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WORLD WAR TWO STUDIES ASSOCIATION (formerly American Committee on the History ofthe Second World War) Donald S. Detwiler, Chairman Department of History Mark P. Parillo, Seerelary and Southern Illinois University News/eller Edilar at Carbondale Department of History Carbondale. Illinois 62901-4519 208 Eisenhower Hall detwi/[email protected] Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66506-1002 Permanent Directors 785-532-0374 NEWSLETTER FAX 785-532-7004 Charles F. Delzell [email protected] Vanderbilt University ISSN 0885-5668 James Ehrman, Associale Anhur L. Funk Editor and Webmasler University of Florida Departmem of History 208 Eisenhower Hall Terms expiring 2002 Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 66506-1002 Dean C. Allard Naval Historical Cemer Archives: No. 67 Spring 2002 Institute for Military History and Stephen E. Ambrose 20" Cemury Studies Ulliversity of New Orleans 221 Eisenhower Hall Kansas State University Edward J. Drea Manhattan, Kansas 66506-1002 Depanment of Defense The WWTSA is affiliated with: David Kahn Great Neck. New York American Historical Association 'Contents 400 A Street, S.E. Carol M. Petillo Washington, D.C. 20003 Boston College http://www.theaha.org Ronald H. Spector Comite International d'Histoire George Washington University de la Deuxi':me Guerre Mondiale World War Two Studies Association Institut d'Histoire du Temps Presem Raben Wolfe (Centre Ilational de la recherche National Archives .scientifique [CNRS]) General Information 2 Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan Earl Ziemke 61, avenue du President Wilson University of Georgia The Newsletter 2 94235 Caehan Cede", France Terms expiring 2001 Inslitule for Military History and 2(/' Century Studies. at Carl Boyd News and Notes Kansas Stale University which support! Old Dominion University the WWTSA's website on the Inernet at the following address (URL): James L. Collins, Jr. Annual Business Meeting Report 3 www.ksu.edu/history/institute/wwtsa / Middleburg, Virginia WWTSA Web Site Update 4 Roy D. Flint Valle Crucis. N.C. The German History of World War II (Volume VI) 6 Robin Higham Kansas State University A Review Essay by Donald Detwiler Warren F. Kimball Rutgers University. Newark Recently Published Books in English on World War II 39 Richard H. KolUl University ofNonh Carolina Selected Titles from an Electronic Compilation by James Ehrman at Chapel Hill Allan R. Millett Ohio State University Russell F. Weigley Temple University Terms expiriflg 2004 Martin Blwnenson Washington. D.C. D'Ann Campbell Sage Colleges Raben Dallek University of Califonlia, Los Angeles Stanley L. Falk Alexandria. Virginia Ernest R. May Harvard University Dennis Showa Iter Colorado College Mark A. Stoler UniversityofVerrnont Gerhard L. Weinberg University ofNonh Carolina at Chapel Hill [ General Information Established in 1967 "to promote historical research in the period of World War II in all its aspects," the World War Two Studies Association, whose original name was the American Committee on the History of the Second World War, is a private organization supported by the dues and donations of its members. It is affiliated with the American Historical Association, with the International Committee for the History of the Second World War, and with corresponding national committees in other countries, including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech RepUblic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the Vatican. The Newsletter The WWTSA issues a semiannual newsletter, which is assigned International Standard Serial Number [ISSN] 0885-5668 by the Library of Congress. Back issues of the Newsletter are available from Kansas State University Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies, 221 Eisenhower Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-1002. Please send information for the Newsletter to: Mark Parillo Department of History Kansas State University Tel.: (785) 532-0374 Eisenhower Hall Fax: (785) 532-7004 Manhattan, KS 66506-1002 E-mail: [email protected] Annual Membership Dues Membership is open to all who are interested in the era of the Second World War. Annual membership dues of $15.00 are payable at the beginning of each calendar year. Students with U.S. addresses may, if their circumstances require it, pay annual dues of $5.00 for up to six years. There is no surcharge for members abroad, but it is requested that dues be remitted directly to the secretary of the WWTSA (not through an agency or subscription service) in U.S. dollars. The Newsletter, which is mailed at bulk rates within the United States, will be sent by surface mail to foreign addresses unless special arrangements are made to cover the cost of airmail postage. Spring 2002 - 3 News & Notes Annual Business Meeting Report programs with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and the Combat Studies The annual business meeting of the World Institute of the U.S. Army Command and War Two Studies Association was called to General Staff College, such as the KSU order by Chairman Donald S. Detwiler at CSC cooperative Ph.D. program, symposia, 11 :50 a.m. on Saturday, April 6,2002 in the and a library cons0l1ium. The Institute is Gallery Room of the Best Western Inn on prepared to offer some supp0l1 to the World the Park in Madison, Wisconsin. War Two Studies Association, including the assumption of the suppo11 previously The first order of business was the provided by the Depa11ment of History at treasurer's report from Mark Parillo, who KSU. Such suppo11 includes continuation of rep0l1ed that the dues payments continue to the "Friends of the World War Two Studies balance expenditures for newsletter printing Association" account at the KSU and mailing and that the association thus Foundation, limited clerical assistance and remains solvent. Accordingly, it has not operating overhead, travel funds to attend been necessary to draw upon the much the WWTSA annual meeting for Institute appreciated donations to the association's faculty members serving as association dedicated account presently located with the officers, a Web site domain home, Kansas State University Foundation. newsletter archives storage and management, and some dedicated time of Then speaking as association secretary, the Institute's technical graduate assistant Parillo announced that Robin Higham, now for purposes of Web site construction and professor emeritus at Kansas State maintenance as well as other WWTSA University, is retiring as association tasks. archivist. The archives, consisting primarily of back issues of the newsletter, have been Next Detwiler reported on recent moved to the newly established Institute for developments with the International Military History and Twentieth Century Committee for the History of the Second Studies at Kansas State University, with the World War. At its quinquennial meeting, understanding of Institute Founding Director together with the International Congress of and KSU History Depa11ment chair Historical Sciences, in Oslo in August 2000, Professor Jack Holl. a new president and a new secretary general were elected, and it was agreed that Detwiler moved that the association vote its proposals for revision of the ICHSWW's acknowledgment and deep appreciation of statutes would be drawn up and circulated to Professor Robin Higham's years of service the national affiliates so that they could be as archivist. The motion was seconded and considered prior to the next plenary meeting, passed unanimously. in 2005 in Sydney, Australia. Meanwhile, plans and programs of the ICHSWW were to Parillo next reported on the KSU Institute continue to be coordinated, as in the past, for Military History and Twentieth Century through the standing Executive Committee, Studies. The Institute was officially founded which includes, in addition to the president, in October 2001 and involves cooperative secretary-general, and treasurer, the 4 - Spring 2002 American and Russian vice presidents between Writing and Experience in Jewish (Detwiler and his Russian counterpart, Prof. Diaries from the Holocaust"; Klaus Latzel, Oleg A. Rzheshevsky), and a few others "Violence and gender in German Diaries of (e.g., representatives of the British and the World War II"; and Parks Coble, "Life in Canadian committees). Unfortunately, Wartime China-the Human Experience, Detwiler reported, since Oslo the three the Human Memory." principal officers of the ICHSWW have failed to coordinate with the full Executive There was a call for suggested presentations Committee the program for an ICHSWW for the 2004 AHA annual conference, to be conference in Hamburg on "The Home held on 8-11 January 2004 at the Marriott Coming of Prisoners of War after 1945: Wardman Park and Omni Shoreham in Ideology, Family, Narrative," in summer Washington, D.C. During a brief discussion 2002, and the proposal for a round-table by of possible sessions that ensued, Professor the ICHSWW on "Norms of Legitimate Mark Stoler pointed out that the AHA's Warfare in History" to be held in Sydney, recently renewed interest in cultivating Australia, in conjunction with the greater participation by military historians International Congress in 2005. Detwiler presents much more promising opportunities said that he and Prof. Rzheshevsky have for getting WWTSA-sponsored sessions both formally protested their exclusion from approved by the AHA program committee responsible participation, as members of the than has been the case for