MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

    

 

History 3071/5071                         Fall, 2007
World War II                                 Mr. Bowling

Books:

Douglas Porch, The Path to Victory;
   The Mediterranean Theater in
   World War II (New York, 2004).
Erhard Raus, Panzer Operations; the
   Eastern Front Memoir of General
   Raus, 1941-1945 (New York,
   2003).
Norman Davies, Rising '44; The
   Battle for Warsaw (New York,
   2004).
Shlomo Aronson, Hitler, the Allies, &
   the Jews (Cambridge, 2004).
Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper,
   Forgotten Armies; The Fall of
   British Asia, 1941-1945 (New
   York, 2005).
Gregor Dallas, 1945: The War that
   Never Ended (New Haven, 2005).
Krisztian Ungvary, The Siege of
   Budapest; One Hundred Days in
   World War II (New Haven, 2005).
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the
   Enemy; Stalin, Truman, & the
   Surrender of Japan (Cambridge,
   Mass., 2005).


Requirements:

    1.  Attendance.
    2.  Participation.
    3.  Readings.
    4.  Successful completion of two examinations.
    5.  A critical paper, c. 15-20 pp. for undergraduates
        (c. 25-30 pp. for graduate students), a complete,
         typewritten draft of which is due on Nov. 12th .

Schedule:

Aug. 27         Introduction: How & Why World War II Began

Sept. 3           L A B O R   D A Y
                   
Sept. 10-17   The Mediterranean in World War II
                            Porch

 Sept. 24        The Eastern Front as seen by a German
                            Raus

Oct. 1             Resistance in Poland, I
                            Davies (lst half)

Oct. 8            C O L U M B U S   D A Y
                         
Oct. 9            Resistance in Poland, II
                            Davies (2nd half)                           

Oct. 15       M I D T E R M   E X A M I N A T I ON 

Oct. 22          The Holocaust
                            Aronson

Oct. 29-         The East Asian/Pacific Theater
   Nov. 5              Bayly & Harper

Nov. 12-         The End in Europe & its Consequences
   19                      Dallas

                            Complete, typewritten draft of
                      term paper is due Nov. 19th. 

Nov. 26          The Fate of Budapest
                            Ungvary

 Dec. 3            Things End in the Pacific
                            Hasegawa

                

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