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World War II

History Department

 

 

Course Description:  An introduction to World War II in both Europe and the Pacific

 

Credits:  1

 

Texts:

            The War, by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns

            Navajo Code Talkers – America’s Secret Weapon in World War II, Nathan Aaseng

            War in the Pacific, volume 1, Brigadier General Jerome T. Hagen, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret)

            The Pearl Harbor Story, Captain William T. Rice, USNR (Ret)

            Pearl Harbor:  U.S. Enters World War II, by Richard Tames

            America At War:  World War II, by Tom McGowen

            World War II for Kids, by Richard Panchyk

            Good Fight: How World War II Was Won, by Stephen E. Ambrose

            Key Battles of World War II, by Fiona Reynoldson

            Air Raid-Pearl Harbor! The Story of December 7th, by Theodore Taylor

            Pearl Harbor, by Stephen Krensky

            Boy at War:  A Novel of Pearl Harbor, by Harry Mazer

            Victory in the Pacific,

            Hiroshima, by John Hersey

            Hiroshima, by Laurence Yep

            Sadako and the 1000 Paper Cranes, by Eleanor Coerr

            Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

            The House of Sixty Fathers, by Meindert DeJong

            Snow Treasure, by Marie McSwigan

            It Began With A Parachute, by William R. Rang

            The Hiding Place, by Corrie ten Boom

            The Small War of Sergeant Donkey, by Maureen Daly

            Flags of our Fathers: Heroes of Iwo Jima, by James Bradley w/ Ron Powers

            A Father’s Promise, by Donnalynn Hess

            Raoul Wallenberg:  The Man Who Stopped Death, by Sharon Linnéa

            Escape From Warsaw, by Ian Serveiller

            Hey, Mac! by William F. McMurdie

            Journey Through the Night, by Anne DeVries

            My Secret Camera: Life in the Lodz Ghetto, by Frank Dabba Smith, Mendel Grossman

            Twenty and Ten, by Claire Huchet Bishop

            The Winged Watchman, by Hilda Van Stockum

            Surviving Hitler:  A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, by Andrea Warren

            Anne Frank:  Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank

            Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust, by Susan D. Bachrach

            When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, by Judith Kerr

            The History Buff’s Guide to World War II, Thomas R. Flagel

 

Movies:

            The War, PBS documentary

            Schindler’s List

 

Field Trip:  Pearl Harbor (recommend two days to see everything if taking shuttle busses)

USS Oklahoma Memorial

USS Arizona Memorial

Battleship Missouri Memorial – highly recommend both tours

USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park

Pacific Aviation Museum