World War II Affected Groups Project: Books

In these pages, readers will meet courageous women and girls who risked their lives through their involvement in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.

Through narrative nonfiction text, readers learn about numerous roles of women during the war, including as spies, army nurses, factory workers, and pilots.

Sherman, J. (2016). Eyewitness to the role of women in World War II. Mankato, MN: The Childs World.

This volume comprehensively discusses the decisions made, battles fought, lives affected, and subsequent results of the war that defined the twentieth century.

ThiS book gives an account of the effect of American policy during World War II on Japanese-Americans in California. Their internment in prison camps is described through interviews with the survivors and their children.

This social history focuses on the role American women played in the workforce during World War II. It describes the huge mobilization of labour necessary to supply US armed forces with machinery and weapons, and the evolution of women's roles in industry as a result of this.

World War II presents a unique blend of perspectives about what it felt like to be an American during the Second World War and the years that immediately preceded and followed it. This work examines how Americans faced the events and circumstances that shaped their lives during this difficult period.

This landmark encyclopedia covers the entire scope of the Second World War, from its earliest roots to its continuing impact on global politics and human society.

Among the many topics included are the incarceration of Japanese Americans and the decision to drop the atomic bomb.

Chronicles the final years of World War II, the war's aftermath, and its legacy, including new technologies and tactics and the Cold War; and contains a bibliography, a list of websites, Allied and Axis army organization charts.

In one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history, 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II were forcibly evacuated from their homes and sent to government camps.

After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that forced more than 120,000 Japanese Americans into primitive camps for the rest of war. Their only crime: looking like the enemy. In Infamy, acclaimed historian Richard Reeves delivers a sweeping narrative of this atrocity. Men we usually consider heroes--FDR, Earl Warren, Edward R. Murrow--were in this case villains. .

While Americans fought for freedom and democracy abroad, fear and suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Culling information from extensive, previously unpublished interviews and oral histories with Japanese American survivors of internment camps, Martin W. Sandler gives an in-depth account of their lives before, during their imprisonment, and after their release.

Revealing the real words of actual inhabitants of the past, they invite readers to interpret the "evidence" for themselves.

This title examines the African-American pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen, focusing on their training, their impressive performance in the skies over Europe, and the discrimination they faced.