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World War II - Circulating Books

This is just a sampling of books that you can check out from the STCC library on World War II. There are also books on particular groups of Americans, such as African Americans (for example, Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WWII), Japanese Americans (Voices from the Camps: Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II) and women (for example A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II).

No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The home front in World War II
Call Number: E807.G66 1994
Also available as an audio book. Use the same call number in the audiobook section of the library.
An intimate history of killing : face-to-face killing in twentieth-century warfare
Call Number: U22.3.B68 1999
Never will we forget : oral histories of World War II
Call Number: D811.A2.C85 2008
Armageddon in retrospect, and other new and unpublished writings on war and peace
Call Number: PS3572.O5.A85 2008
Also available as an audiobook. Use the same call number in the audiobook section of the library.
The War: An Intimate History
Call Number: D769.W345 2007
Also available as a DVD. Visit the same call number in the DVD section of the library.
The greatest generation
Call Number: D811.A2 B746 1998
Since you went away : World War II letters from American women on the home front by edited by Judy Barrett Litoff, David C. Smith.
Call Number: D810.W7.S54 1991
Tuskegee Airmen
Call Number: UG834.A37.T964 2004 AV
Publication Date: 2003
Look for this in our DVD section
World War II-- hometown and home front heroes : life-experience stories from the Carolinas' Piedmont by edited by Margaret G. Bigger
Call Number: D811.A2.W6185 2003

More Books!

Growing up in World War II, 1941-1945 by Judith Pinkerton Josephson.
Call Number: D810.C4.J67 2003 Juvenile
ISBN: 0822506602
Recounts the experiences of a typical childhood during World War II, including work, play, and education, emphasizing what it was like to live through the war years.
Home front U.S.A. : America during World War II by Allan M. Winkler.
Call Number: E806.W55 2000
ISBN: 0882959832
There are sections on mobilization and the workforce, American society at war, and specific groups of people such as women, African Americans and Japanese Americans.