WORLD WAR TWO STUDIES ASSOCIATION (formerly American Committee on the History of the Second World War) Donald S. Detwiler, Chairman Department of History Southern Illinois University at Carbondale ` Carbondale, Illinois 62901- 4519 [email protected] NEWSLETTER Permanent Directors ISSN 0885-5668 Charles F. Delzell Vanderbilt University Mark P. Parillo, Secretary and Newsletter Editor Department of History Terms expiring 2004 208 Eisenhower Hall Kansas State University Martin Blumenson Manhattan, Kansas 66506-1002 Washington D.C. 785-532-0374 FAX 785-532-7004 D’Ann Campbell No. 72 Fall 2004 [email protected] Sage Colleges James Ehrman, Associate Robert Dallek Editor and Webmaster University of California, Department of History Los Angeles Norwich University 158 Harmon Drive Stanley L.Falk Northfield, VT 05663-1035 Alexandria, Virginia Contents Archives: Ernest R. May Institute for Military History and Harvard University 20th Century Studies 221 Eisenhower Hall Dennis Showalter Kansas State University Colorado College Manhattan, Kansas 66506-1002 World War Two Studies Association Mark A. Stoler The WWTSA is affiliated with: University of Vermont General Information 2 American Historical Association Gerhard L. Weinberg 400 A Street, S.E. University of North Carolina Washington, D.C. 20003 at Chapel Hill The Newsletter 2 http://www.theaha.org Comité International d'Histoire Terms expiring 2005 Annual Membership Dues 2 de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent Dean C. Allard (Centre national de la recherche Naval Historical Center News and Notes scientifique [CNRS]) École Normale Supérieure de Cachan Edward J. Drea 2005 Elections 3 61, avenue du Président Wilson Department of Defense 94235 Cachan Cédex, France WWTSA Annual Dues 3 Waldo Heinrichs Institute for Military History and University of Nebraska 20th Century Studies, at WWTSA Annual Business Meeting 3 Kansas State University David Kahn WWTSA Panel at the SMH 3 Great Neck, New York Report on the 2004 Annual Meeting 4 Agnes Peterson Hoover Institution Appendix: Chairman’s Report 5 Ronald H. Spector George Washington University NARA Recent Accessions 8 Alan Witt Iowa State University Recently Published and Reprinted Books Earl Ziemke University of Georgia in English on World War II 24 Terms expiring 2006 Selected Titles from an Electronic Compilation Carl Boyd by Christina Fishback Old Dominion University Alexander Cochran Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Recently Published Articles in English Roy K. Flint on World War II 36 Valle Crucis, N.C. John Lewis Gaddis Selected Titles from an Electronic Compilation Yale University by Christina Fishback Robin Higham Kansas State University Richard H. Kohn University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Allan R. Millet Ohio State University Robert Wolfe Alexandria, Virginia 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 the 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. Fall 2004 - 3 News & Notes 2005 Elections Hampton Inn Historic District. To make reservations at the Hampton Inn, call Enclosed with this issue is the ballot for (843) 723-4000 or toll free 1-800- the 2005 elections of the association’s HAMPTON. The room rates at the Board of Directors serving the 2005-07 Hampton are also $129 per night, but the term. Remember to vote for no more deadline is 11 January 2005. than eight candidates. Please mail your completed ballot to the association For further information on the Society secretary at the indicated address by for Military History’s 2005 annual January 7, 2005. meeting, refer to: <http://citadel.edu/history_dept/News%2 WWTSA Annual Dues 0and%20Announcements/Societyformilh ist/SMHInfopage.htm>. The WWTSA annual membership fee comes due at the beginning of the WWTSA Panel at the SMH calendar year. Members should include the enclosed renewal form with their The association will be sponsoring a dues payment. scholarly session at the 2005 meeting of the Society for Military History in WWTSA Annual Business Meeting Charleston. The session is a roundtable discussion titled “Is World War Two the The 2005 World War Two Studies New Civil War? Perspectives on the Association business meeting will be Place of World War Two Studies in the held in conjunction with the annual Academy and Popular Culture.” meeting of the Society for Military History, to be held at the Francis Marion The participants are: Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina, on 24-27 February 2005. The business Allan R. Millett, The Ohio State meeting will convene at 12:15 p.m. in University the Middleton Room on Friday, Mark P. Parillo, Kansas State February 25th. University Charles Sanders, Kansas State WWTSA may make hotel reservations at University the Francis Marion Hotel by calling Mark Stoler, University of Vermont (843) 722-0600 or toll free at (877) 756- Janet Valentine, U.S. Army Center for 2121 or by going online at Military History <www.francismarioncharleston.com>. Use the group code MILITARY to The session will run from 10:15 a.m. to obtain the conference rate of $129 per 12:00 noon on Friday, February 25th in night. The deadline for room Room B-1 (the Gold Ballroom) of the reservations at the Francis Marion is 25 Francis Marion Hotel. January 2005. There are also fifty rooms reserved at the overflow hotel, the 4 - Fall 2004 Report on the 2004 Annual Business Ramsay of Kansas State University. Meeting Parillo then called for ideas or suggestions for more panels for the The World War Two Studies upcoming SMH and AHA annual Association annual business meeting for meetings. The treasurer’s report 2004 convened at the Hyatt regency indicated continued financial solvency Bethesda on May 21st, during the for the association and noted that the Society for Military History annual WWTSA reserve account at the Kansas meeting for 2004. Board members in State University Foundations was attendance included Stanley Falk, Allan uncalled upon again this year, which has Millett, and D’Ann Campbell. allowed that fund to rise to a little more Association secretary Mark Parillo than $800. called the assembly to order and chaired the meeting. Next, Parillo read the association chairman’s report on relations with the Parillo began by conveying the regrets of International Committee on the History Chairman Donald S. Detwiler about his of the Second World War and the 2005 inability to attend due to health international conference, prepared by the problems. Parillo then reported on the chairman when he had determined that past year as newsletter editor and he would be compelled to miss the secretary-treasurer. He noted that Jim meeting. The report is included in its Ehrman might be leaving the staff entirety as an appendix to this report. shortly because of his imminent hire to a Printed copies of the report were position that would make his distributed to those in attendance. continuation as associate newsletter editor much more difficult. The With no items for action carried over secretary’s report expressed the from the previous year, the meeting association’s gratitude to those moved quickly through “old business” to individuals who participated in the “new business.” The sole item of new WWTSA-sponsored panel, “Teaching business was the presentation of the call Military History to Undergraduates,” for papers by ICHSWW Secretary- held at the recent annual meeting of the General Pieter Lagrou for the 20th American Historical Association: Dale International Congress of Historical Clifford of the University of North Sciences, to be held in Sydney, 3-9 July Florida, John Guilmartin of the Ohio 2005, which the chairman had been State University, Patrice Olsen of Illinois appended to his report. Printed copies of State University, Lori Lyn Bogle of the the call for papers U.S. Naval Academy, and Michael were made available to those in discussion about the situation with the attendance. Special note was made of international committee and what might Secretary-General Lagrou’s informal be done to improve relations. There was extension of the deadline for paper general understanding of the proposals for the conference. association’s call for patience in response to the actions of the When the meeting moved to calls for international committee’s leadership.