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For younger readers

Allen, Thomas B. Remember Pearl Harbor: American and Japanese Survivors Tell Their Stories. National Geographic, 2001. For readers in grades 5 to 9.

Bachrach, Susan D. Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. Little, Brown, 1994. For readers in grades 5 to 9.

Gay, Kathlyn, and Martin Gay. World War II. Twenty-First Century, 1995. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

Krull, Kathleen. V Is for Victory: America Remembers World War II. Knopf, 1995, 2002. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

O'Neill, William L. World War II: A Student Companion. Oxford University Press, 1999. Alphabetical entries cover all fronts. For readers in grades 6 and up.

Holocaust

Bauer, Yehuda. Rethinking the Holocaust. Yale University Press, 2001. A synthesis and analysis of explanations of the Holocaust, by the director of the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Jerusalem.

Breitman, Richard. The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution. Knopf, 1991. Argues that Himmler shared responsibility for the Holocaust with Hitler, and that the former was instrumental in translating the dictator's anti-Semitism into wholesale slaughter.

Breitman, Richard. Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned; What the British and Americans Knew. Hill & Wang, 1998. Compelling evidence that the Western powers could have saved Jewish lives.

Frank, Anne. Trans. B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. The Diary of a Young Girl. Doubleday, 1996. Originally published in 1952, this moving journal of a young girl describes hiding from the Germans in occupied Holland. A classic.

Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. University of North Carolina Press, 1995. Explores in chilling detail the Nazi program of systematic destruction of Jews, Roma, and people with disabilities.

Gutman, Israel. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. Macmillan, 1990. An exhaustive and detailed account of the extermination of 6 million Jews.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. Holmes & Meier, 1985. An important, classic work.

Laqueur, Walter, ed. The Holocaust Encyclopedia. Yale University Press, 2001. Comprehensive single-volume reference work.

Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved. Random House, 1989. A moving account from an Italian Jew who survived the Holocaust.

Marrus, Michael. The Holocaust in History. University Press of New England, 1987. An analysis of important themes surrounding Holocaust scholarship.

Niewyk, Donald, and Francis R. Nicosia. The Columbia Reference Guide to the Holocaust. Columbia University Press, 2000. Divided into five sections: history, problems and interpretation, chronology, encyclopedia, and resources.

Paldier, Mordecai. Sheltering the Jews: Stories of Holocaust Rescuers. Fortress, 1996. A chronicle of the daring acts of those who sheltered the Jews from the Nazis.

Rhodes, Richard. Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. Knopf, 2002. Traces the development of the notion of extermination camps from the mass murder of Jews by Heinrich Himmler's special task forces, the SS-Einsatzgruppen.

Shermer, Michael, and Alex Grobman. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and why Do They Say It? University of California Press, 2000. Two historians examine the motives of those who deny the Holocaust and refute the claims made in the denial.

Wyman, David S., and Charles H. Rosenzvieg, eds. The World Reacts to the Holocaust. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. A country by country summary of attitudes toward Jews and treatment of them during the Holocaust.

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World War II

Bischof, Werner. After the War. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997. A photojournalist's journey across Europe in the war's aftermath.

Dear, I. C. B., and M. R. D. Foot, eds. The Oxford Companion to World War II. Oxford University Press, 1995, 2001. A compendium of facts and figures relevant to World War II.

Dunnigan, James F. Dirty Little Secrets of World War II. Morrow, 1994, 1998. An illuminating exposé of military information pertaining to the war that, for propaganda purposes, was kept from the public.

Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking/Penguin, 1990. A lively narrative by a military historian.

Murray, Williamson, and Allan R. Millett. A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Harvard University Press, 2000. A single-volume rendering of the conflict.

Overy, R. J. Why the Allies Won. Norton, 1996. An exploration and analysis of reasons for the Allied victory over the Axis powers.

Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor. Viking, 2002. An account based on extensive interviews with both Japanese and American participants.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994. Political and strategic history of World War II.

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