WW II: Behind Closed Doors

Additional Resources

Books

• "The Library of Congress World War II Companion," Simon and Schuster, 2007
• "The Oxford Companion to World War II" edited by I.C.B. Dear, Oxford University Press, 2001
• "Stalin, a Biography" by Robert Service, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005
• "Churchill, a Life" by Martin Gilbert, Henry Holt and Company, 1991
• "The Second World War" by Martin Gilbert, Henry Holt and Company, 1989
• "FDR," Jean Edward Smith, Random House, 2007
• "The Dictators" by Richard Overy, W.W. Norton & Company, 2004
• “Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill Won One War and Began Another” by Jonathan Fenby, Pocket Books, 2006
• “Stalin and His Hangmen” by Donald Rayfield, Random House, 2004
• “Stalin” by Edvard Radzinsky, Anchor Books, 1996
• “Unquiet Ghost” by Adam Hochschild, Mariner Books, 2003
• “WWII Behind Closed Doors” by Lawrence Rees, Pantheon Books, 2009

PBS Web Resource Links

• The War
• The Perilous Fight: America’s World War II in Color
• Red Files
• Race for the Superbomb

Outside Web Resource Links

• Gulag: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom
• Gulag: Forced Labor Camps Online Exhibit
• Revelations from the Russian Archives
• World War II Documents from the Avalon Project
• Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
• The Stalin Project
• GI Pamphlet Series

Primary Sources

• Lend Lease Act
• Nazi Invasion Declaration
• Non Aggression Pact
• Polish Soviet Agreement
• Potsdam Conference
• Terms of German Surrender
• The Atlantic Conference
• The Tehran Conference
• The Washington Conference
• Yalta Conference