Please note that we separated The Holocaust from the actually war books the best we could as we wanted to treat this part of the history of the world with dignity and the grace it needs to. Please also know that as we have some pretty graphic books listed, we did not use them all with all of our children. Some of my younger children were not prepared to view the images these books and movies brought. It is a tragic thing that happened and needed to be treated with the utmost dignity any human being deserves. It is hard enough to swallow the images as a grown adult, I can only imagine what a child's view on this could be. Please use judgment in your selection of books, movies and other material as you present this awful episode in World History.

Please see the General History page for more books and links.

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Resources

Books

Non-Fiction--Information books:

	*Adolf Hitler* by Liz Gogerly (Raintree, 2202, 0739852566)
	American Generals of World War II by Ron Knapp(Enslow, ISBN 0766010244)
	*America in World War II 1944* by Edward F. Dolan (Millbrook, 1993; ISBN 1562942212)
	*Causes of World War II* by Jim Corrigan (Ottn, 2005; ISBN 1595560041)
	*Design for Victory* by William L. Bird, Jr. and Harry R. Rubenstein (Princeton, 1998; ISBN 1568981406)
	*Faces of Courage* by Sally M. Rogow (Granville, 2003: ISBN 1894694201)
	*Helldiver Units of World War 2* by Barrett Tillman (Osprey, 1997; ISBN 1855326892)
	Hiroshima by John Hersey (Borzio, 1946 (renewed 1973; ISBN 03945484442) RA
	Hiroshima by Jason Hook (Raintree, 2003; ISBN 0738952345)
	*Letters from the Homefront World War II* by Virginia Schomp (Benchmark, 2002; ISBN 0761410988)
	Hiroshima and Nagasaki by R. G. Grant (Raintree, 1998; ISBN 0817250131)
	*Life in a Japanese American internment Camp* by Diane Yancey (Lucent, 1998; ISBN 1560063459)
	*On the Front Line Under Fire in World War II* by Brain Fitzgerald (Raintree, 2006; ISBN 1410914682)
	Ships of World War II by John Ward (MBI, 2000; SIBN 0760309353)
	*Sinking of the Bismarck* by Samuel Willard Crompton (Chelsea, 2004; ISBN 0791074382)
	*Spies and Spying* by Kate Walker and Elaine Argaet (A+, 2004; ISBN 158340340X)
	*Steal Ships and iron Men* by Bruce Roberts and Ray Jones (The Globe Pequot, 1991; ISBN 0871062445)
	*The Allies Against the Axis* by Richard Steins (Twenty-first Century Books, 1992; ISBN 0805025863)
	*The Attack on Pearl Harbor* by Tim McNeese, ( Morgan, 2002; ISBN 1883846781)
	*The Code Talkers* by Robert Daily (FRANKLIN Watts, 1995; ISBN 0531201902)
	*The Complete Idiot's Guide to Nazi Germany* by Robert Smith Thompson (Alpha, 2003; ISBN 0028644751)
	*The War in the Pacific* by Peter Chrisp (Raintree, 2004; ISBN 0739860631)
	The War in the Pacific by Jonathan Gawne (Chelsea, 1996; ISBN 0791053709)
	*U.S. Navy Fighters of WWII* by Barrett Tillman and Robert L. Lawson (MBI, 1998; ISBN 0760305595)
	*V is for Victory* by Sylvia Whitman (Lerner, 1993; ISBN 0822518282)
	Ultra Hush-Hush by Stephen Shapiro and Tina Forrester (Annick, 2003; ISBN 1550377787)
	World War II by Kathlyn Gay and Martin Gay (Twenty-first Century books, 1995; ISBN 085028498)
	World War II *Europe* by Margaret J. Goldstein (Lerner, 2004; ISBN 0822501392)
	*World War II for Dummies* by Keith D. Dickson (Wiley, 2001; ISBN 0764553526)
	*Yankee Doodle Gal* by Amy Nathan (National Geographic Society, 2001; ISBN 0792282167)
	World War II the War in the Pacific by Don Nardo (Lucent, 1991; ISBN 1560064080)

The Holocaust:

	*Always Remember Me* by Marisabina Russo (Atheneum, 2005; ISBN 0689869207)
	*Art, Music and Writings from the Holocaust* by Susan Willoughby (Heinemann, 2003; ISBN 1403408084)
	*Fighting Back* by David Downing 2006; ISBN 0836859464)
	Hidden Child by Isaac Hillman (Frances Foster, 2005; ISBN 0374330719)
	Liberation by E. Tina Tito (Rosen, 1999; ISBN 0823928462)
	*Oskar Schindler* by Jeremy Roberts (Rose, 2000; ISBN 0823933105)
	Ten Thousand Children by Anne L. Fox and Eva Abraham-Podietz (Behrman House, 1999; ISBN 0874416485)
	*The Camp System* by Jane Shuter (Heinemann, 2003; ISBN 1403408092)
	*The Holocaust* by Helen Strahinich (Enslow, 1996; ISBN 08940907255)
	Viewing the Holocaust Today by Philip Brooks (Heinemann, 2003; ISBN 1430408157)

Activity Books:

Fiction:

Audio/visual:

We watched so many movies it is impossible to list them all. Those that were significant in our understanding and once that we liked are listed here:

	Frank Capra's WWII Why We Fight (4 disc series) (2005)
	World War II in Color (1999)
	*The Nazi: A Warning from History* (2 disc series) (1997) (BBC) EXCELLENT and disturbing
	*You are There: World War II Begins* (1953)
	*The War Zone: History of World War II* (2 disc series) (2004)
	*Anne Frank Remembered* (1995) (BBC) EXCELLENT
	*Battle of the Bulge* (1965) starring Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas and Robert Shaw
	*The Dirty Dozen* (1967) Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Ernest Borgnine and Donald Sutherland A film based in fiction but a great WWII film!
	*Casablanca* (1942)
	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
	*The Great Escape* (1963)
	*Patton* (1970) WARNING LANGUAGE!
	*Stalag 17* (1953)
	John Wayne war movies: *Flying Tigers* (1942), *Sands of Iwo Jima* (1949), *Flying Leathernecks* (1951), *The Longest Day* (1962) with a lot of other great names!,
	Henry Fonda war movies: *The Battle of Midway* (1942), *Midway* (1976), *Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur* (1976) (TV)--not WWII but give insight to MacArthur, *Mussolini: Ultimo attl* (1974), *In Harm's Way* (1965),
	*Band of Brothers* (2001) mini series
	*A Clockwork Orange* (1971)
	*Judgment at Nuremberg* (1961)
	*The Tuskegee Airmen* (1995)
	*Saints and Soldiers* (2003)
	*Operation Petticoat* (1959)
	*Tora, Tora, Tora* (1970) who didn't see this in their elementary school?
	*The Guns of Naverone* (1961) Gregory Peck
	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
	*Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front* (2006)
	and many, many more Just check out the data base at IMDB
	tons of specials from the History Channel and Modern Marvels

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Web sites

++++Caution, nothing has been reviewed or used, just gathered and held here for future use++++

	World War II from History Central
	World War II worksheets from history on the net
	The Great Depression and WWII from America's Story

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Projects

We had our grandmother (my mother) come and talk about her experience as a young girl in the war. She lived near an Air Force base near the Pacific Coast as well as had older brothers who fought in the war. It was quite the experience to say the least.

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Last update: July, 2007

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