MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE

    

 

History 3071/5071                         Fall, 2003

World War II                                 Mr. Bowling

Books:

J. F. Kaufmann & H. W. Kaufmann, Hitler's Blitzkrieg
    Campaigns;  The Invasion & Defense of Western
    Europe, 1939-1940 (New York, 1999).

Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr., Rommel’s Greatest Victory; The
    Desert Fox & the Fall of Tobruk, Spring, 1942 (Novato,
    Cal., 1998).

Joel S. A. Hayward, Stopped at Stalingrad; The Luftwaffe
    & Hitler's Defeat in the East, 1942-1943 (Lawrence,
    1998).

David E. Johnson, Fast Tanks & Heavy Bombers;
      Innovation in the U. S. Army, 1917-1945
    (Ithaca, 1998).

Harry A. Gailey, Bouganville, 1943-1945; The Forgotten

        Campaign (Lexington, Ky., 1991).

Amir Weiner, Making Sense of War; The Second World
    War & the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution
    (Princeton, 2000).

Robin Cross, The Battle of Kursk; Operation Citadel,
    1943 (New York, 1993).

Molly Merryman, Clipped Wings; The Rise & Fall of the
    Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World
    War II  (New York, 1968).

Adrian R. Lewis, Omaha Beach; A Flawed Victory
    (Chapel Hill, 2001).

Ronald Takaki, Double Victory; A Multicultural History

     of America in World War II (Boston, 2000).

Howard Blum, The Brigade; An Epic Story of Vengeance,
    Salvation, and World War II (New York, 2001).

Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945 (New York, 2003).

Richard B. Frank, Downfall; The End of the Imperial
    Japanese Empire (New York, 1999).

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. 11^th.

Schedule:

 

Sept. 2           Introduction: “The Big One”

 

Sept. 9           Blitzkrieg & After, 1939-40
                            Kaufmann

Sept. 16         The Desert Fox

                            Mitcham

Sept. 23         The Road to Stalingrad

                            Hayward

Sept. 30         Military Science: Weapons Research
                            and Application

                            Johnson

Oct. 7             In the South Pacific: A Case Study

                            Gailey

Oct. 14    M I D T E R M   E X A M I N A T I ON

 

Oct. 21           The Effect of the War in Russia
                                           Weiner

Oct. 28           What Happened at Kursk

                            Cross

Nov. 4            The WASP Story

                            Merryman

Nov. 11          Trouble at D-Day
                            Lewis

                            Complete, typewritten draft of
                    term paper is due today, Nov.
                    11th.

 

Nov. 18          World War II At Home in America
                            Takaki

 

Nov. 25          The Story of the Jewish Brigade
                            Blum

 

Dec. 2           Things End in Berlin

                            Beevor

 

Dec. 9           Things End in the Pacific
                             Frank

 

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