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This work succeeds admirably in presenting complex historical and cultural events in a comprehensive format.
—Choice (print)
This book should be on your shelf.
—School Library Journal (print)
With insightful analysis, factual contextual
information, and illuminating historical documents, this sourcebook
provides a detailed, but broad perspective on the most destructive
event in history. The literature analyzed in this book includes
that of novelists and poets such as Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer,
Irwin Shaw, Kurt Vonnegut, William Styron, Richard Wilbur, James
Dickey, Paul West, and Bette Green. Along with interviews
with these literary luminaries that personalize the war and
help to make connections between the literature and the actual experiences
of those involved, Meredith also provides rare historical documents
that enhance the reader's understanding of the military and political
strategies of the major forces of the war.
Primary documents, including interviews and
memoirs, will help students to build bridges between history and
the fictional accounts they read. A valuable tool for interdisciplinary
study of World War II and the literature that is most frequently
taught in high school English and history classes, this online sourcebook
provides the user access to:
- Critical reviews of The Naked and the Dead, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse-Five,
and Hiroshima
- Biographical profiles of Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Martha
Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Bette Green, William Styron, Elie Wiesel,
Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, Randall Jarrell, Ernie Pyle, Joseph
Conrad, David Guterson, John Steinbeck, Jack Higgins, Paul West,
Jack Hemingway, Viktor Frankl, Charlotte Delbo and John Hersey
- Audio and video of William Styron on his approach to writing
Sophie's Choice
- Video and audio excerpts from testimony of Holocaust survivors
- Audio of Joseph Heller reading from Catch-22
- Interview with David Guterson on Snow Falling on Cedars
- Audio of Elie Wiesel discussing the mission in his teaching
and what drives him
- Biographical profiles of key figures from World War II including:
Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Adolf Hitler, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, George Patton, Jr., Douglas MacArthur, Chester
Nimitz and others
- Historical photograph collections of concentration camps including
Auschwitz, Dauchau and Buchenwald
- World War II battle sites including: Evacuation from Dunkirk,
The London Blitz, Normandy Invasion, Operation Barbarossa, Pearl
Harbor and more
- Glossary of World War II terms and battles
- Web-based study questions
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