HISTORY Reading List

Year 9

Fiction

Birdsong - S. Faulks Regeneration - P. Barker The Secret Battle - A. Herbert A Testament of Youth - V. Brittain All Quiet on the Western Front - E. Remarque Where Eagles Dare - A. Maclean The Eagle has Landed - J. Higgins Living with the Enemy - F. Knoller The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - J. Boyne One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - A. Solzhenitsyn Animal Farm - G. Orwell To Kill a Mockingbird - H. Lee The Color Purple - A. Walker

Non-Fiction

Anne Frank’s diary - Anne Frank Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela

Audio-Visual

Visual

WW1 in colour Gallipoli 1917 War Horse The Red Baron Oh! What a Lovely War Blackadder Goes Forth Dunkirk Saving Private Ryan Atonement Darkest Hour Enemy at the Gates The Great Escape Bridge on the River Kwai Where Eagles Dare Casablanca Hacksaw Ridge Songs that won the war, Vera Lynn and WWII songs The World at War series, NB Genocide episode

People’s Century (BBC)

Fall Out (atom bomb and arms race) New Release (1960s) Skin Deep (civil rights/apartheid)

Mississippi Burning, Film on civil rights Rock ‘n’ Roll years, series of 30 min programmes watch 1960s ones) Cathy Come Home, Film on ‘60s poverty

Audio

Beatles, Sergeant Pepper album Rolling Stones, Let it Bleed

Websites/visual

Usually start with the BBC and the Historical Association Then: The Great War Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar Assassination of Franz Ferdinand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKuwogLwnk&t=1s Causes of World War 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGlmlSTn-eM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pFCpKtwCkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd2ch4XV84s

WW 1 Battlefields: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIiDULrXaqQ

Einsatzgruppen Netflix (2011) Shot at dawn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoKrKg7ZCQ0 Vimy Ridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9--M_tB-4S4 Suffragettes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIknRGKCKZo Hew Strachan’s World War One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPXDFkM6-aE&list=PLA5e6wnPHowgLX0lUJGrL2ddNIrZUXgI7 Passchendaele: https://youtu.be/dBULkD_FEnw Battle of Britain: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0078s6r Gallipoli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZoF1pwb5M Somme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYgiM-EmKK4 Genocide: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3p7bqw Musee des Beaux Arts: http://www.transpositions.co.uk/about-suffering-they-were-never-wrong/ Holocaust Survivor: https://www.ted.com/talks/eddie_jaku_a_holocaust_survivor_s_blueprint_for_happiness History of the World in 18 minutes: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_christian_the_history_of_our_world_in_18_minutes Slavery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyoJXTohKOE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/12/treasury-tweet-slavery-compensate-slave- owners?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

WW1 in colour 1917 War Horse The Red Baron Oh! What a Lovely War Blackadder Goes Forth

Dunkirk Saving Private Ryan Atonement Darkest Hour Enemy at the Gates The Great Escape Bridge on the River Kwai Where Eagles Dare Casablanca Hacksaw Ridge Songs that won the war - Vera Lynn and WWII songs The World at War series, NB Genocide episode

People’s Century (BBC): Fall Out (atom bomb and arms race) New Release (1960s) Skin Deep (civil rights/apartheid) Mississippi Burning: Film on civil rights Rock ‘n’ Roll years: series of 30 min programmes (watch 1960s ones) Cathy Come Home: Film on ‘60s poverty

Audio

Music: Beatles - Sergeant Pepper album Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

Podcasts

Charge of the Light Brigade: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008md8x Indian Mutiny: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qprnj Wilberforce: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00774j0 Empire: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005459p Suffragettes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jjgg8 Slavery: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548jd

Year 10/11

Fiction

Goodbye to Berlin, C. Isherwood Schindler’s Ark - T. Kenneally Fatherland - R. Harris From Russia with Love - I. Fleming The Spy who came in from the Cold - J. le Carre When the Wind Blows - R. Briggs Burden of the Desert - J. Huggler

Alone in Berlin - H. Fallada The Girl in the Picture - D. Chong

Audio-Visual

Websites – start with the BBC site; the Historical Association site (user name: 12889, pw: student123) can also be useful

Visual BBC People’s Century series The Nazis: A Warning from History Hitler: The Rise of Evil Sophie Scholl Valkyrie Downfall The Pianist Schindler’s List From Russia with Love 13 Days Goodbye Lenin Bridge of Spies The Lives of Others Forrest Gump The Deer Hunter Good Morning Vietnam Apocalypse Now Platoon Argo Cabaret Babylon Berlin Alone in Berlin Jo Jo Rabbit Conspiracy Generation War Sophie Scholl Ken Burns Vietnam Netflix The Cold War Episodes 1-5 CNN The Nazis a Warning from History BBC (19917) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kkxvd/episodes/guide Hitler’s Circle of Evil Netflix (2018) https://www.netflix.com/title/80138915 The Rise of the Nazis BBC 2 (2019) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00084td World at War Episode 1 - Causes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b4g4ZZNC1E&t=85s World at War Episode 2 – Nazi Soviet Pact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKSOLR-LUe0 World at War Episode 20 Genocide: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3p7bqw

Versailles too harsh?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYVJEQA9BSg The Freikorps in Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROUDbzhsO6s Treaty of Neuilly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJGZAkF0x_M Beer Hall Putsch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWI2pEv0wg&list=PLSQl0a2vh4HCh4EL9Ufw_CQmBPQf9TWVr&index=5

Armistice and Impact on Germany: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0br9xzq Iranian Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w4Ku6l7OE Iran-Iraq War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg5fgqrc4Gw&list=UUeUJFQ0D9qs6aVNyUt9fkeQ&index=9&t=0s Bay of Pigs: https://youtu.be/XmkbAduMD_E?list=PLSQl0a2vh4HCOyhWe1d6QkSD6NlsW9pzb 1936 Olympics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwd6DBpVPOE Christianity and the Third Reich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igdIoXYVQ_k Cuban Missile Crisis: https://youtu.be/VO40SpSBjbc?list=PLSQl0a2vh4HCOyhWe1d6QkSD6NlsW9pzb Korean War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEGyRgYJKEY&list=PLSQl0a2vh4HCOyhWe1d6QkSD6NlsW9pzb&index=2 Origins of the Cold War: https://youtu.be/qzw-t6raqdY?list=PLSQl0a2vh4HCOyhWe1d6QkSD6NlsW9pzb Nazi Aggression and Appeasement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTdV9JaHiIA&list=PLSQl0a2vh4HCh4EL9Ufw_CQmBPQf9TWVr&index=30 Causes of the Cold War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79TpDe3t2g Gulf War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxj-xCiiay0&list=UUeUJFQ0D9qs6aVNyUt9fkeQ&index=22&t=0s Vietnam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAq6MrYgLr0&list=UUeUJFQ0D9qs6aVNyUt9fkeQ&index=44&t=0s https://youtu.be/9e9GWdT2pEQ?list=PLSQl0a2vh4HCOyhWe1d6QkSD6NlsW9pzb Economic Depression and the Dictators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojo8-GhhQcA Appeasement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yEpBKpK2Yw Life in Nazi Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDFFis0j4JM&list=UUeUJFQ0D9qs6aVNyUt9fkeQ&index=51&t=0s Hitler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vXAPxPmL8

Audio Historical Association website (login details above) is an excellent source with podcasts on most of the course topics: Weimar Germany; Great Depression; Nazis; Cold War.

Rosa Luxemburg: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08lfc77