REVISION
MATERIALS
These handouts are meant
to help you understand the readings, and to prepare for the examination.
REVISION
NOTES I - The opening stages of the war
REVISION
NOTES II - The war unfolds 1941-43
REVISION
NOTES III - Endgame 1943-1945
INTERNET RESOURCES
At the time of writing, some
valuable launch sites for Second World War resources include the
following:
http://www.teacheroz.com/wwii.htm
Also, go to the magnificent
hyperwar site at
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/
For personal memoirs and oral
histories, see especially
http://www.teacheroz.com/WWII_Oral_History.htm
For art and propaganda, see
http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIpropaganda.htm
Other general sites:
http://www.museumofworldwarii.com/Tour.htm
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/wwii.htm
www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook45.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/ww2.htm
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bob1940/bobhome.html
(on
the Battle of Britain)
http://www.regiments.org/milhist/wars/ww2/ww2index.htm
A large collection of popular
essays from World War II
magazine is located at:
http://www.historynet.com/wwii/articlearchive/
One often-underplayed aspect of
the war was the role played by Canada and Canadian armed forces. You
can find
excellent materials on this history at
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/cwme.asp
http://www.junobeach.org/Centre/english/Links/links.html
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar
Also, a couple of pieces
written by myself:
A recent article on defining
the chronological span of the war – and debating who
won? - can be
found at http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/chronicles.pdf
I have also studied the fascist
and ultra-Right campaign within the United States in my 1997 book Hoods
and
Shirts, which focuses heavily on
Pennsylvania events and conditions. A lengthy extract can be found at http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/j/p/jpj1/hoods.htm
MAP
RESOURCES
A number of sites offer
excellent MAP resources, too abundant to be listed in detail here.
Suffice it
to say that one or more of these sites will have something valuable for
ANY of
the classes. By far the best and most comprehensive is a site from the
US
Military Academy at West Point, at:
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/ww2%20europe/ww2%20europe%20war%20index.htm
For the Pacific Theater, see
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/ww2%20pacific/ww2%20pacific%20war%20index.htm
West Point also offers great
map resources for the First World War, many of which are highly
relevant to WW2
conditions:
http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/great%20war/great%20war%20index.htm
Other good map resources can be
found for instance at:
http://www.teacheroz.com/WWIIEurope.htm
For a magnificent scholarly
bibliography:
http://www.library.yale.edu/rsc/history/wwii.htm
For new books about the war as
they appear, check out:
http://books.stonebooks.com/reading/
FILM
RESOURCES
For films about the war, both
contemporary and later works, see for instance:
http://www.vietnamwar.net/ww2films.htm
http://www.epinions.com/content_2783420548
http://www.battlebelow.com/videos2.htm
(Do note that the reference on
this page to extra credit does NOT apply to this course!)
INTO THE COLD WAR
For the aftermath of the war and the
growing hostility between East and West, check out the chronology
in this handout.
There are LOTS of other
possibilities out there, which you will certainly use in your paper. As
you
must know, web-sites change frequently, so donÕt be surprised if
some of these
links are obsolete by the time you try them.