In your American History class, you are going to study foreign policy in January. We are going to be reading literature to support your learning in history class. Your assignment is to research books that you can connect to any war that involved America and anther country that took place after 1898. You can find books that are related to the Spanish-American War, WW1, WW2, The Cold War, Vietman War, The Phillipine-American War, Persian Gulf War, The War in Afganistan, The Iraq War, or any other war that America was involved in from 1898 to the present day. If you cannot find books that are related to the war itself, think about the time period. Tell us about one fiction book and one non-fiction book. Choose books that may be of interest to you.
In your post, include the title, author and when the book was written. Also, include what the book is about and how it connects to foreign policy. Please post your answers to this question by Monday, December 22, 2008. Happy searching!
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ReplyDeleteAnne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
ReplyDeleteBy Anne Frank - Pocket Books (1972) - Paperback - 305 pages - ISBN 0671707612
A young girl's journal records her family's struggles during two years of hiding from the Nazis in war-torn Holland.
he Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier
ReplyDeleteBy Walter Dean Myers - Scholastic (1999) - Hardback - 140 pages - ISBN 0439050138
Each harrowing day of battle in France convinces seventeen-year-old Scott Pendleton Collins that he may not survive. In desperation, he records his thoughts, fears, and hopes in a journal he has carried since his first days as a soldier in Basic Training at Fort Dix.
Flags of Our Fathers
ReplyDeleteBy James Bradley, Ron Powers - Bantam Books (2001) - Paperback - 375 pages - ISBN 055338029X
In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima—and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island’s highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flag-raisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos.
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
ReplyDelete- DIANE ACKERMAN
A true story.
vietnam war (DK eyewitness accounts)
ReplyDeleteBy: stuart murray
may 10th 2005
this connects to foreign policy because it tells you about the war and the weapons that were used, and americas involment in the war.
i still have to get anothr book
Donna W
Don't You Know There's a War On?
ReplyDeleteBy Avi - HarperCollins (2003) - Paperback - 208 pages - ISBN 0380815443
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie finds out something even more alarming. Principal Lomister may not be a spy, but he is plotting to get rid of Howie's favorite teacher. Howie's dad is fighting Nazis overseas, and his mom is working hard to support the war effort, so Miss Gossim is the only person Howie can depend on. With the help of his friends, and a plan worthy of radio show superhero Captain Midnight, Howie intends to save Miss Gossim!
Sophia C.+ Brianna H.
ReplyDeleteThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
By: Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she’s never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb….
As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends—and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society—born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island—boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.
Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society’s members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.
OPAL AND GABBY'S!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteFICTION::
The Moon Bridge
by Marcia Savin - Juvenile Fiction - Scholastic Inc. (1995) - Paperback - 240 pages
When Mitzi and her Japanese-American family are moved to an internment camp during the Second World War, she and her best friend, the rebellious Ruthie, plan to meet after the war at Golden Gate Park.
Number the Stars
By Lois Lowry - Random House Childrens Books (1998) - Paperback - 144 pages - ISBN 0440227534
Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943 and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family. Soon Annemarie is asked to go on a dangerous mission to save Ellen's life.
NONFICTION::
When the World Closed Its Doors: Struggling to Escape Nazi-Occupied Europe
By Ida Piller-Greenspan, Susan M. Branting - Paradigm Publishers (2006) - Paperback - 174 pages - ISBN 159451254X
At the beginning of World War II, the United States and other countries erected a "paper wall" - a bureaucratic maze that prevented all but a small number of Jewish refugees from emigrating from Nazi-occupied Europe. When the World Closed Its Doors tells the true story of a young couple who, like many European Jews, were caught between the Nazis and the "paper wall."Ida Piller-Greenspan was married in Belgium on May 9, 1940. That night the Nazis invaded Belgium. She and her new husband survived the next four months hitchhiking through occupied territory, hiding in barns and tunnels, dodging bombs near Dunkirk, crossing the Pyrenees on foot, and enduring weeks with little food and no money. Ultimately they arrived in Portugal, certain they would find sanctuary somewhere in the world beyond Europe's borders. But their trials were not over. It took nine anxious months for them to find a country that would let them in - months spent watching in horror as most refugees were forced back to uncertain lives in their home countries.Forty years later, Ida, an accomplished artist, created a pictorial diary of their journey. Her prints, lyrical, haunting, and compelling, are accompanied by a page-turning narrative that bears witness to this treacherous and largely forgotten chapter of World War II history.
**GUESS WHAT? MY (gabby's) great aunt Ida wrote this book. YAY!**
human smoke
ReplyDeleteby: nicholas Baker
Synopsis
Bestselling author Nicholson Baker, recognized as one of the most dexterous and talented writers in America today, has created a compelling work of nonfiction bound to provoke discussion and controversy---a wide-ranging, astonishingly fresh perspective on the political and social landscape that gave rise to World War II.
The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II
Patrick K. O'Donnell
Synopsis
The never-before-told story of a team of American spies operating behind enemy lines, on an impossible mission to sever the Third Reich’s supply artery: the Brenner Pass.
-DANIELLE && NADINE
Our Vietnam: The war 1954-1975
ReplyDeleteAuthor: A.J Langguth
768 pages.
Non -Fiction
by Josephine & Adrian
ReplyDelete[:
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac
ReplyDeletethis book is about a 16 yea old boy who wants to hekp out with world war two so he lies about his age and gets selected. He has to learn to speak in code and he gets involved with a big scheme. I think this is non fiction... but im not sure.
Rosemarie & Brianna R.
Last Day in Vietnam
ReplyDeleteBy: Will Eisner (an american)
July 2000
Last Day in Vietnam is Eisner's memoir of stories about soldiers who are engaged not only in the daily hostilities of war but also in larger, more personal combat. During Eisner's years in the military, and particularly during the many field trips he made for P.S. Magazine, he observed camp life at close range.
Mystery at Manzanar: A WWII Internment Camp Story
By: Eric Fein (an american)
August 1, 2008
During World War II, 15yearold Tommy Yamamoto and his family are forced into the Manzanar internment camp for Japanese Americans. While there, an elderly internee is attacked, and one of the camp's guards is charged with the crime. Tommy sets out to solve the crime and discovers some unlikely suspects.
Edina K.
The Writing Of War : French and German Fiction and World War II
ReplyDeleteBy : William Cloonan
Fiction Book -
Hardcover, 208 pages.
University Press of Florida - May 01, 1999.
Summary : William argues that many established writers attempted tow rite about the war, but were unsuccessful because they refused to confront the ways in which this conflict was so different from previous wars.
Spanish - American War
By : Daniel E. Brannen
Hardcover, 200 pages.
Mach 01, 2003.
Non - fiction book -
Summary : The book explains that the Spanish war was fought from April to August of 1898. The war led to Cuba being liberated from Spanish rule, an the U.S gaining control of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
The Persian Gulf War
By : Henry M. Holden
Library Binding, 48 pages.
Enslow Publishers, Incorporated
January 01, 2003
Non - fiction Book -
Summary : This book offers an overview of the causes, participants, leading political and military figures, and battles of wars Americans have waged since colonial times.
The Iraq War
John Keegan
Paperback, 304 pages
Knopf Publishing Group
May 24, 2005
Non - Fiction Book -
Summary : In this book, John Keegan explains just how the forces defeated an Iraqi army twice its size. Keegan also addressed questions as whether Saddam Hussein ever possessed weapons of mass destruction.
-- Jenna S. & Angelina C.
Non-Fiction:
ReplyDeleteOn Call in Hell: A doctors Iraw War Story
By: Richard Jadick & Thomas Hayden
Paperback + 275 pages
Summary: This is basically doctors storys on how they dealt with treating troops in Iraq.
The Iraq War Reader
By: MANY PEOPLE!
Paperback + 736 pages
Summary: A compilation of nearly eighty articles, essays, and other documents provides a balanced overview of the war in Iraq, covering such topics as the history of the region, the causes of the conflict, and the opinions of individuals on both sides of the debate, featuring contributions by George W. Bush, Barbara Ehrenreich, Henry Kissinger, Noam Chomsky, Bill Moyers, and others. Original. 50,000 first printing.
Fiction:
A Medic in Iraq: A novel of the Iraq War
By: Cole "Doc" Bolchoz
unknown + unknown
Summary: Told in journal format, this novel of the Iraq war is a fictional story that revolves around a medic and the day to day activities of the unit he serves. He tries so hard to keep his men safe, in a world where safety is not an option.
Contemporary Iraqi Fiction
By: Mustava Shakir
Hardcover + 202 pages.
Summary: Capturing the rich diversity of Iraqi literary expression, a definitive anthology of fiction brings together the work of sixteen Iraqi writers in works, all translated from Arabic into English, that reflect on such themes as family, childhood, war, political repression, and interfaith relationships and are accompanied by biographical profiles of the writers and a concise history of Iraqi literature.
-Shannon Doran 931 : )
Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam. (FICTION)
ReplyDeleteby: Clayton, Paul.
this is about an anti war boy who ends up going to war and it changes him- he sees his friend die, and all aspects of war. the author clayton is anti-war and it shows throughout the book, so this book can give be a different perspective.
Summons of the Trumpet: U.S.-Vietnam in Perspective (NON FICTION)
by: Dave R. Palmer
this book gives you a little bit of background on the vietnam war , and also about vietnam, and the us before the war
vietnam war (DK eyewitness accounts)
By: stuart murray
may 10th 2005
this connects to foreign policy because it tells you about the war and the weapons that were used, and americas involment in the war.
Fiction:
ReplyDeleteJohnny got his gun
By: Dalton Trumbo
Written in 1938.
Summary: A young soldier serving in the World War l awakes in a hospital and realizes that he has no arms, no legs, no jaws, and no tongue. He's also blind and deaf. His only sense left is touch. He tries to kill himself, but fails. He, later, realizes that he wasn't allowed to leave, because doctors didn't want other soldiers to see the the horror of the war. If other soldiers saw the condition this soldier was in, they would disagree to fight in the war.
Non-Fiction:
The First World War: A complete history
By: Martin Gilbert
Summary: This book includes letters and diaries of soldiers that describes their hope and fear of the war. It also includes photos and maps, showing places mentioned in the book.
- Janet
Fiction
ReplyDeleteGrandfather's Tale: The Tale of a German Sniper
Arthur:Timothy Erenberger
written in 2000
Summary: this book is about a boy's grandfather named Georg Frick, he was drafted into the German army for WWII. The book tells a story about a sniper trying to survive harsh circumstances. It's a story about survival.
Fiction
In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
Arthur:Doug Stanton
Written:2001
Summary: This book is about the story of USS Indianapolis; it was a marine ship and it was attacked. The book talks about the attack.
-Alex Bao
the book thief by markus zusak
ReplyDeletethis book is about a foster child who has a jewish person hiding in her house frome the nazis. i know it isnt in america but it sounds lke a really really good book.
that last comment was from rosemarie...
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