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NEWSLETTER Manhanan, Kansas 66506-1002 785-532-0374 Permanent Directors ISSI'll0885-5668 FAX 785-532-7004 Parillo@Ksu.Edu Charles F WORLD WAR TWO STUDIES ASSOCIATION (formerly American Committee on the History o/the Second World War) Donald S. Detwiler, Chainnan Mark P. Parillo, Secrerarv and Department of History News/eller Edl/or . Southern Illinois University Department of History a! Carbondale 208 Eisenhower Hall Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4519 Kansas Stare UniveI3ity [email protected] NEWSLETTER Manhanan, Kansas 66506-1002 785-532-0374 Permanent Directors ISSI'll0885-5668 FAX 785-532-7004 [email protected] Charles F. Delzell Vanderbilt University James Ehrman, AssoclOte Editor and Webmasler Arthur L. Fwtk Departmeot of History University of Florida 208 Eisenhower Hall Kansas State Universirv Manhattan, Kansas 66506-1002 Tums expiring 2002 No. 68 Fall 2002 Archives: Dean C. 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Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, the United Kingdom, and the Vatican. The Newsletter The WWTSA issues a semiarmual newsletter, which is assigned International Standard Serial Number [ISSN] 0885-5668 by the Library of Congress. Back issues of the Nevl'sletter 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. Arumal membership dues of $15.00 are payable at the beginning of each calendar year. Students with U.S. addresses may, iftheir circumstances require it, pay armual 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 ofthe 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 uniess special arrangements are made to cover the cost of airmail postage. Fall 2002 - 3 News & Notes WWTSA Elections and Membership the special conference rates for Renewal participating conference hotels, even if not registering for the SMH conference This issue of the Newsletter contains itself. inserts for the annual association elections and membership renewal. WWTSA Panel at the AHA Ballots and renewal forms with membership dues should be submitted to The World War Two Studies the secretary-treasurer by January 31, Association and the American Historical 2003. Association are co-sponsoring a scholarly session at the American Annual Business Meeting Historical Association annual meeting in Chicago in January 2003. The session, The annual business meeting of the titled "Reading the Wartime Diaries of World War Two Studies Association, Ordinary People in Europe and Asia,. originally scheduled in conjunction with 1937-45," will occur on Friday, January the annual meeting of the American 3, from 9:30 to 11 :30 a.m., in the Palmer Historical Association, has been House, LaSalle Room 2. The session rescheduled due to reasons beyond our program is as follows. control. The meeting will be held during the Society for Military History annual Chair: Stefan Tanaka, University of meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, 1-4 California at San Diego May 2003. The business meeting will "Life in Wartime China: The Human nd convene at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, May 2 , Experience, the Human Memory," in the 3rd Floor Boardroom of the Hilton. Parks M Coble. University of Details ofthe lodgings arrangements for Nebraska at Lincoln the SMH conference will not be "Probing the Limits of Representation in available until early in the new year. Jewish Diaries from the Holocaust," Members planning to attend are urged to Alexandra Garbarini, University of check the SMH Web site <Imp Illt'lf,SlIIh­ California at Los Angeles hq,or',z]003con(lI7dexhll7l!> in January 2003 "Violence and Gender in German for information on lodgings for the SMH Diaries in World War II," Klaus annual meeting. WWTSA members do Latzel, Independent Scholar '.5. not need to register for the conference to "The Wartime Experiences ofOrdinary attend the WWTSA annual business Japanese in World War II," Samuel H. meeting but will need to register ifthey Yamashita, Pomona College wish to attend any of the SMH scholarly Comment: The Audience panels or other conference events. As was the case in 2002, the SMH Since this session is jointly sponsored by organizers have instructed us that, when the WWTSA, WWTSA members do not making reservations, WWTSA members need to display an AHA Conference should identify themselves as badge to gain admittance. participants of the Society for Military History 2003 annual meeting to ensure 4 - Fall 2002 Recently Published and Reprinted Books in English on World War II Selected Titles from an Electronic Compilation by James Ehrman Adas, Michael, Peter N. Stearns, and Stuart B. Schwartz. Turbulent Passage: A Global History ofthe Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Longman Publishing, 2002. Adler, Bill. World War II Letters. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002. Air Ministry Staff, Great Britain. The Rise and Fall ofthe German Air Force, 1933-1945. London, England: Public Record Office, 2002. Allan, Henry Christopher. H-Hour Plus Three: The Saga ofthe U. S. Army Amphibious Engineers in the Pacific during World War II. New Bern, NC: Trafford Publishing, 2002. Allen, Michael Thad. The Business of Genocide: The SS, Slave Labor and the Concentration Camps. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Allen, Oliver Craig, and Mildred Faye Allen. Abandoned at Bataan: One Man's Story of SurvivaL Crimson Horse Publishing, 2002. Albert, Frank. From the Prairies of Chicago: Us.s. Enterprise CCV-6) the Most Decorated Ship of World War II. New Bern, NC: Trafford Publishing, 2002. Altvater, Julius. Off We Go - Down in Flame. New Bern, NC: Trafford Publishing, 2002. Atkin, Nicholas. The French at War: 1934-1944. New York, NY: Longman Publishing, 2002. Authers, John, and Richard Wolffe. The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle over the Debts ofthe Holocaust. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. Ballard, Robert D. Collision with History: The Search ofJohn F. Kennedy's PT 109. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2002. Biles, Roger. Crusading Liberal: Paul H. Douglas ofIllinois. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. Blood and Tears: Greece. 1940-1949: A Story of War and Love. Washington, D.C.: American Hellenic Institute Foundation, 2002. Berton, Pierre. Marching As to War: Canada's Turbulent Years, 1899-1953. New York. NY: Doubleday, 2002. Fall 2002 - 5 Berstron, Christer, and Andrey Mikhailov. Black CrosslRed Star, Vol. 1: Operation Barbarossa, 1941: The Air War over the Eastern Front. Pacifica, CA: Pacifica Military History, 2002. Blount, Peppy, R. E. A Time for All Reasons. Austin, TX: Eakin Press, 2002. Boyd, Carl, and Akihiko Yosida. The Japanese Submarine Force and World War II. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Brown, David, editor-,- The Royal Navy and the Mediterranean, Vol. I: September 1939­ October 1940. Portland, OR: Frank Cass Publishers, 2002. Catanzaro, Francis Bernard. With the 41st Division in the Southwest Pacific: A Foot Soldier's Story. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002.
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