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226 reviews
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Houghton Mifflin, 2002

Great book
The book was very well written and you could actually put yourself in some of the incidents that happened through her life. It is very hard to belief that this discrimination happened in our country less that 75 years ago. Great read.

In Defense of Our Neighbors: The Walt and Milly Woodward Story

3 reviews
Mary Woodward

Fenwick Publishing Group, 2008

A unique, informative, and highly recommended addition
One of the tragic consequences of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 was the panicked reaction of the American government resulting in the forcible relocation of the Japanese Americans into internment camps for the duration of the war years. "In Defense Of Our Neighbors: The Walt And Milly Woodward Story" is the true and personal account of a husband and wife who used the ...

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy (The Liberation ...

154 reviews
Rick Atkinson

Holt Paperbacks, 2007

US Army and its WWII baptism
A in depth and fair treatment of all the partys involved in Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa.

Baseball Saved Us

16 reviews
Ken Mochizuki

Lee & Low Books, 1995

Baseball Saved US
Mochizuki, K. (1993). Baseball Saved Us. New York. LEE & LOW BOOKS. The story of "Shorty" and his family living at an interment camp during WWII can be used when teaching students about war, especially WWII. Younger students can relate to the character of "Shorty" and his struggles with fitting in and the hardships he feels among peers. Older students can debate the equality issues and the ...

Death of the Wehrmacht: The German Campaigns of 1942 (Modern War Studies)

17 reviews
Robert M. Citino

University Press of Kansas, 2007

A Great Addition to WWII Literature
This is another superb work by author Citino, although the publisher's editor did a poor job of filtering out typos and spelling mistakes. Nonetheless, I recommend this book to any person who wishes to understand why the Germans were able to do so well, so many times, throughout World War II. This book should be read AFTER reading Citino's "Path To Blitzkrieg" and "The German Way Of War" ...

AFTER STALINGRAD: The Red Army's Winter Offensive, 1942-1943
David Glantz

Helion and Company Ltd, 2008

In the wake of the Red Army's signal victory at Stalingrad, which began when its surprise counteroffensive encircled German Sixth Army in Stalingrad region in mid-November 1942 and ended when its forces liquidated beleaguered Sixth Army in early February 1943, the Soviet High Command (Stavka) expanded its counteroffensive into a full-fledged winter offensive which nearly collapsed German defenses in southern Russia. Exploiting newly released ...

Sunday Afternoon on the Porch: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942 (Bur Oak Book)

4 reviews
Jim Heynen

University Of Iowa Press, 2007

Nostalgic
This is a wonderful book to evoke those bygone memories. The pictures bring back so many memories from my own childhood years. The writing just ties it all together and transports you back in time. It stimulates thoughts and feelings from a simpler and slower paced time. Very enjoyable. Makes for good conversation with family and friends from the past! Loved It!!!!!!!!!

Bracelet,The

7 reviews
Yoshiko Uchida

Putnam Juvenile, 1996

an importance lesson in memory
In the first illustration we see two typically Californian homes with cars in their driveways. One has a "For Sale" sign on its front steps. Emi, a second grader, sits and waits. Her father has been sent to a prison camp in Montana, and soon the FBI will take her, her sister, and her mother to a detention center and then to a detention camp in Utah. Emi and her family are Japanese Americans ...

USN Carriers vs IJN Carriers: The Pacific, 1942 (Duel)

3 reviews
Mark Stille

Osprey Publishing, 2007

An Excellent Look into the Dynamics of Carrier Warfare
The epic duel in the Pacific Ocean in 1942 between the carriers of the Imperial Japanese Navy's Kido Butai (Mobile Force) and the carriers of the United States Navy makes for dramatic history and this story is told with great verve and insight by Commander (ret.) Mark Stille. USN Carriers vs IJN Carriers is the sixth volume in Osprey's new Duel series and readers need not fear that this is a ...

Through the Maelstrom: A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945 (Modern War Studies)
Boris Gorbachevsky

University Press of Kansas, 2008

The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front - Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk - are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts.Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first saw front-line duty as a rifleman in the 30th Army. "Through the Maelstrom" recounts his three harrowing years on some of the war's grimmest but forgotten ...

I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years

30 reviews
Victor Klemperer

Modern Library, 2001

The most compelling book I have ever read
Because my friends all know what a book-hound I am, people often ask me what my all-time favorite book is. Admittedly the answer to this would change over time, but, at present, "I Will Bear Witness" is the one that first pops into my mind. I found this very personal account of the days and nights of a German Jewish man--an inoffensive and formerly rather conservative German nationalist ...

Waffen-SS Knights and their Battles: The Waffen-ss Knight's Cross Holders: 1939-1942

1 review
Peter Mooney

Schiffer Pub Ltd, 2008

Interesting
This book traces the units and men who won the Knights Cross of the Waffen SS during the period of 1933 - 1942 and also covers the formation of each individual unit the holders were assigned too. It gives a thumbnail sketch first of the campaign where the units of the Waffen SS were involved with, some nice maps detailing the advance axis of these divisons and where they were when the men won ...

Weedflower

12 reviews
Cynthia Kadohata

Atheneum, 2006

Up for a challenge
I am in love with this book! Weedflower is about a twelve year old Japanese-American girl named Sumiko. Her parents died when she was little so she lived with her Aunt, Uncle, Grandfather and cousins. They raise a flower farm until Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and they had to go live in a war camp in Poston, Arizona. This book is a serious book, but it has a bit of humor. I would say that this is a ...

War of the Rats

220 reviews
David L. Robbins

Bantam, 2000

5 Star Sniper Masterpiece Novel
I do not give 5 star ratings to many books but this novel set in the ruins of Stalingrad definitely deserves the max rating. It is Red supersniper against Nazi supersniper in a battle that can only end one way. Vasiley Zaitsev is running a local sniper school right in Stalingrad during the height of the struggle for control of this non-strategic value city that Stalin and Hitler chose to wrestle ...

Sevastopol 1942: Von Manstein's triumph (Campaign)

10 reviews
Robert Forczyk

Osprey Publishing, 2008

Well Written Operational Account of the Siege
The original plans for the Barbarossa Operation did not call for the seizure of the Crimean Peninsula. Things changed quickly when on July 13, six Soviet bombers based in the Crimea attacked the Romanian oil fields in Ploesti. Within a week, 11,000 tons of precious fuel went up in flames. Hitler and the German Army Staff soon viewed the Crimean Peninsula as an aircraft carrier aimed directly ...

The Guadalcanal Air War: Col. Jefferson Deblanc's Story

2 reviews
Jefferson J. Deblanc

Pelican Publishing Company, 2008

A worthwhile addition to any World War II library
Probably the last Medal of Honor winner of World War II to write his biography, Marine pilot Colonel Jefferson J DeBlanc died in Lafayette, Louisiana in 2007. This is a fine personal narrative from one of the last of the great generation. DeBlanc was born in 1921 in Lockport, Louisiana, and died in his native Louisiana in 2007. In between he packed several lifetimes. He learned to fly at age ...

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway

113 reviews
Jonathan Parshall, Anthony Tully

Potomac Books Inc., 2005

A History Book That Delivers What The Movie Couldn't
I was rather surprised that the authors make no mention of the actual prime source for the Battle of Midway that most Americans carry around in their heads: the 1976 film, "Midway." With familiar names like Henry Fonda, Glenn Ford, Robert Mitchum, Hal Holbrook and Charlton Heston, the film reinforces the popular wisdom that an under gunned American Naval task force, on June 5, 1942, surprised the ...

Tallgrass

28 reviews

St. Martin's Press, 2007

Wisdom earned then learned
After the surprise attack of Pearl Harbor during WWII, President Roosevelt signed an act that forced Japanese American's to be relocated to interment camps. One such camp, built on beet field land in Colorado, brought much change to the small town of Ellis. Rennie, 13, and her family of 5 own the beet farm close to the camp and through this innocent, yet wise little girl we learn the perils of ...

Obasan

58 reviews
Joy Kogawa

Anchor, 1993

Amazing!
I just finished this book and I've got to say it was the most sincere and vivid book I have read in a long time. Readers with open mind will greatly enjoy "Obasan" and will be glad that they bought it. I strongly recommend this book. PS I, just like others, read this book for school. It is very important that children understand this book because it hides a lot of life lessons among its ...

Steinbeck Novels 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden (Library of America)

4 reviews
John Steinbeck

Library of America, 2002

A Nobel Laureate's Eden and Our Many Faults and Failures.
Whenever "the great American novel" comes up in conversation, the names most frequently bandied about are Fitzgerald ("The Great Gatsby"), Faulkner ("The Sound and the Fury"), Hemingway ("The Old Man and the Sea") - and John Steinbeck, chronicler of rural California and the ordinary man's plight, like Faulkner and Hemingway winner of both the Literature Nobel Prize (1962) and the Pulitzer (1940, ...

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