| Why
Weed World War II?
The year 2005 marks the 60th anniversary of the end of World
War II and the first anniversary of the WWII Memorial in
Washington D.C. Recognizing that under five million U.S.
veterans now survive of the more than 16 million who served
in those war years, a flurry of commemorative events, educational
activities, and publishing is currently taking place. There
are wonderful new and interesting titles available to supplement
or replace aging titles in school library collections.
 Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
Check 940.53 (World War II, 1939-1945) and 940.54 (Military
History of World War II). It’s especially important
to review your AV and reference collections due to the number
of new AV titles and reference resources recently released.
There may be some titles in the biography section that should
be updated.
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
 As
with any historical event, save any primary source materials
that are still appropriate for the collection but reconsider
titles that deal with interpretation and controversies that
might have changed over the years. Don't keep "post
war" accounts of WWII countries that are misleading
to the current state of those countries. Be wary of keeping
encyclopedias that are old, especially if located in the
reference collection. Older AV titles may have the same
archival photographs as newer titles, but new replacement
AV titles will likely include enhanced photographs as well
as reenactments and may include contrasting current views
of those past locations in order to make the events more
interesting to students today. Replace any "borderline"
print or AV titles with some of the attractive new titles
on the market now due to the renewed interest in this time
period.
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- After
victory : Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and the making of
the peace, 1967.
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British and American tanks of World War II : the complete
illustrated history of British, American and Commonwealth
tanks, gun motors carriages and special purpose vehicles,
1969.
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The brutal friendship : Mussolini, Hitler, and the fall
of Italian fascism, 1962.
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Burn after reading : the espionage history of World War
II, 1961.
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Captains without eyes : intelligence failures in World War
II, 1969.
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The case against Adolf Eichmann, 1960.
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Causes of World War II [filmstrip], 1970.
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Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin : the war they waged and the
peace they sought, 1957.
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The complete history of World War II, 1949.
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Double-edged secrets : U.S. naval intelligence operations
in the Pacific during World War II, 1979.
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The end of glory : an interpretation of the origin of World
War II, 1970.
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The game of the foxes : the untold story of German espionage
in the United States and Great Britain during World War
II, 1971.
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Hitler’s spies : German military intelligence in World
War II, 1978.
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Illustrated World War II encyclopedia : an unbiased account
of the most devastating war known to mankind, 1978.
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None more courageous : American war heroes of today, 1942.
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The origins of the cold war, 1941-1947 : a historical problem
with interpretations and documents, 1962.
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The outbreak of the Second World War : design or blunder?,
1962.
- The
Russian version of the Second World War : the history of
the war as taught to Soviet school children, 1976.
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The shadow of Pearl Harbor : political controversy over
the surprise attack, 1941-1946, 1977.
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Summary of the Second World War and it’s consequences
: an alphabetical reference book : persons, places and events;
scientific and military developments; and postwar problems
in preserving peace, 1947.
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The trial of the Germans : an account of the twenty-two
defendants before the International Military Tribunal at
Nuremberg, 1966.
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What happened at Pearl Harbor?, 1958.
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When the saboteurs came : the Nazi sabotage plot against
America in World War II, 1967.
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The world since 1919, 1954.
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World War II [filmstrip], 1972.
Consider
Adding Titles Like These:
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Always remember me : how one family survived World War II,
2005. Grades 2-4. ISBN 0689869207
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B-17 flying legend [videorecording], 2004. Grades 7-up.
ISBN 1568391382
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The Battle of the Somme (The World War Series), 2003. Grades
5-8. ISBN 0739854798
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D-Day and World War II [videorecording] (History Happened
Here Series), 2003. Grades 7-12. #23270
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Don’t you know there’s a war on [sound recording],
2003. Grades 3-6. ISBN 1402532318
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The encyclopedia of World War II : a political, social,
and military history, 2005. Grades 7-adult. ISBN 1576070956
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The great escape : the most daring allied prison escape
of World War II [videorecording] (Nova Series), 2004. Grades
9-up. ISBN 1593752016
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The home front in World War II (The World War Series), 2003.
Grades 5-8. ISBN 0739860658
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The orphans of Normandy : a true story of World War II told
through drawings by children, 2003. Grades 3-6. ISBN 0689841434
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Pearl Harbor (Witness to History Series), 2004. Grades 6-8.
ISBN 1403445699
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Remember D-Day : the plan, the invasion, survivor stories,
2004. Grades 5-8. ISBN 0792269659
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Remember World War II : kids who survived tell their stories,
2005. Grades 5-8. ISBN 0792271912
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Tapestry of hope : holocaust writing for young people, 2003.
Grades 6-up. ISBN 0887766382
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Voices from the home front : personal experiences of wartime
Britain, 1939-45, 2004. Grades 10-adult. ISBN 0715317083
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When it was our war : a soldier’s wife on the home
front, 2003. Grades 10-adult. ISBN 1565124030
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Wisconsin World War II stories [videorecording] (Series),
2004. Grades 9-up.
- World
War II (Opposing Viewpoints in World History Series), 2004.
Revised edition. Grades 8-up. ISBN 0737725877
- World
War II [videorecording] (Series), 2003. Grades 7-up. ISBN
1585657735
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World War II : an eyewitness history (Facts On File Library
of American History Series), 2003. Grades 9-up. ISBN 0816044848
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World War II D-Day invasion in American history (In American
History Series), 2004. Grades 5-8. ISBN 076602136X
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World War II Home Front (Witness to History Series), 2004.
Grades 6-8. ISBN 1403445710
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World War II : Pacific (Chronicle of America’s Wars
Series), 2004. Grades 6-8. ISBN 0822501384
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World War II : the road to war [videorecording] (America
in the 20th Century Series), 2003. Grades 7-12.
- Yossel
April 19, 1943 : a story of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising,
2003. (graphic novel) Grades 10-adult. ISBN 074347516X
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