World War II in History and Memory

HIST 293 | University Course

Causes, flow, global impact of the war emphasizing American and Japanese experience, ways in which it shaped lives of individual participants, and how it is remembered.

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Note

You will also need to watch (rent, buy, or stream) these movies: • Schindler's List • Saving Private Ryan • Letters from Iwo Jima Note: These films are rated R/Mature Audiences. If you have objections to watching R-rated movies, please contact your instructor (aaron_skabelund@byu.edu) for alternatives.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Introductions
Lesson 2: Origins
Lesson 3: Total War and Total Empire
Lesson 4: The War in Europe
Lesson 5: Shoah
Lesson 6: The War in the Pacific
Lesson 7: Gender and Connections between the Home Front and Battle Front
Lesson 8: Race on the US Home Front
Lesson 9: Operation Overlord in History and Popular Memory
Lesson 10: Empire and War
Lesson 11: Wars without Mercy
Lesson 12: The Fog of War
Lesson 13: Bringing the War to an End
Lesson 14: Aftermaths

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Textbooks

	BYU Store	Vital Source (eBook)	Amazon*	Library
“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II (Required) by: Studs Terkel ISBN: 9781565843431 1997 The New Press	Rental: $11.99 Used: $15.00 New: $19.99	Purchase from: $18.95	Used from $1.35 Collectible from $9.95 New from $8.99	Borrow
Hiroshima (Required) by: John Hersey ISBN: 9780679721031 1989 Vintage	Used: $6.75 Rental: $4.99 New: $8.95	Purchase from: $7.99	New from $12.24	Borrow
Japan at War: An Oral History (Required) by: Haruko Taya and Theodore Cook ISBN: 9781565840393 1993 New Press	Rental: $6.99 Used: $15.00 New: $19.99		New from $13.00 Used from $1.58	Borrow
The Best War Ever: America and World War II (2nd Edition) (Required) by: Michael C. Adams ISBN: 9781421416670 2015 Johns Hopkins University Press	Rental: $10.99 Used: $20.25 New: $27.00	Purchase from: $24.95		Borrow
The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook (Required) by: Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee ISBN: 9780195174427 2010 Oxford University Press	Rental: $38.99 Used: $60.00 New: $79.99	Purchase from: $79.98 Rental from: $39.99	Buy on Amazon	Borrow
The World War Two Reader (Required) by: Gordon Martel ISBN: 9780415224031 2004 Routledge	Rental: $10.99 Used: $39.75 New: $52.95		Buy on Amazon	Borrow
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. (Required) by: E. B Sledge ISBN: 9780891419198 2007 Presidio Press	Rental: $6.04 Used: $6.75 New: $8.99	Purchase from: $8.99	New from $21.99	Borrow
World War II: A New History (Required) by: Evan Mawdsley ISBN: 9780521608435 2009 Cambridge University Press			Buy on Amazon	Borrow

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Other Materials

Digital TextRequiredJapan at War: An Oral History. Digital version of text $4.50

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