Ms. Lyon & Mr. Splawn | Modern World: World War I and World War II: Recommended Resources

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"World War 1914-1918"

"World War, 1939-1945"

Aerial Operations

Aircraft and Aces

Harlem Hellfighters (369th Infantry Regiment)

Plastic Surgery 

Trench Warfare

Weapon Technology

Women

African American Women

War Criminals and Nazis and United States

Primary Sources:

Arthur, Max and Imperial War Museum (Great Britain). Forgotten Voices of the Great War: A History of World War I in the Words of the Men and Women Who Were There. Guilford, CT: Lyons Press, 2004. 

Neiberg, Michael S. The World War I Reader: Primary and Secondary Sources. New York: New York University Press, 2007. 

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Harlem Hellfighters:

Slotkin, Richard. Lost Battalions: The Great War and The Crisis of American Nationality. New York, NY: H. Holt, 2005.

Williams, Chad L. Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=605945

War Criminals Nazi Officers & War Crimes:

Levinson, Sanford. “Responsibility for Crimes of War.” Philosophy & Public Affairs 2, no. 3 (1973): 244–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2264912.

Rojansky, Matt. “Obstruction and Delay: The Hunt for Nazi War Criminals.” Harvard International Review 22, no. 4 (2001): 34–37. http://www.jstor.org/stable/42764071.

Rosenbaum, Basia. "70 Years since Nuremberg, the Search for Nazis Continues: An Interview with Efraim Zuroff." Harvard International Review 36, no. 4 (Summer, 2015): 49-51. https://berkshireschool.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/central/scholarly-journals/70-years-since-nuremberg-search-nazis-continues/docview/1765856039/sem-2?accountid=8583.

Stephen Tyas. "Smoke and Mirrors: The German Foreign Intelligence Service's Release of Names of Former Nazi Employees," Holocaust and Genocide Studies 25, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 290-299. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.journals/hologen25&i=296.

Plastic Surgery:

Fitzharris, Lindsey. The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Reid, Fiona. Medicine in First World War Europe : Soldiers, Medics, Pacifists. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017. Accessed October 5, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=4812157

Trench Warfare:

Yorke, Trevor. The Trench: Life and Death on the Western Front 1914-1918. Berks: Countryside Books, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=3121037

Use of Aircraft and Flying Aces:

Murray, Williamson. War in the Air, 1914-45. London: Cassell, 1999. 

Hart, Peter. Aces Falling: War Above the Trenches, 1918. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. 

S. Leach, Norman. Cavalry of the Air: An Illustrated Introduction to the Aircraft and Aces of the First World War. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2014. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=5104513

Weapon Technology:

Chivers, C J. The Gun. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010.

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2016.

Tucker, Jonathan B. War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to al-Qaeda. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. 

Spiers, Edward M. A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons. London: Reaktion Books, Limited, 2010. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=618774

Coleman, K. A History of Chemical Warfare. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=257360

Women:

Moore, Kate. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, 2016. 

Braybon, Gail. Women Workers in the First World War. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. Accessed November 2, 2021. ProQuest Ebook Central. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/berkshireschool/reader.action?docID=1101376

Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. University Press of Colorado, 1997. Accessed November 2, 2021. Ebsco EBook Academic Collection. https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=16083676-0370-3ac5-88da-5096f48989d9.