Courses are offered in a selection of flavors with the basics of writing taught using information and literature organized around a topic or issue. This is one of a set of useful web links related to the general theme of this section of the course. A chronology of events from 1941-1946 is provided to add perspective.
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The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw -- Black Rain and the Bombing of Hiroshima -- World War II Films : Feature Releases -- World War II Films: Documentaries -- World War II Memoirs and Memorial Foundations -- Other Resources
The Greatest Generation by Tom Brokaw
- Chapter One: The Greatest Generation: New York Times, Books -- excerpt online
- CNN.com: Book News: Tom Brokaw: The Greatest Generation
- New York Times Book Review -- online review
- Random House: Brokaw: The Greatest Generation
Black Rain and the Bombing of Hiroshima
- Masuji Ibuse -- author of novel, Black Rain, upon which film is based
- New York Times: Review: Black Rain
General History : The Bombing of Hiroshima
- A-Bomb WWW Museum
- The Atomic Bomb: Decision: Documents on the Decision to Use Atomic Bombs on the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ACCC) : Radiation Effects Research Foundation
- Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy -- opposition parties to the Smithsonian exhibit
- Devotion to the Cause of Peace -- atomic bombing website produced by city of Hiroshima
- The Enola Gay Archive: Air Force Association -- official military documents and press releases about exhibit
- The Enola Gay: Brig. General Paul W. Tibbetts, USAF Retired -- official site for bombing details
World War II Films : Feature Releases
- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
- Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Das Boot (1981)
- Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
- Empire of the Sun
- Europa, Europa (1990)
- From Here to Eternity (1953)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- Hope and Glory (1987)
- Life is Beautiful (La Vita`e bella) (1997)
- The Longest Day (1962)
- Patton (1970)
- The Pawnbroker (1964)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- Tin Drum (1979)
World War II Films : Documentaries
- Anne Frank Remembered
- Children of the Camps -- traces history of six victims of the Japanese-American internment camps
- Decoding Nazi Secrets -- PBS series detailing the cracking of the Enigma machine
- The Last Days -- Oscar-winning documentary from the Shoah Foundation
- Memory of the Camps : Frontline -- actual footage of 1945 camp liberations, first broadcast in 1985 on PBS
- Rabbit in the Moon : Internment of Japanese Americans in World War II
- Trinity and Beyond : The Atomic Bomb -- classic film on history of nuclear weapon testing and development from 1945-1963
- The Valour and the Horror: Canada at War
- We Served with Pride: The Chinese American Experience in World War II
World War II Memoirs and Memorial Foundations
- Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oswiecim, Poland) -- photographs by Alan Jacobs
- National D-Day Memorial Foundation
- Pearl Harbor Memorial: USS Arizona
- USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education -- dedicated to archiving Holocaust survivor life-stories
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- WASP--WWII Homepage -- Women AirForce Service Pilots(WASPs), the first women to fly American military aircraft
- Yad Vashem : The Holocaust Martyr's and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
- Yahoo: World War II : Personal Accounts
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