| Description |
xxxix, 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Primary sources. Intensification (Winston Churchill, "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat"; "Be ye men of valour"; "Their finest hour"; Winston Churchill (box) -- Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt (box), The Atlantic Charter -- Adolf Hitler, "Hitler's order of the day to the German troops on the Eastern Front"; Adolf Hitler (box); Joseph Stalin (box) -- Herbert A. Werner, Iron coffins : a personal account of the German u-boat battles of World War II -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A date which will live in infamy"; Hideki Tojo (box)) -- Home Front (Catherine 'Renee' Young Pike, Since you went away : World War II letters from American women on the home front -- Jerry Stanley, I am and American : a true story of Japanese internment) |
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The human cost (Ruth Minsky Sender, The cage; Ruth Minsky Sender (box) -- Harry S. Truman, Comments on the Manhattan project from Memoirs by Harry S. Truman, volume 1 : year of decisions; Harry S. Truman (box) -- Rodney Barker, The Hiroshima maidens : a story of courage, compassion, and survival -- Ernie Pyle, "Notes from a battered country"; "The death of Captain Waskow"; Ernie Pyle (box); "I thought it was the end"; "Waiting for tomorrow"; "On victory in Europe" -- World War II nurses, No time for fear : voices of American military nurses in World War II) |
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Breakthrough (Veterans of D-Day, Voices of D-Day : the story of the allid invasion told by those who were there -- Stephen E. Ambrose, Citizen soldiers : the U.S. army from the Normandy beaches to the Bulge to the surrender of Germany -- E. B. Sledge, E. B. Sledge (box); With the old breed at Peleliu and Okinawa -- Harry S. Truman, Truman's statement of the German surrender; Truman's statement on the Japanese surrender; Douglas MacArthur (box) |
| Summary |
Presents fifteen excerpts from primary sources related to World War II, including speeches, diary entries, newspaper accounts, novels, poems, and memoirs |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Sources.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Sources.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Juvenile works.
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Sources.
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Sources.
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| Author |
Slovey, Christine.
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Bigelow, Barbara C.
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| LC no. |
99027170 |
| ISBN |
078763896X |
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