Listed in: History, as HIST-101
Formerly listed as: HIST-24
Mark R. Jacobson (Section 01)
[C] This course will explore World War II in global perspective. Historians of Europe, Japan, and the United States will join together to teach the history of the world’s most destructive war. Topics include the rise of militant regimes in Germany and Japan; German and Japanese aggression in the 1930s; the attack on Pearl Harbor; famous battles of the war; the Holocaust; German and Japanese occupation practices; civilian life in the Allied and Axis countries; and the later memory of the war. The course will also address moral controversies raised by the war, including the Anglo-American firebombing of Germany and the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Texts for the course will include film, memoirs, government documents, graphic and other novels, and secondary accounts of the war. Two class meetings per week.
Fall semester. John J. McCloy Visiting Professor Jacobson.
Section 01
Tu 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM CHAP 201
Th 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM CHAP 201
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Second World War | New York: Viking, 1990 | Keegan, John | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland | New York: Harper Perennial, 1998 | Browning, Christopher R. | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands | London: Serif, 1999 | Lotnik, Waldemar | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War | Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001 | Reynolds, David | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths | Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly, 2011 | Mizuki, Shigeru | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinaw | New York: Oxford University Press, 1990 | Sledge, E.B. | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.