U.X.L World War II Reference Library All 5 Volumes

George Feldman | U.X.L Gale Group | PDF | 33.56 MB | 1081 Pages | 2000 | ISBN: 0787639019Brief Description: In depth information and coverage of significant events, topics, and people related to the World War IIperiod.Volume 1: Almanac1Volume 2: Almanac2Volume 3: BibliographyVolume 4: Primary SourcesVolume 5: Index1.Background to War2.The Beginning of the War in Europe3.The War Expands4.Japan Attacks and America Goes to War5.The Home Front6.Europe Under Occupation7.The Holocaust8.The Impact of Total War9.The Allies and the Axis10. Turning Points: The Allies Begin to Win the War11. The Great Invasion: Operation Overlord12. The Defeat of Germany13. The War Against Japan14. The Defeat of Japan15. Spies and Scientists16. Art, Entertainment, and Propaganda17. The World After the War1.Frank Capra2.Neville Chamberlain3.Chiang Kai-Shek4.Winston Churchill5.Jacqueline Cochran6.Benjamin O. Davis, Jr7.Benjamin O. Davis, Sr8.Charles de Gaulle9.Dwight D. Eisenhower10. Hermann Göring11. Hirohito12. Adolf Hitler13. Oveta Culp Hobby14. Franz Jaggerstatter15. Fred T. Korematsu16. Douglas MacArthur17. George C. Marshall18. Bernard Montgomery19. Benito Mussolini20. The Navajo Code Talkers21. J. Robert Oppenheimer22. George S. Patton23. Ernie Pyle24. Jeannette Rankin25. Erwin Rommel26. Franklin D. Roosevelt27. Joseph Stalin28. Edith Stein29. Dorothy Thompson30. Hideki Tojo31. Harry S. Truman1.IntensificationWinston Churchill“Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat”“Be Ye Men of Valour”“Their Finest Hour”Winston Churchill and Franklin D. RooseveltThe Atlantic CharterAdolf Hitler“Hitler’s Order of the Day to the German Troops on the Eastern Front”Herbert A. WernerIron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War IIFranklin D. Roosevelt“A Date Which Will Live in Infamy”2.Home FrontCatherine “Renee” Young PikeSince You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home FrontJerry StanleyI Am an American: A True Story of Japanese Internment3.The Human CostRuth Minsky SenderThe CageHarry S. TrumanComments on the Manhattan Project from Memoirs by Harry S. TrumanVolume 1: Year of DecisionsRodney BarkerThe Hiroshima Maidens: A Story of Courage, Compassion, and SurvivalErnie Pyle“Notes from a Battered Country”“The Death of Captain Waskow”“I Thought It Was the End”“Waiting for Tomorrow”“On Victory in Europe”World War II NursesNo Time for Fear: Voices of American Military Nurses in World War II4. BreakthroughVeterans of D-DayVoices of D-Day: The Story of the Allied Invasion Told By Those Who Were ThereStephen E. AmbroseCitizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of GermanyE. B. SledgeWith the Old Breed at Peleliu and OkinawaHarry S. TrumanTruman’s Statement on the German SurrenderTruman’s Statement on the Japanese Surrender