1940: The First Great Tank Battle. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 56, No. 2. (Apr., 1992), pp. 207-244.

Hughes, Jeffrey L. The Origins of World War II in Europe: British Deterrence Failure and German Expansionism. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars. (Spring, 1988), pp. 851-891.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. Harmondsworth, UK.: Penguin, 1975. pp. 547-593.

Beaufre, A. 1940: The Fall of France. New York: Knopf, 1967.

Bloch, Marc. Strange Defeat. New York: Norton, 1968.

Bond, Brian. France and Belgium, 1939–1940. London: Davis–Poynter, 1975.

De Gaulle, Charles. The Complete War Memoirs of Charles de Gaulle. New York: Da Capo, 1984.

Kedward, Roderick, and Roger Austin (eds.). Vichy France and the Resistance. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1985.

Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France. New York: Knopf, 1972.

Shirer, William. The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

Spears, Edward. Assignment to Catastrophe, 2 vols. London: Heinemann, 1954–58.

Unit 4: Expansion of the War in Asia, 1937-41

Supplementary Readings

Nish, Ian. An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895-1945. The China Quarterly, No. 124, China and Japan: History, Trends and Prospects. (Dec., 1990), pp. 601-623.

S. Olu Agbi. The Pacific War Controversy in Britain: Sir Robert Craigie versus The Foreign Office. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3. (1983), pp. 489-517.

Doenecke, Justus D. Beyond Polemics: An Historiographical Re-Appraisal of American Entry into World War II. The History Teacher, Vol. 12, No. 2. (Feb., 1979), pp. 217-251.

Cole, Wayne S. American Entry into World War II: A Historiographical Appraisal. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 43, No. 4. (Mar., 1957), pp. 595-617.

Harvey, A. D. Army Air Force and Navy Air Force: Japanese Aviation and the Opening Phase of the War in the Far East. War in History, 1999, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, p. 174-204.

Harrison, Mark. Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Germany, 1938-1945. The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 2. (May, 1988), pp. 171-192.

McKechney, John. The Pearl Harbor Controversy. A Debate Among Historians. Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 18, No. 1/4. (1963), pp. 45-88.

John F. Bratzel; Leslie B. Rout, Jr. Pearl Harbor, Microdots, and J. Edgar Hoover. The American Historical Review, Vol. 87, No. 5. (Dec., 1982), pp. 1342-1351.

Higgs, Robert. Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, No. 1. (Mar., 1992), pp. 41-60.

Lowenthal, Mark M. Roosevelt and the Coming of the War: The Search for United States Policy 1937-42. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 16, No. 3, The Second World War: Part 2.

Ambrose, Stephen. Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy Since 1938. New York: Penguin, 1983.

Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976.

Burns, James. M. Roosevelt, The Soldier of Freedom, 1940–45. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970.

Dallek, Robert A. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign American Policy, 1932–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Polenberg, Richard. War and Society: The United States, 1941–1945. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972.

Sherwood, Robert. Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History. Rev. ed., New York: Harper, 1948.

Terkel, Studs. ‘‘The Good War’’: An Oral History of World War II. New York: New Press, 1984.

Kolko, Gabriel. The Politics of War; the World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943-1945. New York : Random House, [c1968]

Unit 5: Britain at War

Supplementary Readings

Strebeigh, Fred. How England Hung the "Curtain" that Held Hitler at Bay. Smithsonian, 1990, Vol. 21, Iss. 4, p. 120-129

Larew, Karl G. The Royal Navy in the Battle of Britain. Historian, 1992, Vol. 54, Iss. 2, p. 243-252

Campbell, J.P. Facing the German Airborne Threat to the United Kingdom, 1939-1942. War in History; Dec97, Vol. 4 Issue 4, p411, 23p.

Adelman, Paul. The British General Election, 1945. History Review; Sep2001 Issue 40, p30, 5p, 3bw

Adelman, Paul. The British general election 1945: Paul Adelman explains a major turning point in modern British history. (Talking points). History Review, Sept 2001 p30(5).

Steven Fielding; Peter Thompson; Nick Tiratsoo. New Labour and 1945? (Britain's Labor Party since its majority election to power in 1945). History Today, July 1995 v45 n7 p11(4).

Pearce, Robert. Attlee (assessment of former UK Prime Minister Clement Attlee of the Labor Party). History Review, Sept 1997 n28 p3(5).

Jefferys, Kevin. Winston Churchill and the Wartime Coalition 1940-45. History Review, Dec 1998 p44(1).

Kitchen, Martin. Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The Historical Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2. (Jun., 1987), pp. 415-436.

Harrison, Mark. Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Germany, 1938-1945. The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 2. (May, 1988), pp. 171-192.

Bishop, Edward. Their Finest Hour: the story of the Battle of Britain, 1940. New York : Ballantine Books, c1968.

Deighton, Len. Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain. London: Cape, 1977.

Addison, Paul. The Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second World War. London: Cape, 1975.

Bruce, Maurice. The Coming of the Welfare State. London: Batsford, 1968.

Bullock, Alan. The Life and Times of Ernest Bevin, 2 vols. London: Heinemann, 1960–67.

Gilbert, Martin. Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–45. London: Heinemann, 1985.

Marwick, Arthur. War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan, 1974.

Milward, Alan S. War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1987.

Taylor, A. J. P. English History, 1914–1945. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965.

Turner, Ernest S. The Phoney War on the Home Front. London: Joseph, 1961.

Unit 6: Russia at War

Supplementary Readings

Glantz, David M. The Red Army at War, 1941-1945: Sources and Interpretations. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 62, No. 3. (Jul., 1998), pp. 595-617.

Erickson, John. Barbarossa June 1941: Who Attacked Whom?. History Today, 51 no7 11-17 Jl 2001

Koch, H. W. Operation Barbarossa-The Current State of the Debate. The Historical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2. (Jun., 1988), pp. 377-390.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. Unexplored Questions about the German Military during World War II. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 62, No. 2. (Apr., 1998), pp. 371-380.

Kimball, Warren F. Stalingrad: A Chance for Choices. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 60, No. 1. (Jan., 1996), pp. 89-114.

Hayward, Joel. Too Little, Too Late: An Analysis of Hitler's Failure in August 1942 to Damage Soviet Oil Production. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 64, No. 3. (Jul., 2000), pp. 769-794.

Balsamo, Larry T. Germany's Armed Forces in the Second World War: Manpower, Armaments, and Supply. The History Teacher, Vol. 24, No. 3. (May, 1991), pp. 263-277.

Erickson, John. The Soviet Union at War (1941-1945): An Essay on Sources and Studies. Soviet Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3. (Jan., 1963), pp. 249-274.

Erickson, John. Review Essay: New Thinking about the Eastern Front in World War II. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 56, No. 2. (Apr., 1992), pp. 283-292.

Wheatcroft, Stephen. The Scale and Nature of German and Soviet Repression and Mass Killings, 1930-45. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 48, No. 8. (Dec., 1996), pp. 1319-1353.

Nikolaieff, A. M. The Red Army in the Second World War. Russian Review, Vol. 7, No. 1. (Autumn, 1947), pp. 49-60.

Glantz, David M. Soviet Military Strategy during the Second Period of War (November 1942-December 1943): A Reappraisal. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 60, No. 1. (Jan., 1996), pp. 115-150.

Martin Kitchen. Winston Churchill and the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The Historical Journal, Vol. 30, No. 2. (Jun., 1987), pp. 415-436.

Erickson, John. Liberation, Soviet Style, 1944-45. History Today v. 34 (July 1984) p. 36-41.

Erickson, John. May 1945: The Soviet View. History Today; May85, Vol. 35 Issue 5, p10, 5p.

Lewis, Adrian R. The Failure of Allied Planning and Doctrine for Operation Overlord: The Case of Minefield and Obstacle Clearance. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 62, No. 4. (Oct., 1998), pp. 787-807.

Harrison, Mark. Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Germany, 1938-1945. The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 2. (May, 1988), pp. 171-192.

Harrison, Mark. The Volume of Soviet Munitions Output, 1937-1945: A Reevaluation. The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 50, No. 3. (Sep., 1990), pp. 569-589.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. Harmondsworth, UK.: Penguin, 1975. pp. 593-661 & 685-691.

Deutscher, Isaac. Stalin: A Political Biography. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1966.

Werth, Alexander. Russia at War, 1941–1945. New York: Avon, 1970.

Djilas, Milovan. Conversations with Stalin. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962.

Erickson, John. The Soviet High Command: A Military–Political History, 1918–1941. London: Macmillan, 1962.

Fischer, Louis. The Road to Yalta: Soviet Foreign Relations, 1941–1945. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Heller, Mikhail and Aleksandr Nekrich. Utopia in Power: The History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Present. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Holloway, David. The Soviet Union and the Arms Race. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984.

McCagg, William O. Stalin Embattled, 1943–1948. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1978.

Medvedev, Roy. Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism. New York: Random House, 1973.

Nettl, J.P. The Eastern Zone and Soviet Policy in Germany, 1945–1950. London: Oxford University Press, 1951.

Nove, Alec. Stalinism and After. London: Allen and Unwin, 1985.

Schapiro, Leonard. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union. New York: Random House, 1970.

Unit 7: Germany at War: the Fate of Occupied Europe

Supplementary Readings

Balsamo, Larry T. Germany's Armed Forces in the Second World War: Manpower, Armaments, and Supply. The History Teacher, Vol. 24, No. 3. (May, 1991), pp. 263-277.

Koch, H. W. Operation Barbarossa-The Current State of the Debate. The Historical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 2. (Jun., 1988), pp. 377-390.

Erickson, John. Barbarossa June 1941: Who Attacked Whom? History Today 51 no7 11-17 Jl 2001

Weinberg, Gerhard L. Unexplored Questions about the German Military during World War II. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 62, No. 2. (Apr., 1998), pp. 371-380.

Erickson, John. Liberation, Soviet style, 1944-45. History Today v. 34 (July 1984) p. 36-41.

Anderson, Truman O. Germans, Ukrainians, and Jews: Ethnic Policies in Heeresgebiet Sud, June - December 1941. War in History, 2000, Vol. 7, Iss. 3, p. 325-351.

Marrus, Michael R. Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 30, No. 1. (Jan., 1995), pp. 83-110.

Hagen, William W. Before the "Final Solution": Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Anti-Semitism in Interwar Germany and Poland. The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 68, No. 2. (Jun., 1996), pp. 351-381.

Borrowman, Shane. Critical Surfing: Holocaust Denial and Credibility on the Web. College Teaching; Spring99, Vol. 47 Issue 2, p44, 4p

Gerlach, Christian. The Wannsee Conference, the Fate of German Jews, and Hitler's Decision in Principle to Exterminate All European Jews. The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 70, No. 4. (Dec., 1998), pp. 759-812.

Breitman, Richard. The Allied War Effort and the Jews, 1942-1943. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 20, No. 1. (Jan., 1985), pp. 135-156.

Breitman, Richard; Aronson, Shlomo. The End of the 'Final Solution'? Nazi Plans to Ransom Jews in 1944. Central European History; Jun92, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p177, 27p.

Michael R. Marrus; Robert O. Paxton. The Nazis and the Jews in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1944. The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 54, No. 4. (Dec., 1982), pp. 687-714.

Harrison, Mark. Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R., and Germany, 1938-1945. The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 41, No. 2. (May, 1988), pp. 171-192.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. Hitler's Image of the United States.The American Historical Review, Vol. 69, No. 4. (Jul., 1964), pp. 1006-1021.

Wheatcroft, Stephen. The Scale and Nature of German and Soviet Repression and Mass Killings, 1930-45. Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 48, No. 8. (Dec., 1996), pp. 1319-1353.

Geller, Jay Howard. The Role of Military Administration in German-Occupied Belgium, 1940-1944. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 63, No. 1. (Jan., 1999), pp. 99-125.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. Harmondsworth, UK.: Penguin, 1975. pp. 705-752.

Cecil, Robert. Hitler’s Decision to Invade Russia. London: Davis–Poynter, 1975.

Gorlitz, Walter. History of the German General Staff. New York: Praeger, 1953.

Jacobssen, Hans A. (ed). Decisive Battles of World War II: The German View. London: Deutsch, 1965.

Manstein, Erich Von. Lost Victories. Chicago: Henry Regner, 1958.

Schramm, Percy E. Hitler: The Man and the Military Leader. New York: New Viewpoints, 1978.

Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Studnitz, Hans–Georg von. While Berlin Burns. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1964.

Trevor–Roper, Hugh R. The Last Days of Hitler. London: Macmillan, 1946.

Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Penguin, 1994.

Bauer, Yehuda, and Nathan Rotenstreich. The Holocaust as Historical Experience: Essays and a Discussion. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981.

Buchheim, Hans, Martin Broszat, H. A. Jacobsen, and Helmut Krausnick. Anatomy of the S.S. State. New York: Walker, 1968.

Butz, Arthur R. The Hoax of the Twentieth Century. Torrance, CA: Institute for Historical Review, 1976.

Dawidowicz, Lucy. The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.

Fleming, Gerald. Hitler and the Final Solution. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.

Friedlander, Henry, and Sybil Milton (eds.). The Holocaust: Ideology, Bureaucracy and Genocide. Millwood, NY: Kraus International, 1980.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985.

Lukas, Richard C. The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation, 1939–1944. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1986.

Reitlinger, Gerald. The Final Solution. London: Vallentine, Mitchell, 1953.

Unit 8: In the Balance: the Western Theatre, 1941-43

Supplementary Readings

Jo Woolley and David Smurthwaite. Desert Warfare. History Today 52 no10 28-9 O 2002.

Harvey, Stephen. The Italian War Effort and the Strategic Bombing of Italy. History; Feb85, Vol. 70 Issue 228, p32, 14p

Sadkovich, James J. Understanding Defeat: Reappraising Italy's Role in World War II. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 24, No. 1. (Jan., 1989), pp. 27-61.

Sadkovich, James J. The Italo-Greek War in Context: Italian Priorities and Axis Diplomacy. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 28, No. 3. (Jul., 1993), pp. 439-464.

Adleman, Robert H. & George Walton. Rome Fell Today. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968.

Douglas, Keith C. Alamein to Zem Zem. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Jackson, W. F. G. The North African Campaign, 1940–43. London: Batsford, 1975.

Lewin, Ronald. The Life and Death of the Afrika Korps, A Biography. London: Batsford, 1977.

Lewin, Ronald. Rommel as Military Commander. New York: Ballantine, 1970.

Lucas, James. Panzer Army Africa. London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1977.

Strawson, John M. El Alamein: Desert Victory. London: Dent, 1981.

Blumenson, Martin. Bloody River: The Real Tragedy of the Rapido. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

Blumenson, Martin. Salerno to Cassino. Washington: Office of the Chief of Military History, 1969.

Elwood, David W. Italy, 1943–45. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985.

Fisher, Ernest F. Cassino to the Alps. Washington: Center for Military History, 1984.

Graham, Dominick. Tug of War: The Battle for Italy, 1943–1945. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.

Hapgood, David, and David Richardson. Monte Cassino. New York: Congdon and Weed, 1984.

Higgins, Trumbull. Soft Underbelly: The Anglo–American Controversy over the Italian Campaign. New York: Macmillan, 1968.

Jackson, W. G. F. The Battle for Rome. New York: Bonanza, 1969.

Lamb, Richard. Montgomery in Europe, 1943–1945: Success or Failure? New York: Franklin Watts, 1984.

Linklater, Eric. The Campaign in Italy. London: HMSO, 1951.

Trevelyan, Raleigh. Rome ’44: The Battle for the Eternal City. London: Secker and Warburg, 1981.

Unit 9: War at Sea and War in the Air

Supplementary Readings

Oxford, Edward. Battle for the Atlantic. American History Illustrated; Nov/Dec93, Vol. 28 Issue 5, p32, 16p, 4c, 8bw

Buckley, John. Air Power and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-45. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 28, No. 1. (Jan., 1993), pp. 143-161.

Schoenfeld, Max. Winston Churchill as War Manager: The Battle of the Atlantic Committee, 1941. Military Affairs, Vol. 52, No. 3. (Jul., 1988), pp. 122-127.

Werrell, Kenneth P. The Strategic Bombing of Germany in World War II: Costs and Accomplishments. The Journal of American History, Vol. 73, No. 3. (Dec., 1986), pp. 702-713.

Beaumont, Roger. The Bomber Offensive as a Second Front. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 22, No. 1. (Jan., 1987), pp. 3-19.

Bekker, Cajus. Hitler’s Naval War. London: Doubleday, 1974.

Buchheim, L. G. U–Boat Warfare. New York: 1978.

Busch, Harald. U–Boats at War. New York: Ballantine, 1982.

Cresswell, John. Sea Warfare, 1939–45. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

Doenitz, Karl. Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959.

Macintyre, Donald. The Battle of the Atlantic. London: Seven House, 1961.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. Volume 1:The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939–May 1943. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947.

Pitt, Barrie. The Battle of the Atlantic. Alexandria, VA: Time–Life, 1980.

Porton, Edward P. Von der. The German Navy in World War II. New York: Crowell, 1969.

Unit 10: Japan at War: the Pacific Theatre, 1942-43

Supplementary Readings

Nish, Ian. An Overview of Relations between China and Japan, 1895-1945. The China Quarterly, No. 124, China and Japan: History, Trends and Prospects. (Dec., 1990), pp. 601-623.

Hans van de Ven. Stilwell in the Stocks: The Chinese Nationalists and the Allied Powers. Asian Affairs (London) 34 no3 243-59 N 2003

Greenberg, Michael. India's Independence and the War. Pacific Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 2. (Jun., 1942), pp. 164-187.

Heehs, Peter. India's Divided Loyalties? History Today, 1995, Vol. 45, Iss. 7, p. 16-23

Brailey, N. J. Southeast Asia and Japan's Road to War. The Historical Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4. (Dec., 1987), pp. 995-1011.

Harvey, A.D. Army Air Force and Navy Air Force: Japanese Aviation and the Opening Phase of War in the Far East. War in History, 1999, Vol. 6, Iss. 2, p. 174-204.

Rice, Richard. Economic Mobilization in Wartime Japan: Business, Bureaucracy, and Military in Conflict. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 38, No. 4. (Aug., 1979), pp. 689-706.

Bui Minh Dung. Japan's Role in the Vietnamese Starvation of 1944-45. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 29, No. 3. (Jul., 1995), pp. 573-618.

James V. Martin, Jr. Thai-American Relations in World War II. The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 22, No. 4. (Aug., 1963), pp. 451-467.

Bisson, Thomas A. Japan’s War Economy. New York: Macmillan, 1945.

Boyle, John H. China and Japan at War, 1937–1945: The Politics of Collaboration. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1972.

Guillain, Robert. I Saw Tokyo Burning. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981.

Hane, Mikiso. Modern Japan: A Historical Survey. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1992.

Havens, Thomas R. H. The Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two. New York: Norton, 1978.

Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War, 1931-1945 : a critical perspective on Japan's role in World War II. New York: Random House, 1978.

James, D. Clayton. The Years of MacArthur, 2 vols. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1972–75.

Lensen, George A. The Strange Neutrality: Soviet–Japanese Relations During the Second World War. Bloomington, IN: Diplomatic Press, 1972.

Manchester, William. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880–1964. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.

Minichiello, Sharon. Retreat from Reform: Patterns of Political Behavior in Interwar Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984.

Shillony, Ben–Ami. Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.

Storry, Richard. A History of Modern Japan. London: Penguin, 1960.

Toland, John. Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, 1970.

Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945. Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, c1978.

Unit 11: The Defeat of Germany

Supplementary Readings

Powers, Stephen T. The Battle of Normandy: The Lingering Controversy. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 56, No. 3. (Jul., 1992), pp. 455-471.

Balsamo, Larry T. Germany's Armed Forces in the Second World War: Manpower, Armaments, and Supply. The History Teacher, Vol. 24, No. 3. (May, 1991), pp. 263-277.

Erickson, John. Liberation, Soviet style, 1944-45. History Today v. 34 (July 1984) p. 36-41.

Erickson, John. May 1945 The Soviet View. History Today; May85, Vol. 35 Issue 5, p10, 5p.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. Unexplored Questions about the German Military during World War II. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 62, No. 2. (Apr., 1998), pp. 371-380.

Adelman, Paul. The British General Election, 1945. History Review; Sep2001 Issue 40, p30, 5p, 3bw.

Steven Fielding, Peter Thompson, Nick Tiratsoo. New Labour and 1945? (Britain's Labor Party since its majority election to power in 1945). History Today July 1995 v45 n7 p11(4) Mag.Coll.: 80B0186.

Adelman, Paul. The British general election 1945: Paul Adelman explains a major turning point in modern British history. (Talking points). History Review Sept 2001 p30(5).

Pearce, Robert. Attlee. (assessment of former UK Prime Minister Clement Attlee of the Labor Party). History Review Sept 1997 n28 p3(5).

Jefferys, Kevin. Winston Churchill and the Wartime Coalition 1940-45. History Review Dec 1998 p44(1).

Paterson, Thomas G. The Abortive American Loan to Russia and the Origins of the Cold War, 1943-1946. The Journal of American History, Vol. 56, No. 1. (Jun., 1969), pp. 70-92.

Mark, Eduard. American Policy Toward Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1946: An Alternative Interpretation. The Journal of American History, Vol. 68, No. 2. (Sep., 1981), pp. 313-336.

Sherwin, Martin J. The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Atomic-Energy Policy and Diplomacy, 1941-45. The American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 4. (Oct., 1973), pp. 945-968.

Leighton, Richard M. Overlord Revisited: An Interpretation of American Strategy in the European War, 1942-1944. The American Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 4. (Jul., 1963), pp. 919-937.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. Harmondsworth, UK.: Penguin, 1975. pp. 753-801.

Belchem, David. Victory in Normandy. London: Chatto and Windus, 1981.

Belfield, E. M. G., and Hubert Essame. The Battle for Normandy. London: Batsford, 1965.

Blumenson, Martin. The Duel for France, 1944. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1963.

Ehrman, John P. W. Grand Strategy, Vol. 5. London: HMSO, 1956.

Keegan, John. Six Armies in Normandy. New York: Viking, 1982.

Ryan, Cornelius. The Longest Day. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959.

Seaton, Albert. The Fall of Fortress Europe, 1943–45. London: Batsford, 1981.

Unit 12: The Defeat of Japan

Supplementary Readings

Sagan, Scott D. The Origins of the Pacific War. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 18, No. 4, The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars. (Spring, 1988), pp. 893-922.

Bonnett, J. Jekyll and Hyde: Henry L. Stimson, Mentalite, and the Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb on Japan. War in History; Apr97, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p174, 39p

Libby, Justin H. The search for a negotiated peace. World Affairs; Summer93, Vol. 156 Issue 1, p35, 11p.

Cranston, Alan. The non-event: dropping the A-bomb. The New Republic, August 21, 1995 v213 n8-9 p11(1)

Paterson, Thomas G. The Abortive American Loan to Russia and the Origins of the Cold War, 1943-1946. The Journal of American History, Vol. 56, No. 1. (Jun., 1969), pp. 70-92.

Mark, Eduard. American Policy Toward Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1946: An Alternative Interpretation. The Journal of American History, Vol. 68, No. 2. (Sep., 1981), pp. 313-336.

Perras, Galen Roger. We Have Opened the Door to Tokyo: United States Plans to Seize the Kurile Islands, 1943-1945. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 61, No. 1. (Jan., 1997), pp. 65-91.

Sherwin, Martin J. The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Atomic-Energy Policy and Diplomacy, 1941-45. The American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 4. (Oct., 1973), pp. 945-968.

Collier, Basil. The War in the Far East, 1941–45. New York: Morrow, 1969.

Costello, John. The Pacific War, 1941–1945. New York: Rawson Wade, 1981.

Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon, 1986.

Dull, Paul S. A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941–1945. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1958.

Hayes, Grace P. The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War Against Japan. Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute, 1982.

Ienaga, Saburo. The Pacific War, 1931-1945 :a critical perspective on Japan's role in World War II. New York : Pantheon Books, c1978.

Iriye, Akira. Power and Culture: The Japanese–American War, 1941–1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.

Spector, Ronald H. Eagle Against the Sun. New York: The Free Press, 1985.

Thorne, Christopher. Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War Against Japan, 1941–1945. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978.

Toland, John. Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, 1970.

Clyde, P. H., and B. F. Beers. The Far East: A History of the Western Impact and the Eastern Response. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice–Hall, 1966.

Mintz, Frank P. Revisionism and the Origins of Pearl Harbor. Washington: University Press of America, 1985.

Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. New York: McGraw–Hill, 1981.

Prange, Gordon W. Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History. New York: McGraw–Hill, 1986.

Baker, Paul R. (ed.). The Atomic Bomb: The Great Decision. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976.

Bernstein, Barton J. (ed). The Atomic Bomb: The Critical Issues. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.

Butow, J. C. Japan’s Decision to Surrender. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1954.

Clark, Ronald W. The Greatest Power on Earth: The International Race for Nuclear Supremacy. New York: Harper and Row, 1980.

Craven, Wesley F., and James L. Cate. Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol. 5: The Pacific: Matterhorn to Nagasaki, June 1944 to August 1945. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1948-1958.

Feis, Herbert. The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1966.

Fogelman, Edwin (ed.). Hiroshima: The Decision to Use the A–Bomb. New York: Scribner’s, 1964.

Goodchild, Peter. J. Robert Oppenheimer, ‘‘Shatterer of Worlds’’. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

Herken, Gregg. The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945–1950. New York: Knopf, 1980.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima. New York: Knopf, 1985.

Kolko, Gabriel. The Politics of War: The World and United States Foreign Policy, 1943–1945. New York: Random House, 1968.

Sherwin, Martin J. A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance. New York: Knopf, 1975.

Wyden, Peter. Day One: Before Hiroshima and After. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Unit 13: Looking Back & Looking Forward

Supplementary Readings

Weiler, Peter. British Labour and the Cold War: The Foreign Policy of the Labour Governments, 1945-1951. The Journal of British Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, England's Foreign Relations. (Jan., 1987), pp. 54-82.

Seabury, Paul. Cold War Origins, I. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 1. (Jan., 1968), pp. 169-182.

Thomas, Brian. Cold War Origins, II. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 1. (Jan., 1968), pp. 183-198.

Paul Seabury; Louis Halle; Jean Laloy; Melvin Croan; E. C. May; Herbert Spiro; Pierre Hassner; Donald Watt; Leopold Labedz; Lawrence Martin; Hugh Seton Watson; Stuart Woolf. Origins of the Post-War Crisis: A Discussion. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 2, Reappraisals. (Apr., 1968), pp. 217-252.

Schlauch, Wolfgang. American Policy towards Germany, 1945. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 5, No. 4. (1970), pp. 113-128.

Herring, George C. , Jr. Lend-Lease to Russia and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944-1945. The Journal of American History, Vol. 56, No. 1. (Jun., 1969), pp. 93-114.

Sherwin, Martin J. The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War: U.S. Atomic-Energy Policy and Diplomacy, 1941-45. The American Historical Review, Vol. 78, No. 4. (Oct., 1973), pp. 945-968.

Mark, Eduard. American Policy Toward Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1946: An Alternative Interpretation. The Journal of American History, Vol. 68, No. 2. (Sep., 1981), pp. 313-336.

Wynn, Neil A. The 'Good War': The Second World War and Postwar American Society. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 31, No. 3. (Jul., 1996), pp. 463-482.

Mayne, Richard. The recovery of Europe: from devastation to unity. New York: Harper & Row, c1970.

Blacksell, Mark. Post-war Europe: a political geography. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1978.

Jackson, J. Hampden . The post-war decade: a short history of the world, 1945-1955. London: Goolancz, 1957.

Gerner, Kristian. The Soviet Union and Central Europe in the post-war era: a study in precarious security. Aldershot: Gower, c1985.

Smith, Bradley .F. The war's long shadow: the big four, 1937-1950. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1986.

Linz, Susan J. , ed. The Impact of World War II on the Soviet Union. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, c1985.

Melvyn P. Leffler and David S. Painter. Origins of the Cold War: an international history. London; New York: Routledge, 1994.

Lawrence Aronsen and Martin Kitchen. The origins of the cold war in comparative perspective: American, British, and Canadian relations with the Soviet Union, 1941-48. New York: St. Martin's, c1988.

Marwick, Arthur. War and social change in the twentieth century: a comparative study of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1974.

Dyer, Gwynne. War. New York: Crown, c1985. Based on the PBS television series, War.