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Book Pairings: WWII

Groups of books that provide multiple perspectives on a shared experience, idea, or event.

The Atomic Bomb

Atomic Dawn: A biography of Robert Oppenheimer by J. E. Driemen
Call Number: B Oppenheimer
ISBN: 0875183972
Publication Date: 1988-12-01
Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb by Rebecca Larsen
Call Number: B Oppenheimer
ISBN: 0531106071
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
Call Number: 623.4 She
ISBN: 9781596434875
Publication Date: 2012-09-04
Hiroshima by Robert Young
Call Number: 940.54
ISBN: 9780875186108
Publication Date: 1994-08-01
Hiroshima and Nagasaki by R. G. Grant
Call Number: 940.54 G
ISBN: 0817250131
Publication Date: 1998-01-01

Concentration Camp Survivors

Surviving Hitler by Andrea Warren
Call Number: 940.53 W
ISBN: 9780060007676
Publication Date: 2002-09-17
Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
Call Number: 940.53 LEV
ISBN: 9780807531488
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
No Pretty Pictures by Anita Lobel
Call Number: B Loebel
ISBN: 9780688159351
Publication Date: 1998-09-17
The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson; Marilyn J. Harran (As told to); Elisabeth B. Leyson (As told to)
Call Number: B Leyson
ISBN: 9781442497818
Publication Date: 2013-08-27
Night by Elie Wiesel (Preface by); Marion Wiesel (Translator)
Call Number: F Wie
ISBN: 0374500010
Publication Date: 2006-01-16
The Prisoners of Breendonk by James M. Deem
Call Number: 940.5318 Dee
ISBN: 9780544096646
Publication Date: 2015-08-04

Japanese Americans in WWII

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston; James D. Houston
Call Number: 940.54 H
ISBN: 1328742113
Publication Date: 2017-07-11
I Am an American by Jerry Stanley
Call Number: 940.53 S
ISBN: 9780517597873
Publication Date: 1994-08-16
A Fence Away from Freedom by Ellen Levine
Call Number: 940.53 L
ISBN: 9780399226380
Publication Date: 1995-10-17

Groups Helping the War Effort

Courage Has No Color - The True Story of the Triple Nickles by Tanya Lee Stone
Call Number: 940.54 Sto
ISBN: 9780763665487
Publication Date: 2013-10-08
Harlem Hellfighters by J. Patrick Lewis; Gary Kelley (Illustrator)
Call Number: 940.54 Lew
ISBN: 1568462468
Publication Date: 2014-08-19
Those Incredible Women of World War II by Karen Zeinert
Call Number: 940.54 Z
ISBN: 9781562944346
Publication Date: 1994-10-01