Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Constructing Histories of Nuclear Mass Destruction (Zones Class)

This is an annotated collection of rare Japanese documents translated into English, which provides an invaluable resource for historians and students of World War II. The documents include diary extracts and candid, short monographs written by high-ranking Japanese officers immediately after the war.

The legacy of the Second World War has been, like the war itself, an international phenomenon. In both Europe and Asia, common questions of criminality, guilt, and collaboration have intersected with history and politics on the local level to shape the way that wartime experience has been memorialized, reinterpreted, and used.

A bio-bibliographic guide covering the lives and contributions of thirty-three journalists who endured physical discomfort and separation from their families and risked their lives to inform their fellow Americans and the rest of the world about the greatest and most destructive war in human history.

Drawing together a wide variety of primary source documents from across the United States, Europe, and Asia, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War II, the most devastating war in human history. Includes a chronological list of all major events of World War II, a bibliography of up-do-date selection of basic books, Internet sources, and movies and television series on World War II.

Highlights the different perspectives and views of all belligerents in the military arena, as well as describing the impact of the war on daily life. The book begins in 1939 (with the invasion of Poland) and ends in 1945 (with Germany's surrender). Presented with directly reported sources, together with all the contextual information, readers will be able to develop their own opinions about events such as the Munich Conference, the defeat of France, the debate over a second front, the D-Day events of 1944, the development of Soviet-American relations throughout the war and the origins of the Cold War.

An edited volume of primary sources from the Second World War. Includes wide-ranging insight that includes sufficient narrative and analysis for the reader to grasp both the war's broad outlines and the context and significance of each particular source.

The documents in this book point readers to the major themes and issues of World War II, including major causes, course, and consequences of the war. Coverage is worldwide, with attention to both the European and Pacific Theaters and to home front as well as battlefront issues. Diplomacy and strategy blend with insights into the lives of ordinary people around the world - as factory workers, soldiers, mothers, propagandists, political leaders, and survivors.