Understanding the literature of World War II: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents

The combatants: an analysis of Martha Gelhorn's A stricken field, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Norman Mailer's The naked and the dead, James Jones' From here to eternity, Irwin Shaw's The Young lions, and the poems of Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, and Randall Jarrell

The home front: analysis of Bette Green's Summer of my German soldier and David Guterson's Snow falling on cedars

Occupation, resistance, and espionage: an analysis of John Steinbeck's The moon is down, Jack Higgins' The eagle has landed, and Paul West's The very rich hours of Count von Stauffenberg and Rat man of Paris

The Holocaust: an analysis of William Styron's Sophie's choice and Elie Wiesel's Night

The atomic bomb: an analysis of John Hersey's Hiroshima.