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DID YOU KNOW?
Vellum, used before paper was economically manufactured, came from veal, the scraped hide of a calf, lamb, or goat. When they used to say you earned your sheepskin by graduating from college, they weren't kidding.

Books about World War II
as of January 28, 2012

All my WWII title links are listed in left column. Here are a few favorites:



Mila 18: A novel of the Warsaw Uprising in the Jewish ghetto, a surprise resistance that lasted for 42 days, and may have inspired survivors toward creating a Jewish state in Israel.



Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World War Two. A complete illustrated directory of German battle tanks, armoured cars, self-propelled guns, and semi-tracked vehicles 1933-1945. A thousand pictures and diagrams of Panzerkampfwagens I, II, 35(t) and 38(t), III, IV, V, and VI, with other full-track vehicles, half-tracks, armored cars, French and Italian AFVs in German service, plus captured enemy vehicles.



Four issues of LIFE Magazine 1944 and 1945. Life Magazine. May 22, 1944 (Walter Lippmann, Wendell Willkie, Allies Advance in New Guinea, War Explodes into Bombay, Airmen in the Aleutians, update on the Hatfields and McCoys). May 22, 1944 (Liberty's Light, story of Norman invasion, weeks after D-Day, Our World-Wide War, Normandy Beachhead, Americans Take Over Rome, De Gaulle, The South Seas, U.S. Foot Soldiers in Burma). February 19, 1945 (Two Weeks of RadioTokyo, U.S. Return to the Philippines, Dalai Lama (at nine years old), On to Tokyo). April 30, 1945 (Life's War Artists, 24 pages of color, President Truman's First Week).







Up Front. Bill Mauldin's gritty but oh-so-human picture of the war on the ground. His sketches from the front in World War II made the war human, and enabled people to be able to laugh in the midst of misery and hardship. His two scruffy dogfaces made sense of a world gone mad.



Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis. This is one of several Editions for the Armed Services available. They were a phenomenon of the War. The unusual oblong format grew out of an effort by publishers to help the war effort, so the story goes, by using leftover paper to print free books on cheap materials for the troops overseas. Over 1,800 titles were shipped; very scarce today. These are squarebound with a single staple. The best current literature was made available to U.S. armed services around the world.





Murder and the First Lady. Elliott Roosevelt, son of FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, published a number of detective novels with Eleanor Roosevelt as the amateur sleuth (as well as everything else she was doing). This is the first of these historically realistic novels, involving real events and famous people in Washington DC of the day; the fiction is the murder case.

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WW II THIS WEEK

LEAD UP TO WAR
Days of Wrath. Malraux
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Map Room.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the Rose Garden.
E. Roosevelt. Murder and the First Lady.
E. Roosevelt. Murder in the West Wing.
Civilization on Trial. Toynbee

PACIFIC THEATER
The Making of The Jewel in the Crown.

EUROPEAN THEATER
Leon Uris. Mila 18.
The Last 100 Days. War in Europe.
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of WW II.
Russia at War 1941-45.
The Battle for Rome.
Bill Mauldin. Up Front.
Pocket Book of the War.
American Servicemen in Britain 1942.
Powstanie Warszawskie 1944. Warsaw Uprising
Psychology for the Fighting Man.

BACKGROUND
The Story Pocket Book.
The American Legion. 1919-1989.
4 Life Magazines 1944-1945

RADIO
Arch Oboler. 14 Radio Plays.
Arch Oboler. Ivory Tower and Other
Free World Theatre. 19 New Radio Plays. Oboler/Longstreet.
Radio's Best Plays
Cooke. Just Passing Through.
How to Write for Radio.

AFTERMATH
Michener. Return to Paradise.

ARMED SERVICE EDITIONS
Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday.
Isak Dinesen. 7 Gothic Tales.
Selected Poems of John Keats.
Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt.
John Philip Sousa III. My Family Right or Wrong.
Zweig. The Royal Game.

January 28, 2012