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296.09 GOO      History of Judaism
303.64 REV       Revolutionary Moments in World History 3 vols.
305.409 FRA     Illustrated History of Women: Depression and War: 1930-1959  
305.42 SHA       Defining Documents in World History: Women’s Rights 1429-2017
305.4203 OXF   The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History 4 vols.
305.896 CIV           Civil Rights Movements :Past and Present 2 vols.
327.003 GAL     Encyclopedia of World History: Government 2 vols.
327.1 COL        The Cold War: A Military History
327.1 SCH        The Cold War Reference Guide
335.603 WOR   World Fascism, v. 1
341.2309 SCH  Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations: A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies, and                                  Their Quest for a Peaceful World
341.4 HUM        Great Events from History: Human Rights, Volume 1 1900-1947
341.6 MOR        Days of Judgment
341.6 RIC          Nazi War Criminals
341.6 RIC          Nuremberg Trials
341.6 TUS         The Nuremberg Trial
341.6902 NUR   The Nuremberg Trial
344.7307 CAR   Student’s Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on Education
355.008 BUC     American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm 
355.008 SUT     African Americans at War 2 vols. 
355.0089 WRI   Soldiers of Freedom: An Illustrated History of African Americans in the Armed Forces
355.48 TUC       Battles that Changed History: An Encyclopedia of World Conflict
355.8251 ATO   The Atom Bomb
355.8251 BAG  The First War of Physics: The Secret History of the  Atom Bomb 1939-1949
355.8251 SUL   The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb 
909.0492 BLO   The Jewish World in the Modern Age
909.82 GRE       Great Events from History: The 20th Century 1901-1940
909.82 GRE       Great Events from History: The 20th Century 1941-1970
909.82 GRE       Great Events from History : The 20th century: : Volume III, 1915-1932
940.53 COM       Fighting Words: Competing Voices From World War Two in Europe
940.53 GRO       1942: The Year That Tried Men’s Souls
940.53 NEW       The New Grolier Encyclopedia of World War II
940.53 NEW       The New Grolier Encyclopedia of World War II: The Eastern Front,  v. 5
940.53 WOR       Defining Documents in American History: World War II (1939-1946)
940.5303 AXE     Encyclopedia of World War II
940.5303 WOR   World War II: A Student Encyclopedia
940.5308 GRU    Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
940.530922 GRO The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance that Won World War II
940.5314 HIT       The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
940.5317 REE      Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
940.5317 REE      Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II
940.5318 BAU      A History of the Holocaust
940.5318 COM    The Complete History of the Holocaust
940.5318 FIN       Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival during the Holocaust
940.5318 GIL       Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction
940.5318 GIL       Never Again: A History of the Holocaust
940.5318 GLA     “Life Unworthy of Life:” Racial Phobia and Mass Murder in Hitler’s Germany
940.5318 GOT     Children of the Slaughter: Young People of the Holocaust
940.5318 GOT     Heroes of the Holocaust
940.5318 GRE    After the Holocaust
940.5318 HOL    The Holocaust and History
940.5318 HOL    The Holocaust and World War II Almanac, 3 vols.
940.5318 KER    Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
940.5318 LEV    The Holocaust Causes
940.5318 MOO  The Holocaust: Racism and Genocide
940.5318 NEW  The Nuremberg Laws: Institutionalized Anti-Semitism
940.5318 REE    The Holocaust: A New History
940.5318 RES    Rescue and Resistance: Portraits of the Holocaust
940.5318 SHO   Nazi Propaganda
940.5318 WIS    Hitler and the Holocaust
940.5373 TAK    Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
940.54 DEL        Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
940.54 HOT       Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
940.541 GER     The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End
940.5421 DRE    Remembering D-Day: The Plan, the Invasion, Survivor Stories
940.5421 HAV    World War II: Europe 1939-1943
940.5421 JUK    World War II: The Eastern Front 1941-1945
940.5421 MER   Ivan’s War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
940.5421 VAN   D-Day: The Greatest Invasion, A People’s History
940.542142 HOP D-Day: The World War II Invasion That Changed History
940.54214731 NAG  The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of History
940.5425 BUR     Hiroshima: Birth of the Nuclear Age
940.5425 HAS     Retribution: The Battle for japan, 1944-1945
940.5425 HIR       Hiroshima’s Shadow
940.5425 LAW     Hiroshima: The Story of the First Atom Bomb
940.5425 PAC     The Pacific War Companion From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima
940.5425 SLO     The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945- The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
940.5425 TAK      Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
940.5426 BAR      Pearl Harbor
940.5426 MIL        D-Days in the Pacific
940.5426 SHE      Blossoms in the Wind: Human Legacies of the Kamikaze
940.544952 RIC   Kamikazes
943 BIE                Germany: A Reference Guide From the Renaissance to the Present
943 KIT                Germany
943.086 ALT        The Holocaust, Hitler, and Nazi Germany
943.086 HIS         A History of the Third Reich
943.086 MAC      1938: Hitler’s Gamble
943.086 RIC         Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany
943.086 RIS         The Rise of Nazi Germany
943.086 STA         State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda
943.086092 HIT    Hitler and His Henchman
947.084 GEL         Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe
950.424 SPE         In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia
952.04 DOW         Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
973.917 BEN        When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America

Biography call #s start with 92. The books are shelved alphabetically by last name starting on the portrait wall. Examples:

92 HIR                  Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
92 HIR                  Hirohito: Emperor of Japan
92 HIT                  Multiple Hitler biographies
92 STA                 Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union


 

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