Remembering The Good War: Minnesota's Greatest Generation

Further Reading

For background knowledge and reading specific to various themes, these reference works provide a good first step. In addition to signed entries, numerous statistics, and many maps, individual articles are followed by suggestions for further reading. Dear, I. C. B., general ed. The Oxford Companion to World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, . Sandler, Stanley, ed. World War II in the Pacific: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, . Zabecki, David T., ed. World War II in Europe: An Encyclopedia. New York: Garland Publishing, . The following works provide overviews of the global conflict and the war’s impacts on American society: O’Neill, William L. A Democracy at War: America’s Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, . Overy, Richard. Why the Allies Won. New York: Norton, . Parker, R. A. C. The Second World War: A Short History. New York: Oxford University Press, . Purdue, A. W. The Second World War. New York: St. Martin’s, . van der Vat, Dan. The Pacific Campaign: The U.S.–Japanese Naval War, 1941–1945. New York: Simon & Schuster, . Winkler, Allan. Home Front U.S.A.: America during World War II. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, . Further Reading 299 Here are helpful starting points for major themes addressed in this book: Basinger, Jeanine. The World War II Combat Film: Anatomy of a Genre. . Reprint, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, . Buchanan, A. Russell. Black Americans in World War II. Santa Barbara, CA: Clio Books, . Daniels, Roger. Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II. New York: Hill and Wang, . Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. . Rev. ed., New York: Columbia University Press, . Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., . ———. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon, . Frank, Richard B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Random House, . Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, . Hynes, Samuel. The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. New York: Penguin, . “Posters of the Second World War.” Kittleson Collection. Minneapolis Public Library. http://www.mplib.org/wpdb/index.asp?. Werrell, Kenneth P. Blankets of Fire: U.S. Bombers over Japan During World War II. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, . Among the many oral history sources on Americans and World War II, these stand out: American Folklife Center. “Veterans History Project.” Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/vets-home.html. Hoopes, Roy. Americans Remember the Home Front: An Oral Narrative of the World War II Years in America. New York: Berkley Books, . “The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience.” Florida State University . http://www.fsu.edu/~ww/. Terkel, Studs. “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II. . Reprint, New York: The New Press, . Many U.S. service veterans have published memoirs of their wartime experiences . These works are among the best, well written and revealing: Fahey, James J. Pacific War Diary, 1942–1945: The Secret Diary of an American Soldier. . Reprint, New York: Mariner Books, . Hynes, Samuel. Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator. . Reprint, New York: Penguin, . Irwin, John P. Another River, Another Town: A Teenage Tank Gunner Comes of Age in Combat, 1945. New York: Random House, . Jernigan, E. J. Tin Can Man. Clearwater, FL: Vandamere Press, . Kernan, Alvin. Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, . Kotlowitz, Robert. Before Their Time: A Memoir. New York: Knopf, . Sledge, E. B. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. . Reprint, New York: Oxford University Press, . F u r t h e r R e a d i n g 300 ...