HISTORY 153
WARFARE IN THE WESTERN WORLD
Van Ells, Fall 2004
SUPPLEMENTARY
In addition to your assigned readings in the textbooks, students are also expected to read the following supplementary materials. Some are primary sources - items generated during a specific period in history - such as letters, diaries, and government records. These are the kinds of materials historians use when they conduct their research. Other items are secondary sources - items written after historical events have transpired.
2. Dave Grossman, "'Hidden Wounds': On Killing in Combat," VFW Magazine, August 2003
3. Xenophon, “The Spartan War Machine”
4. Josephus’s account of the Roman Army in the First Century C.E.
5. Letters written by Roman soldiers
6. The Crusaders Journey to Constantinople: Collected Accounts
7. Account of the Battle of Hastings, 1066
8. Jean Froissart on the Hundred Years War
9. Niccolo Machiavelli, Excerpts from The Prince
10. An Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
11. Samuel de Champlain introduces firearms to native warfare, 1609
12. Sarah Osborn Recollects Her Experiences in the Revolutionary War
13. General Washington’s Order on Profanity, 1776
15. “Watch on the Rhine,” 1870
16. Stephen Crane, Red Badge of Courage, Ch. 5
17. “Fiend in Gray,” Washington Post, 1 June 2003
18.
Correspondence
between
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Czar Nicholas II (“Willy-Nicky” telegrams)
19.
Wilfred Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
20. New York Times describes the “Nanking Massacre”
21. A Japanese Soldier Describes the Horrors of Guadalcanal
22. “Deafening, bloody battle”: Clayton Chipman describes landing on Iwo Jima, 1945
23. “I Saw the Walking Dead”: A Black Sergeant Remembers Buchenwald
28.
John
Resch, "Continental Army Veterans: From Outcasts to Icons," VFW Magazine, June-July 2002
29.
Mark D. Van
Ells, "Stigmatized by Wounds of War," VFW
Magazine, August 2002
