From: IN%"Rollins@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu" 9-MAY-1995 11:12:37.73
The theme of the April 30th issue of the NYT Book Review is "World War II
Memories." Some recently published books on the war are listed
below. In addition, the Times includes a section titled "World War II:
Other Accounts From All Over" (pages 16-17) listing international
publications about the war.
Here are some books reviewed this past week, by publisher.
Holt:
THE DAY THE WAR ENDED: MAY 8, 1945 - VICTROY IN EUROPE (The war
did not end in a day. The book stretches far beyond May 8)
by Martin Gilbert
Truman Talley/Dutton:
THE LAST GREAT VICTORY: THE END OF WORLD WAR II, JULY-AUGUST 1945
(A tour of the war and war literature organized around the
Potsdam meeting) by Stanley Weintraub
Knopf:
LONDON AT WAR: 1939-1945 (Londoners responded robustly to their
dangers, deprivations and sorrows) by Philip Ziegler
Oxford University Press:
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO WORLD WAR II (144 contributions, including
several of the war's most authoritative historians)
edited by I.C.B. Dear and M.R.D. Foot
Chronicle:
GHOSTS OF THE SKIES: AVIATION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR (Photographs
of old, restored bombers and fighter planes all over the world)
by Philip Makanna
Wiley:
THE BATTLE FOR OKINAWA (An account of the defense of Okinawa by
the Japanese commander) by Hiromichi Yahara
Donald I. Fine:
OPERATION ICEBERG: THE INVASION AND CONQUEST OF OKINAWA IN WORLD WAR
II (An oral history with many photographs) by Gerald Astor
William Morrow:
PRISONERS OF THE JAPANESE: POWS OF WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC
(11 years of interviews with survivors) by Gavan Daws
OTHER BOOKS ON OTHER SUBJECTS
MODEL: THE UGLY BUSINESS OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN (A sense of doomed
beauty lies beneath the surface of this overview of the modeling
industry) by Michael Gross
Random House:
OSWALD'S TALE: AN AMERICAN MYSTERY (Norman Mailer pursues the
secrets of Lee Harvey Oswald) by Norman Mailer
Houghton Mifflin:
EDMUND WILSON: A BIOGRAPHY (The irascible literary titan who was
one of the last of his kind) by Jeffrey Meyers
Harper Collins:
EAMON DE VALERA: THE MAN WHO WAS IRELAND (A Irish journalist and
historian paints a dark portrait of a man driven by lust for
power) by Tim Pat Coogan
Scribner:
HARD BARGAIN: HOW FDR TWISTED CHURCHILL'S ARM, EVADED THE LAW
AND CHANGED THE ROLE OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY (FDR, a political
correspondent argues, led his country by deceiving it)
by Robert Shogan
Vintage:
COLORED PEOPLE: A MEMOIR (The West Virginia Panhandle in the 1950's
when desegregation signaled the demise of beloved black rituals
and institutions) by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Harry N. Abrams:
LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON (A new look, from several angles, at a well
known work by Picasso) by William Rubin, Helene Seckel and Judith
Cousins
New York: Hyperion:
IN SEARCH OF STONES: A PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH, REASON, AND DISCOVERY
(The author of THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED and THE DIFFERENT DRUM
presents the closest thing to an autobiography he may ever
write) by M. Scott Peck
Crown:
YOUNG DISRAELI: 1804-1846 (Disraeli invented himself and Jane
Ridley traces the step-by-step progress of the making of Dizzy)
by Jane Ridley
Yale University Press:
THE RISE OF NEOCONSERVATISM: INTELLECTUALS AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
1945-1994 (A look at the forces that turned liberals into
neoconservatives) by John Ehrman
W.W. Norton:
KILLING CUSTER: THE BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN AND THE FATE OF
THE PLAINS INDIANS: (Why the blood baths of the Indian wars loom
so large) by James Welch with Paul Stekler
University of New Mexico Press:
SWEET MEDICINE: SITES OF INDIAN MASSACRES, BATTLEFIELDS, AND TREATIES
by Patricia Nelson Limerick
That is all for this week. Tune in again, Frank Chorba - Washburn
University - and editor of the JOURNAL OF RADIO STUDIES