Bibliography: World War II
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| Author | Title |
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Abbazia, Patrick |
Mr. Roosevelt's Navy: The Private War of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, 1939-1942. Naval Institute Press, 1975. |
| Altschuler, Glenn C. and Stuart M. Blumin |
The GI Bill: A New Deal for Veterans. Oxford University Press, 2009. |
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Asahina, Robert |
Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad. Gotham Books, 2006. |
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Asada, Sadao
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Culture Shock and Japanese-American Relations: Historical Essays University of Missouri Press, 2007. |
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Atkinson, Rick
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The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 Henry Holt, 2007. |
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Bailey, Thomas A. and Paul B. Ryan |
Hitler vs. Roosevelt: The Undeclared Naval War. Free Press, 1979. |
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Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee R.
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The OSS and Ho Chi Minh; Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan University Press of Kansas, 2006 |
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Beard, Charles A. |
President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: A Study in Appearances and Realities. Yale University Press, 1948 |
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Bennett, Edward M. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Search for Victory: American-Soviet Relations, 1939-1945. SR Books, 1990. |
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Berthon, Simon |
Allies at War: The Bitter Rivalry among Churchill, Roosevelt and de Gaulle. Carroll & Graf, 2001. |
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Beschloss, Michael |
The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945. Simon & Schuster, 2002. |
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Blum, John M. |
From the Morgenthau Diaries: Years of War, 1941-1945. Houghton Mifflin, 1967. |
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Breitman, Richard, et al. |
U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935 Indiana University Press, 2007
Refugees and Rescue; the Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945 Indiana University Press, 2009 |
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Burns, James M. |
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970. |
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Butler, Susan, ed. |
My Dear Mr. Stalin: The Complete Correspondence Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin Yale University Press, 2005. |
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Capper, Eleanor
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"Caroline Ware and the Office of Price Administration: A Case Study of Consumer Politics during the Second World War" In Consuming Visions: New Essays on the Politics of Consumption in Modern America edited by Daniel Scroop Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007 |
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Carew, Michael G. |
The Power to Persuade: FDR, the Newsmagazines, and Going to War, 1939-1941. University Press of America, 2005. |
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Casey, Steven |
Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War against Nazi Germany. Oxford University Press, 2001. |
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Charles, Douglas M.
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J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security, 1939-1945 Ohio State University Press, 2007 |
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Cole, Wayne S. |
Roosevelt and the Isolationists, 1932-45. University of Nebraska Press, 1983. |
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Connant, Jennet
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The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington Simon & Schuster, 2008 |
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Craig, R. Bruce. |
Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Spy Case. University Press of Kansas, 2004. |
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Dallek, Robert |
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. Oxford University Press, 1995. |
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Davis, Kenneth S. |
FDR, the War President, 1940-1943. Random House, 2000. |
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Davis, Michael W.R.
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Detroit's Wartime Industry: Arsenal of Democracy Arcadia Publishing, 2007 |
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Del Castillo, Richard Griswold
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World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights University of Texas Press, 2008 |
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DePastino, Todd
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Bill Mauldin: A Life Up Front W.W. Norton, 2008 |
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DeWhitt, Benjamin L.
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Records Relating to Personal Participation in World War II: Military Awards and Decorations National Archives and records Administration, 2007 |
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Divine, Robert A. |
Roosevelt and World War II. Johns Hopkins Press, 1969. |
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Doenecke, Justus D. |
The Battle against Intervention, 1939-1941. Krieger, 1997.
Storm on the Horizon: The Challenge to American Intervention, 1939-1941. Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. |
| Dwork, Deborah and Robert Jan van Peklt |
Flight from the Reich, Refugee Jews, 1933-1946. W.W. Norton, 2009. |
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Edmonds, Robin |
The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin in Peace and War. Norton, 1991. |
| Edsel, Robert M. |
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History. Center Street, 2009. |
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Eubank, Keith |
Summit at Teheran. William Morrow, 1985. |
| Evans, Richard J. |
The Third Reich at War. Penguin Press, 2009. |
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Fehrenbach, T.R. |
F.D.R.'s Undeclared War, 1939-1941. D. McKay, 1967. |
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Feis, Herbert |
The China Tangle; the American Effort in China from Pearl Harbor to the Marshall Mission. Princeton University Press, 1953.
Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin: The War They Waged and the Peace They Sought. Princeton University Press, 1957.
The Road to Pearl Harbor: The Coming of the War between the United States and Japan. Princeton University Press, 1950. |
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Ferrell, Robert H. |
The Dying President: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944-1945. University of Missouri Press, 1998. |
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Fleming, Thomas J. |
The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War within World War II. Basic Books, 2001. |
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Freidel, Frank |
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny. Little, 1990. |
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Friedländer, Saul
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The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 Harper Collins, 2007 |
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Gardiner, Juliet
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The Animals' War: Animals in Wartime from the First World War to the Present Day Portrait in association with the Imperial War Museum, 2006 |
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Goodwin, Doris Kearns |
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Simon & Schuster, 1994. |
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Gordin, Michael D.
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Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War Princeton University Press, 2007 |
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Gordon, Linda and Gary Y. Okihiro
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Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment W.W. Norton, 2006 |
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Graham, Otis L. and Meghan R. Wander, eds. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt, His Life & Times: An Encyclopedic View. G.K. Hall, 1985. |
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Gunther, John |
Roosevelt in Retrospect, a Profile in History. Pyramid, 1962. |
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Hearden, Patrick J. |
Roosevelt Confronts Hitler: America's Entry into World War II. Northern Illinois University Press, 1986. |
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Herzstein, Robert E. |
Roosevelt and Hitler: Prelude to War. Paragon House, 1989. |
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Higgs, Robert |
Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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Hillstrom, Laurie Collier
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The Attack on Pearl Harbor Omnigraphics, 2009 |
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Hipperson, Carol Edgemon
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Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor and WWII in the Pacific Thomas Dunne Books, 2008 |
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Hough, Richard A. |
The Greatest Crusade: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Naval Wars. Morrow, 1986. |
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Humes, Edward
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Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream Harcourt, 2006 |
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Jefferson, Robert F. |
Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. |
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Johnson, David Alan
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Betrayal: The True Story of J. Edgar Hoover and the Nazi Saboteurs Capture during WWII Hippocrene Books, 2007 |
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Kennedy, David |
Freedom from Fear: The American People in World War II. Oxford University Press, 1999. |
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Kersten, Andrew E.
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Labor's Home Front: The American Federation of Labor during World War II New York University Press, 2006 |
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Kimball, Warren F. |
Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence. Princeton University Press, 1984.
Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill and the Second World War. W. Morrow, 1996.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the World Crisis, 1937-1945. Heath, 1973.
The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman. Princeton University Press, 1991. |
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Kinsella, William E. |
Leadership in Isolation: FDR and the Origins of the Second World War. G.K. Hall, 1978. |
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Langer, William L. and S. Everett Gleason |
The Challenge to Isolation, 1937-1940. Harper, 1952.
The Undeclared War, 1940-1941. Harper, 1953. |
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Larrabee, Eric |
Commander in Chief: FranklinDelanoRoosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War. Harper & Row, 1987. |
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Lash, Joseph P. |
Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939-1941: The Partnership that Saved the West. Norton, 1976. |
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Layton, Edwin T., et al. |
"And I Was There": Pearl Harbor and Midway - Breaking the Secrets. Morrow, 1985. |
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Loewenheim, Francis, ed. |
Roosevelt and Churchill, Their Secret Wartime Correspondence. Saturday Review Press, 1975. |
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Lorenz-Meyer, Martin
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Safehaven: The Allied Pursuit of Nazi Assets Abroad University of Missouri Press, 2007 |
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Malkin, Lawrence
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Krueger's Men: The Secret Nazi Counterfeit Plot and the Prisoners of Block 19 Little, Brown, 2006 |
| Malloy, Sean L. |
Atomic Tragedy: Henry L. Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb against Japan. Cornell University Press, 2008. |
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Melosi, Martin V. |
The Shadow of Pearl Harbor: Political Controversy over the Surprise Attack, 1941-1946. Texas A&M University Press, 1977. |
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Miller, Edward S.
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Bankrupting the Enemy; the U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor Naval Institute Press, 2007 |
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Millis, Walter |
This Is Pearl! The United States and Japan, 1941. W. Morrow, 1947. |
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Muller, Eric L.
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American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II University of North Carolina Press, 2007 |
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Mulligan, Timothy P.
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World War II: Guide to Records Relating to U.S. Military Participation (2 vols.) NARA, 2008 |
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Myers, Helen
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Hyde Park and Staatsburg, New York during World War II, 1942-1944 Town of Hyde Park Historical Society, 2008 |
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Ogilvie, Sarah A. and Scott Miller |
Refuge Denied: The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust University of Wisconsin Press, 2006 |
| Ortiz, Stephen R. |
Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill : How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal Era. New York University Press, 2010. |
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O'Sullivan, Christopher |
Sumner Welles, Postwar Planning, and the Quest for a New World Order, 1937-1943. Columbia University Press, 2008. |
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Pabico, Rufino C.
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The Exiled Government: The Philippine Commonwealth in the United States during the Second World War Humanity Books, 2006 |
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Perlmutter, Amos |
FDR and Stalin: A Not So Grand Alliance, 1943-1945. University of Missouri Press, 1993. |
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Perry, Mark
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Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace Penguin Press, 2007 |
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Persico, Joseph E. |
Roosevelt's Secret War; FDR and World War II Espionage. Random House, 2001. |
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Prange, Gordon W. |
At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. McGraw-Hill, 1981. |
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Reynolds, David |
From Munich to Pearl Harbor : Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War. Ivan R. Dee, 2001. |
| Roberts, Andrew |
Masters and Commanders : How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945. HarperCollins, 2009. |
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Roberts, Geoffrey
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Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953 Yale University Press, 2006 |
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Rodrigues, Luis Nuno
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Franklin Roosevelt and the Azores during the Two World Wars Luso-American Foundation, 2008 |
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Rosen, Robert N. |
Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust. Thunder's Mountain Press, 2006. |
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Rotter, Andrew J.
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Hiroshima: The World's Bomb Oxford University Press, 2008 |
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Saul, Norman E.
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Friends or Foes? The United States and Soviet Russia, 1921-1941 University Press of Kansas, 2006 |
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Schmidt, Amy and Gundrun Loehrer
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The Mauthausen Concentration CampComplex: World War II and Postwar Records National Archives and Records Administration, 2008 |
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Schroeder, Paul W. |
The Axis Alliance and Japanese-American Relations, 1941. Cornell University Press, 1958. |
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Seib, Philip M.
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Broadcasts from the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War Potomac Books, 2006 |
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Sherwood, Robert E. |
Roosevelt and Hopkins, an Intimate History. Harper, 1950. |
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Smith, Stanley H. |
Investigations of the Attack on Pearl Harbor: Index to Government Hearings. Greenwood Press, 1990. |
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Spector, Ronald H. |
Eagle against the Sun: The American War with Japan. Free Press, 1985. |
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Stafford, David |
Roosevelt and Churchill: Men of Secrets. Overlook Press, 2000. |
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Stettinius, Edward R. |
Roosevelt and the Russians; the Yalta Conference. Doubleday, 1949. |
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Stinnett, Robert B. |
Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor. Free Press, 1999. |
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Stoler, Mark A. |
Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand Alliance and U.S. Strategy in World War II. University of North Carolina Press, 2000. |
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Swift, Will |
The Kennedys amidst the Gathering Storm: A Thousand Days in London, 1938-1940. Smithsonian Books, 2008. |
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Tanaka, Shelley |
Attack on Pearl Harbor: The True Story of the Day America Entered World War II. Hyperion Books for Children, 2001. |
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Tansill, Charles C. |
Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933-1941. Henry Regnery, 1952. |
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Taylor, Myron |
Wartime Correspondence between President Roosevelt and Pope Pius XII. Macmillan, 1947. |
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Thomas, Evan
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Naval Campaign, 1941-1945 Simon & Schuster, 2006 |
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Thompson, Peter A.
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Pacific Fury: How Australia and Her Allies Defeated the Japanese Scourge William Heinemann, 2008 |
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Thompson, Robert S. |
A Time for War: FranklinDelanoRoosevelt and the Path to Pearl Harbor. Prentice Hall Press, 1991. |
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Thorne, Christopher G. |
Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War against Japan, 1941-1945 Oxford University Press, 1978. |
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Toland, John |
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath. Berkley, 1983.
The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945. Random House, 1970. |
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U.S. Congress |
Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946. (39 volumes) |
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Vaughan, Hal |
FDR's 12 Apostles: The Spies who Paved the Way for the Invasion of North Africa. Lyons Press, 2006. |
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Victor, George
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The Pearl Harbor Myth: Rethinking the Unthinkable Potomac Books, 2007 |
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Vogel, Steve |
The Pentagon: A History: The Untold Story of the Wartime Race to Build the Pentagon and -- to Restore It Sixty Years Later. Random House, 2007. |
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von Hassell, Agostino and Sigrid MacRae
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Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II Thomas Dunne Books, 2006 |
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Waddell, Brian |
The War against the New Deal: World War II and American Democracy. Northern Illinois University Press, 2001. |
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Weinberg, Gerhard L. |
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994. |
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Weintraub, Stanley |
Long Day's Journey into War: December 7, 1941. Dutton, 1991.
15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century Free Press, 2007 |
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Wilson, Theodore A. |
The First Summit: Roosevelt and Churchill at Placentia Bay, 1941. University Press of Kansas, 1991. |
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Wohlstetter, Roberta |
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Stanford University Press, 1962. |
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Worth, Roland H., Jr. |
Pearl Harbor: Selected Testimonies, Fully Indexed, from the Congressional Hearings (1945-1946) and Prior Investigations of the Events Leading up to the Attack. McFarland, 1993. |
| Wukovits, John |
American Commando : Evans Carlson, His WW II Marine Raiders, and America’s First Special Forces Mission. New American Library, 2009. |
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Yenne, Bill
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Rising Sons: The Japanese American GIs Who Fought for The United States in World War II Thomas Dunne Books, 2007 |


