Timeline - Overview

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intro - first time war had such an impact on civilians in all walks of life - bombing of Buckingham palace and Queen Mother's response inc children - common trope in literature is the effect on children

first to have such a devastating effect on ...

also, perhaps the last war to have a clear and known enemy - revelations of the holocaust after the war, the shock and horror

 

Chronicle in Stone

 

The Combatants: A Literary Analysis of Martha Gellhorn's A Stricken Field, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, James Jones' From Here to Eternity, Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, and the poems of Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, and Randall Jarrell
The Home Front: A Literary Analysis of Bette Green's Summer of My German Soldier and David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars
Occupation, Resistance, and Espionage: A Literary Analysis of John Steinbeck's The Moon is Down, Jack Higgins' The Eagle Has Landed, and Paul West's The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg and Rat Man of Paris
The Holocaust: A Literary Analysis of William Styron's Sophie's Choice and Elie Wiesel's Night
The Nuclear Bomb: A Literary Analysis of John Hersey's Hiroshima
Index

 

Gravity's Rainbow

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Heroes

children's perspective - loss of innocence - evacuation,

invasion/resistance

Blitz

WW2 in children's literature: When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (1971), Carrie's War (1973), The Machine Gunners (1975), Goodnight Mister Tom (1981), Going Solo (1986), Kensuke's Kingdom (1999), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), The Book Thief (2007),

WW2 in YA fiction: Diary of Anne Frank (1947), The Shouting Wind (1995), Heroes (1998), Sisterland (2003)

WW2 in Asia and the Pacific: A Town Like Alice (1950) Grave of the Fireflies (1967) A Pale View of Hills (1982) Empire of the Sun (1984), Wild Swans (1991), Memoirs of a Geisha (1997), Kensuke's Kingdom (1999) ,

WW2 in Germany: Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), The Reader (1995), The Book Thief (2007)

Holocaust: Man's Search for Meaning (1946), If this is a Man (1947), Diary of Anne Frank (1947), W, or the Memory of Childhood (1975), Sophie's Choice (1979), Schindler's Ark (1993), The Reader (1995),The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas(2006) , The Kindly Ones (2006),

WW2 in Europe: The Moon is Down (1942), Catch-22 (1961), Black Dogs (1992), The English Patient (1992), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (1993) -love, , Charlotte Gray (1999), Suite Francaise (1942/2004), The Siege - good for redemptive love? (2002)

 

in England: Pastoral (1944),Brideshead Revisited (1945), The End of the Affair (1951),Carrie's War (1973),The Machine Gunners (1975), Goodnight Mister Tom (1981), Atonement (2001), Tommy Glover's Stretch of Heaven (2005), Night Watch (2006)The Outcast (2008), The Very Thought of You (2010)

WW2 in US: The Plot Against America (2004), Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), Flags of Our Fathers (2000), Last Days of Summer (1998),

Soldiers: , From Here to Eternity (1952), Guns of Navarone (1957), The Naked and the Dead (1948), Tales of the South Pacific (1946), The Thin Red Line (1962),

Sailors: The Good Shepherd (1955), The Cruel Sea (1951)

 

The Rise of Nazism - Diary of Anne Frank, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Address Unknown

Civilians

 

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WWII in children's literature

WWII in young adult fiction

Depictions of the Holocaust

 

WWII in England

 

WWII in Europe

 

WWII in Germany

WWII in Asia and the Pacific