WORLD WAR II ON THE WEB: A Guide to the Very Best Sites
J. Douglas Smith, Richard Jensen, . . SR Books, $23.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-8420-5021-0
Part of the Very Best Sites series, this reference guide rates those containing WWII primary source material. Each chapter, covering a particular subtopic (theaters, leaders, soldiers' recollections, women and African-Americans who served, the Holocaust, etc.), begins with cursory introductory material, continues with capsule site reviews and ends with a suggested reading list. Smith, who teaches at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and Jensen, professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois, emphasize America's participation, more recently produced material (possibly because it may be more readily available) and, generally, the familiar. "Unit Histories," for example, caters to the current popularity of some subject matter (such as the 506th Parachute Infantry, on which the
Reviewed on: 12/23/2002
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 224 pages - 978-0-8420-5020-3
Other - 224 pages - 978-1-4616-4742-3