Course Bibliography and reading list:

Books titles that are in red are available in the ISP library. Those in blue are out of print or difficult to find. For those who have a real interest in some of the out of print texts, I recommend searching abebooks.com. Books with asterisks are personal favorites. In addition to the texts below, see Czech history websites and suggested videos.

*Applebaum, Anne (2003). Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps. Allen Lane, London.

Baker, L. (1978). Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews. MacMillan Publishing Co. (a very good section on his time in Terezin).

Bauer, Yehuda (2001). Rethinking the Holocaust. Yale University Press.

* Beevor, Anthony (2002). Berlin: The Downfall 1945. Penguin Books.

Benes, E. (1974). My War Memoirs. Columbia University Press.

* Berkley, G. (1993). Hitler's Gift: The Story of Theresienstadt. Branden Books, Boston.

Bondy, R. (1989). Elder of the Jews: Jakob Edelstein of Theresienstadt. Grove Press, Santa Barbara.

Conquest, Robert (1986). The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. Oxford University Press.

Cotic, M. (1987). The Prague Trial: the first antizionist show trial in the communist bloc. Cornwall Books, New York.

Courtois, S. (1999). The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror and Repression. Harvard University Press.

Crampton, R. J. (1994). Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Routledge Press.

Dean, Martin (2000). Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941 - 44. St. Martin's Press, New York.

Demetz, Peter (1997). Prague in Black and Gold: the History of a City. Penguin Books: London.

* Dubcek, Alexander (1993). Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of the Leader of the Prague Spring. Kodansha International: New York.

Eubank, K. [ed]. (1992). World War II: Roots and Causes. D. C. Heath and Co.

Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation. [eds]. (1994). Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behaviour. Brookline, Mass.

Facing History and Ourselves (2000). Finding a Voice: Musicians in Terezin. Brookline, MA. (CD included).

Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation. [eds]. (2002). Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement. Brookline, Mass.

Friedlander, Henry (1995). The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution. University of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill.

Friedman, S [ed]. (1992). The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich. The University Press of Kentucky.

Funder, Anna (2004). Stasiland; Stories from behind the Berlin Wall. Granta Press, London.

Gellately, Robert (2001). Backing Hitler. Oxford University Press.

Hennessy, Peter (2002). The Secret State: Whitehall and the Cold War. Penguin Books.

* Hilberg, R.(1985). The Destruction of the European Jews. Holmes and Meier Press.

Hoffmann, Peter (1996). The History of the German Resistance 1933 - 1945. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal.

* Hopkirk, Peter (1994). Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring down the British Empire. Kodansha International: New York.

Iggers, Wilma Abeles (1992). The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: A Historical Reader. Wayne State University Press, Detroit.

Jewish Museum Prague (1993). I have not seen a butterfly around here: Children's drawings and poems from Terezin. Prague.

Jones, Lynne (2004). Then they Started Shooting: Growing up in Wartime Bosnia. Belknap Press, Cambridge, Mass.

* Kaes, Anton, Martin Jay & Edward Dimendberg (1994). The Weimar Republic Sourcebook. University of California Press: Berkeley.

Kaplan, Karel (1987). The Short March: The Communist Takeover of Czechoslovakia 1945 - 1948. C. Hurst & Co.: London.

Karas, J. (1985). Music in Terezin 1941 - 1945. Pendragon Press, Stuyvesant, New York.

Keen, S. (1991). Faces of the Enemy: Reflections of the hostile imagination. Harper Collins.

Kennan, George F. (1968). From Prague After Munich: Diplomatic Papers 1938 - 1940. Princeton University Press.

Kenrick, D & Gratton Puxon. (1995). Gypsies Under the Swastika. University of Hertfordshire Press.

Kershaw, Ian (2000). Hitler: 1936 - 1945 Nemesis. W.W. Norton & Co, London.

Korbel, Josef (1959). The Communist Subversion of Czechoslovakia 1938 - 1948: The Failure of Coexistence. Princeton University Press.

Krizková, M, Kurt Kotouc, & Zdenek Ornest (1995). We are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin. Adventinum Press, Prague.

Lackova, I. (1999). A False Dawn: My life as a gypsy woman in Slovakia. University of Hertfordshire Press.

Lipstadt, D. (1994). Denying the Holocaust. Plume/Penguin Press.

Lebert, Stephan and Norbert (2000). My Father's Keeper: Children of Nazi Leaders - an Intimate History of Damage and Denial. Little, Brown and Co., London.

Lewy, G. (2000). The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies. Oxford University Press.

Loebl, Eugene (1969). Sentenced and Tried: The Stalinist Purges in Czechoslovakia. Elek Books: London.

* Lukes, I. (1996). Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler: the diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s. Oxford University Press.

Lukes, I. & Erik Goldstein [eds]; (1999). The Munich Crisis 1938: Prelude to World War II. Oxford University Press.

Lusane, Clarence (2003). Hitler's Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era. Routledge Press: London.

Luza Radomir (1964). The Transfer of the Sudeten Germans: A Study of Czech - German Relations 1933 - 1962. New York University Press.

MacDonald, C. (1989). The Killing of SS Obergruppenf«hrer Reinhard Heydrich. Macmillan.

* MacDonald, C. & Jan Kaplan. (1994). Prague in the Shadow of the Swastika. Melantrich Press.

* MacMillan, Margaret (2002). Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World. Random House: New York.

Mamatey, Victor & Radomir Luza [eds] (1973). A History of the Czechoslovak Republic. Columbia University Press.

* Mastny, Vojtech (1971). The Czechs under Nazi Rule: The Failure of National Resistance 1939 - 1942. Columbia University Press, New York.

Naimark, Norman (1995). The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation: 1945 - 1949. Belknap Press, Cambridge, Massachusettes.

Neuffer, Elizabeth. (2001). The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda. Picador, New York.

Okey, Robin (2004). The Demise of Communist East Europe: 1989 in Context. Oxford University Press.

Overy, Richard (2001). Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands, 1945. Viking Press, London.

Packard, Jerold M. (1992). Neither Friend nor Foe: The European Neutrals in World War II. FireWord Publishing: Portland, Oregon.

Pelikan, Jiri [ed.] (1971). The Czechoslovak Political Trials, 1950 - 1954. Stanford University Press.

Petropoulos, J. (2000). The Faustian Bargain: The art world in Nazi Germany. Penguin.

Polansky, Paul (1998). Black Silence:The Lety Survivors Speak. G Plus G, Prague.

* Powers, Samantha (2002). A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Basic Books: New York.

Prazmowska, A. (2000). Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War. St. Martin's Press, New York.

Rees, Lawrence (2005). How Mankind Committed the Ultimate Infamy at Auschwitz: A New History. Public Affairs, New York.

Schwertfeger, R (1989). Women of Theresienstadt: Voices from a Concentration Camp. St Martin's Press, New York.

Sereny, Gitta (1974). Into That Darkness. Vintage Press: London. Sereny's interviews with Franz Stangl, Commandant of Treblinka.

*Slavicky, M. (1995). Gideon Klein: A Fragment of Life and Work. Helvetica Tempora Publishers, Prague.

Stankova, Jaroslava, Jiri Stursa, Svatopluk Vodera (1992). Prague: Eleven Centuries of Architecture: A Historical Guide. Pav Press, Prague.

Staub, Ervin (1989). The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and other Group Violence. Cambridge University Press.

Stoessinger, J. (1990). Why Nations Go to War. St. Martin's Press.

* Stoltzfus, N. (1996). Resistance of the Heart: Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany. Rutgers University Press.

Taylor, Richard (1998). Film Propaganda: Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. I. B. Tauris Press, London.

Terezin Memorial (1997). Das Internierungslager für die Deutsche Bevölkerung: Die Kleine Festung Theresienstadt 1945 - 1948. [Theresienstadt 1945 - 1948: Internment Camp for the German Population].

Totten, Sam, William S. Parsons, & Israel Charney [eds]. (1997) Century of Genocide: Eyewitness Accounts and Critical Views. Garden Publishing Inc, London.

Trevor-Roper, Hugh (1995). The Last Days of Hitler. Pan Books: London.

Vrba, R. (1964). I Cannot Forgive. Regent College Publishing, Vancouver.

Warren, Donald (1996). Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, the Father of Hate Radio. The Free Press: New York.

Weissová, H. (1998). Draw what you see: Drawings of the Children of Theresienstadt. Wallstein Press, Göttingen.

Welch, David (2001). Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933 - 1945. I. B. Tauris Press: London.

White, Lewis M. [ed.] (2000). On All Fronts: Czechoslovaks in World War II. Columbia University Press: New York.

Zapruder, Alexandra (2002). Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust. Yale University Press.

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