The History Buff's Guide to World War II (62 page)

29
. David Smurthwaite,
The Pacific War Atlas, 1941–1945
(New York: Facts on File, 1995), 24–25.

30
. November 27, 1941 War Department communiqué from Gen. Walter Short’s Papers, Hoover Institute Archives, Stanford University.

31
. Warnings of attacks on Guam and Philippines came from several U.S. War Department sources, principally the November 24, 1941, message from Assistant Chief of Naval Operations Rear Adm. Royal Ingersoll (National Archives Record Group 80, Pearl Harbor Liaison Office, Modern Military Records Branch, Archives II). Atlanta Constitution writer Jack Tarver quoted in Gordon W. Prange,
At Dawn We Slept
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981), 694–95. Several books and articles contend FDR purposely lured the United States into war with Japan, few of which offer consistent or convincing arguments. Chief among these are Charles A. Beard,
President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1948); Robert B. Stinnett,
Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
(New York: Free Press, 2000); Vice Adm. Homer N. Wallin,
Pearl Harbor
(Washington D.C.: Naval History Division, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1968).

32
. See Talbot Charles Imlay, “A Reassessment of Anglo-French Strategy During the Phony War, 1939–1940,”
The English Historical Review
(April 2004): 359, 369; Vivian Rowe,
The Great Wall of France
(New York: Putnam, 1961).

33
. William Carr,
Poland to Pearl Harbor
(Baltimore: Edward Arnold, 1985), 67.

34
. William J. Fanning Jr., “The Origin of the Term ‘Blitzkrieg’: Another View,”
Journal of Military History
(April 1997): 283–302.

35
. Jeffrey Ethell and Alfred Price,
World War II Fighting Jets
(Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1994), 9–13.

36
. Robert Jackson,
Fighter: The Story of Air Combat, 1936–1945
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979), 147–57; Williamson Murray,
Strategy for Defeat: The Luftwaffe, 1933–1945
(Maxwell, AL: Air University Press, 1983), 252–53. The four jets that flew in operations were the Me-262, He-162, Arado 234, and British Gloster Meteor, which was employed mostly as a V-1 interceptor; see Ethell and Price,
World War II Fighting Jets
, 204.

37
. Hitler quoted in Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
, 368.

38
. Winston S. Churchill,
Triumph and Tragedy
(New York: Bantam Books, 1953), 42–45; Alfred W. Crosby,
Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 163–65; Michael J. Neufeld,
The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era
(New York: Free Press, 1995), 273–74.

39
. Neufeld,
The Rocket and the Reich
, 274; Speer,
Inside the Third Reich
, 355–56.

40
. The accepted estimate for Jewish victims is 6 million, although the acclaimed authority on the matter, Raul Hilberg, estimates the number to be closer to 5.1 million. See Hilberg,
The Destruction of the European Jews
(New York: Holmes & Meier, 1985).

41
. Richard C. Lukas, “The Polish Experience During the Holocaust,” in
A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis
, ed. Michael Berenbaum (New York: New York University Press, 1990), 88. Edward T. Linenthal,
Preserving Memory
(New York: Viking, 1995), 240; Wolfgang Sofsky,
The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 119–21.

42
. See Wolfgang Benz,
The Holocaust
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1999); Bodo von Borries, “The Third Reich in German History Textbooks Since 1945,”
Journal of Contemporary History
(January 2003); Noam Lupu, “Memory Vanished, Absent, and Confined: The Countermemorial Project in 1980’s and 1990’s Germany,”
History and Memory
(Fall–Winter 2003).

43
. For a detailed chronology of Japan’s switch from aggressive defense to capitulation, see Herbert Feis,
Japan Subdued: The Atomic Bomb and the End of the War in the Pacific
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961). For a balanced historiography of the use of the atomic devices, both for and against, see J. Samuel Walker,
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).

44
. Robert P. Newman,
Truman and the Hiroshima Cult
(East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995), 2–7; John Toland,
The Rising Sun
(New York: Random House, 1970), 830; Gerald Astor,
Operation Iceberg
(New York: Dell, 1995), 508.

45
. Michael Hogan, ed.,
Hiroshima in History and Memory
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 60. War Minister Anami quoted in Robert James Maddox,
Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995), 148.

46
. Richard B. Frank,
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
(New York: Random House, 1999), 316–20. Several major works contend the atomic bombs were unnecessary for the defeat of Japan. Most argue a Japanese surrender was imminent. Others hypothesize an invasion of the main islands would have been much less costly than projected. See Gar Alperovitz,
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth
(New York: Knopf, 1995); Kai Bird and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds.,
Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy
(Stony Creek, CT: The Pamphleteer’s Press, 1998); Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell,
Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial
(New York: Putnam, 1995).

47
. Alan J. Levine,
The Pacific War: Japan Versus the Allies
(Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995), 166.

48
. Mark A. Stoler, “The Second World War in U.S. History and Memory,”
Diplomatic History
(Summer 2001): 389–92. Truman quoted in McCullough,
Truman
, 458.

49
. Patton quoted in Martin Blumenson,
The Patton Papers, 1940–1945
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957) 698.

50
. Walter LeFeber,
America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945–1971
(New York: Wiley, 1972), 1–2. Stalin quoted in McCullough,
Truman
, 445.

51
. A. W. DePorte,
Europe Between the Superpowers
(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979), 97; Donald E. Shepardson, “The Fall of Berlin and the Rise of a Myth,”
Journal of Military History
(January 1998): 139–41.

52
. See also John T. Bookman and Stephen T. Powers,
The March to Victory
(Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1994); Stephen T. Powers, “World War II Battlefields and Museums,” in
World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources
, ed. Loyd E. Lee (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997); Chuck Thompson,
The 25 Best World War Two Sites: European Theater
(San Francisco: Greenline Publications, 2004); Chuck Thompson,
The 25 Best World War Two Sites: Pacific Theater
(San Francisco: Greenline Publications, 2002);
www.warmuseums.nl
;
www.afterthebattle.com
.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

NEWSPAPERS

Century Sentinel

Des Moines Register

Die Zeit

London Times

New York Times

Omaha World Herald

Pravda

Stars and Stripes

Yank

PERIODICALS

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Atlantic Monthly

Cultures

Current History

Diplomatic History

The Economist

English Historical Review

German History

History and Memory

Journal of Asian History

Journal of Asian Studies

Journal of Contemporary History

Journal of Economic History

Journal of Military History

Journal of Modern History

Minerva Modern Asian Studies

The Nation (UK)

Der Spiegel

Time (US)

Twentieth-Century China

War and Society

War in History

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Ambrose, Stephen E.
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Ancell, R. Manning.
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Armstrong, John A., ed.
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Arnold, Ben.
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Astor, Gerald.
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Axell, Albert.
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———
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Bacon, Edwin.
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Bailey, Ronald H.
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———. Stalingrad. New York: Viking, 1998.

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Blair, Clay.
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Blumenson, Martin.
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