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World War II

Asai, Rieko, “Semegiau Hiroshima no kioku” (Contesting memories of Hiroshima), Rikkyo Amerika Stadîzu (Tokyo), 26 (2004), 111–28. In Japanese.

Dorn, Charles, “Promoting the ‘Public Welfare’ in Wartime: Stanford University during World War II,” American Journal of Education, 112 (Nov. 2005), 103–28.

Fujita-Rony, Thomas, “Arizona and Japanese American History: The World War II Colorado River Relocation Center,” Journal of the Southwest, 47 (Summer 2005), 209–32.

Greiner, Bernd, “The Spirit of St. Louis: Mobilizing American Politics and Society, 1937–1945,” in A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937–1945, by Roger Chickering, Stig Förster, and Bernd Greiner, 245–61. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 392 pp. $65.00, isbn 0-521-83432-5.)

Grubbs, Jim, “Women Broadcasters of World War II,” Journal of Radio Studies, 11 (June 2004), 40–54.

Hodson, Christopher Z., “Invisible Man and African American Radicalism in World War II,” African American Review, 39 (Sept. 2005), 355–76.

Marsh, Melissa A., “‘Still the Old Marlene’: Hollywood at the Fort Robinson Prisoner of War Camp,” Nebraska History, 86 (Summer–Fall 2005), 46–61. Heavily illustrated.

Parascandola, John, “The Pharmacist and vd Control in World War II America,” Pharmacy in History, 47 (no. 2, 2005), 62–68.

Spiller, James, “This Is War! Network Radio and World War II Propaganda in America,” Journal of Radio Studies, 11 (June 2004), 55–72.

Weinstein, Raymond M., “Occupation G.I. Blues: Postwar Germany during and after Elvis Presley’s Tour,” Journal of Popular Culture, 39 (Feb. 2006), 126–49.

 

Chacho, Tania M., “The Influence of Ideology: Soldier Motivation and American Combat Infantrymen in the European Theater of Operations during the Second World War” (Johns Hopkins University, 2005). Order No. DA3172744.

Ehlers, Robert S., Jr., “bda: Anglo-American Air Intelligence, Bomb Damage Assessment, and the Bombing Campaigns against Germany, 1914–1945” (Ohio State University, 2005). Order No. DA3176380.

Horiuchi, Carol Lynne, “Dislocations and Relocations: The Built Environments of Japanese American Internment” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Order No. DA3174374.

Willey, Kristin Raphaële, “The Cultural Formulation of National Security Policy in the United States and Japan” (University of Minnesota, 2005). Order No. DA3172862.

 

Craddock, John, First Shot: The Untold Story of the Japanese Minisubs That Attacked Pearl Harbor. (Boston: McGraw Hill, 2005. 255 pp. $24.95, isbn 0-07-143716-9.)

Gerhardt, Uta, Soziologie der Stunde Null. Zur Gesellschaftskonzeption des amerikanischen Besatzungsregimes in Deutschland, 1944–1945/1946 (Sociology of the “hour zero”: The social conception of the American occupational regime in Germany, 1944–1945/1946). (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005. 456 pp. Paper, €16.00, isbn 3-518-29368-0.) In German.

Higham, Robin, and Stephen J. Harris, eds., Why Air Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006. viii, 382 pp. $39.95, isbn 0-8131-2374-7.)

Hosoya, Chiohiro, Akira Irie, and Ryo Oshiba, eds., Kioku to shite no paru haba (Pearl Harbor as memory). (Kyoto: Mineruva Shobo, 2004. 536 pp. ¥5,000, isbn 4623039161.) In Japanese.

 

Arn, Edward C., Arn’s War: Memoirs of a World War II Infantryman, 1940–1946, ed. Jerome Mushkat. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2006. xviii, 270 pp. Cloth, $32.95, isbn 1-931968-25-X. Paper, $19.95, isbn 1-931968-32-2.)

Korman, Gerd, Nightmare’s Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee’s Home Fronts, 1938–1948. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. x, 186 pp. $19.95, isbn 0-299-21080-4.)

Novak, Thaddeus D., Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942, ed. P. J. Capelotti. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xxii, 205 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-8130-2912-0.)

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