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Informationen zum Autor Priscilla Roberts , PhD, is associate professor of history at the University of Hong Kong and honorary director of the University's Centre of American Studies. Klappentext Drawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States, Europe, and Asia, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II-the most devastating war in human history. World War II was the most destructive and disruptive war ever, a global conflict that in one way or another affected the lives of people across the planet. Voices of World War II: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life coalesces a wide variety of primary source documents drawn from across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Supplemented by interpretive material that enables readers to analyze them, assess their impact and significance, and place them in context to comparable situations today, the documents provide rare insights into World War II. Expert commentaries and additional information on these texts enable a greater understanding of the background to these documents, providing valuable training in learning to interpret, assess, and evaluate historical sources. Intended primarily for upper-level high school and undergraduate-level history students, general readers will also appreciate the variegated array of primary material from World War II, which depicts numerous aspects of the conflict, often in extremely personal terms. "Students in AP history and literature classes and general library users who want to read words from those who lived through the war years will find this a useful resource." - School Library Journal Zusammenfassung Drawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States! Europe! and Asia! this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II-the most devastating war in human history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction How to Evaluate Primary Documents Chronology DOCUMENTS The Coming of War in Europe 1. Fascist Pageantry: William Shirer on the Nürnberg Rallies, 1934 2. Clare Hollingworth Describes the German Invasion of Poland, September 1939 3. W. H. Auden, "September 1, 1939" From Poland to Pearl Harbor 4. Henry R. Luce, "The American Century," February 1941 5. "America First": U.S. Opposition to Intervention in World War II: Charles A. Lindbergh, Radio Address, April 23, 1941 6. Mitsuo Fuchida's Recollections of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 7. Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy": December 7, 1941 Fighting the War 8. The Siege of Leningrad: Diary of Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, March-May 1942 9. A Russian "Night Witch": Reminiscences of Lieutenant Olga Lisikova, Pilot, Commander of Douglas C-47 Aircraft 10. The Eastern Front: Recollections of Hans Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld on the German Occupation 11. The Eastern Front: Reminiscences of General Aleksey Kirillovich Gorlinskiy on the Soviet Advance, 1944-1945 12. D-Day: Diaries of Forrest C. Pogue 13. German Infantryman Robert Vogt Describes the D-Day Landings and the Normandy Campaign 14. David K. E. Bruce Describes the Liberation of Paris, August 24-25, 1944 Technology and Air Power 15. Letter from an American Bomber Pilot: Robert S. Raymond to Betty Raymond, January 27, 1943 16. Will of Kamikaze Pilot Ryoji Uehara, Late 1944 or Early 1945 17. Father Johannes A. Siemes Recalls the Atomic Attack on Hiroshima of August 6, 1945 18. Toshikazu Kase, Account of the Japanese Surrender Ceremony, September 2, 1945 Wartime Victims and Survivors 19. A Pacifist Point of View: Rev. Arle Brooks, Statement upon His Conviction for Draft Evasion, January 1941 20. Conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto: The Diary of Stanislaw Rozycki, November-December 1941...
