#WwII books

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

"My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck" Dear America Book by  Mary Pope Osborne

2000

Found on ebay, user humbletreasure

I LOVED THESE BOOKS!!!

[peipurr]

HE FUCKING POURED WATER INTO REICHENAU'S WINE IN FRONT OF DER FÜHRER AHAHAHA I'M AT LOSS FOR WORDS oh fedi you sly little man

[catsbookreviews]

All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr

Another book I read for my English class.

Marie-Laure is a French girl who is forced to live with her uncle who's a bit out of the ordinary. Wener is an orphaned German boy (I think he was German) who joins the Nazis. It goes through their experiences during WWII.

I liked this book. It had nice short chapters with a good dual pov and time jumps. Not going to be my favorite book of all time but it was good.

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

10 April 1945 Dick wrote to DeEtta:

In his letter to DeEtta on the 16th September 1945 Dick apparently knew plenty about love, especially about being lovesick:

In his letters he wrote between April and Sept, Dick suddenly started talking a lot about Nix. At one point claiming how untrustworthy Nix is off duty. He also kept gently urging DeEtta to go find and marry someone.

[i-am-trans-gwender]

Thinking about how in the Archie Ninja Turtle comics Hitler's brain traveled back in time to team up his WW2 self. The Turtles go back in time to retrieve his brain but WW2 Hitler holds them at gunpoint and accuses them of being demons who've come for his soul. Leo says they only came for his brain. WW2 Hitler misinterprets this as being his brain rather than his brain in the future and kills himself to stop the turtles from getting his brain.

Tldr: The Ninja Turtles killed Hitler.

[academic-vampire]

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

-The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, p.84.

[browsethestacks]

Comic Book Creator: Ramona Fradon

[worldhistoryfacts]

One type of American World War II propaganda that delights me is the pro-book material:

{Buy me a coffee} {WHF} {Medium} {Looking Through the Past}

More interesting propaganda in my newsletter:

[sea-changed]

"For what they are worth, or for what they may recapture, here they are, period pieces, fairy tales, half-meaningless memories of a time and of attitudes which have gone forever from the world, a sad and jocular recording of a little part of a war I saw and do not believe, unreal with trumped-up pageantry, so that it stands in the mind like the battle pictures of Crécy and Bunker Hill and Gettysburg. And, although all war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal, still there was in these memory-wars some gallantry, some bravery, some kindliness."

John Steinbeck, in the 1958 introduction to his collected 1943 World War II reportage Once There Was a War

[comic-covers]

(1942)

[ariastarke]

You want SJM to write another book about training to fight because you can’t comprehend a female character being badass and having agency unless she holds a sword.

I want SJM to write a book about Elain training to be a spy because it plays on themes of everyone underestimating her, her powers as a seer, claiming agency in the NC, becoming a hidden weapon, and still maintaining the roots of her character.

We are not the same.

[peipurr]

I'm laughing too hard hahaha this is so funny

[evidenceof]

Armed Services Editions (ASEs) WWII - paperback, pocket-sized (4 by 5 ½ inches, slim, and no more than 3/4 of an inch thick), text printed in double columns per page for better readability

“Dog-eared and moldy and limp from the humidity those books go up the line. Because they are what they are, because they can be packed in a hip pocket or snuck into a shoulder pack, men are reading where men have never read before—in this SWPAC [Southwest Pacific] theatre anyway. I’ve seen GI’s with them[...]three days after the beach head at Hollandia. The kids were hungry[...]but there they were, guarding a captured Jap plane against souvenir hunters or in their sack in the beach camp or mooning out after . . . chow, reading a book.” - Charles Rawlings correspondence taken from When Books Went to War, Molly Guptill Manning

"Dell War paperbacks, for example, carried the following message: "BOOKS ARE WEAPONS—in a free democracy everyone may read what he likes. [...] This book has been manufactured in conformity with wartime restrictions—read it and pass it on." Modern technology...enabled the mass production and circulation of of approximately 123 million ASEs made exclusively for overseas distribution to military personnel. Soldiers read them even in the landing crafts on their way to Normandy." - Soldier's Heart Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, Elizabeth Samet

Images source: The Huntington Library

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Wrens played a major part in the planning and organisation of naval operations, serving at Bletchley Park and its out-stations, operating machines used in code-breaking.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[spinteresting]

I wanted to learn more about the escape networks for downed allied airmen. So I read these two books:

I would highly recommend both!

The Ones Who Got Away focuses on the airmen and their stories more than the resistance workers.

The Freedom Line focuses more on the resistance workers of the comet line. This book was so good. Really well written. I’d read this one first because it will give more context to the stories in the other book.