Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Supplemental reading: WWI, WWII, and the Holocaust

WWI                                                                                                   
Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo                                           
The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman                                        
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon                      
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway                                      
All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque               

WWII
The Pacific War: 1931-1945, by Saburo Ienaga
The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang
Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
D-Day, by Stephen Ambrose
Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, by Ronald Takaki

The Holocaust
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Complete Maus, by Art Spiegelmlan
Survival in Auschwitz, by Primo Levi
The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosinski

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