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Voices of World War II : Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life /
This book collects a wide variety of primary-source documents drawn from across the United States, Europe, and Asia that illuminate the events and experiences of World War II, the most devastating war in human history.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
GREENWOOD, AN IMPRINT OF ABC-CLIO, LLC,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Voices of an era.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The coming of war in Europe. Fascist pageantry: William Shirer on the Nurnberg rallies, 1934 ; Clare Hollingworth describes the German invasion of Poland, September 1939 ; "September 1, 1939" / W.H. Auden
- From Poland to Pearl Harbor. "The American century," February 1941 / Henry R. Luce ; "America first": U.S. opposition to intervention in World War II / Charles A. Lindbergh, radio address, April 23, 1941 ; Mitsuo Fuchida's recollections of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ; "A date which will live in infamy": Franklin D. Roosevelt, December 7, 1941
- Fighting the war. The siege of Leningrad: diary of Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, March-May 1942 ; A Russian "night witch": reminiscences of Lieutenant Olga Lisikova, pilot, commander of Douglas C-47 aircraft ; The Eastern front: recollections of Hans Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld on the German occupation ; The Eastern front: reminiscences of General Aleksey Kirillovich Gorlinskiy on the Soviet advance, 1944-1945 ; D-Day: diaries of Forrest C. Pogue ; German infantryman Robert Vogt describes the D-Day landings and the Normandy campaign ; David K.E. Bruce describes the liberation of Paris, August 24-15, 1944
- Technology and air power. Letter from an American bomber pilot: Robert S. Raymond to Betty Raymond, January 27, 1943 ; Will of kamikaze pilot Ryoji Uehara, late 1944 or early 1945 ; Father Johannes A Siemes recalls the atomic attack on Hiroshima of August 6, 1945 ; Account of the Japanese surrender ceremony, September 2, 1945 / Toshikazu Kase
- Wartime victims and survivors. A pacifist point of view: Rev. Arle Brooks, statement upon his conviction for draft evasion, January 1941 ; Conditions in the Warsaw ghetto: the diary of Stanislaw Rozycki, November-December 1941 ; The final solution: minutes of the Wannsee Protocol, January 20, 1942 ; Conspiracies of silence: oral history of Martin Koller on German massacres of Jews ; The internment of Japanese Americans: recollections of Mary Tsukamoto ; Roy M. "Max" Offerle recalls working on the Burma-Thailand "death" railway ; Japan's occupation of the Philippines: Claro M. Recto to Lt. Gen. Takaji Wachi, June 15, 1944 ; Japanese biological experiments: testimony of anonymous hygiene specialist of Unit 731 ; Comfort women: account of Ms. K, an anonymous Korean woman ; German women in wartime: reminiscences of Juliane Hartmann
- The war's social and economic impact. The Aryan obsession: Heinrich Himmler, order to the members of the German SS and police, October 28, 1939 ; The British home front: recollections of Pamela Lazarus, October 10, 2001 ; Women and work: oral history of Lola Weixel ; Racial conflicts in the U.S. Army: recollections of Allen Thompson, 758th Tank Battalion.