Books and Memoirs

Berezhkov, Valentin. At Stalin’s Side: His Interpreter’s Memoirs from the Battlefields of World War II to the Kremlin. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/atstalinsside00vmbe. Carol Pub. Group, 1994.

Butler, Susan, ed. My Dear Stalin: The Complete Correspondence of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph V. Stalin. Yale University Press, 2006

Churchill, Winston. The Hinge of Fate. Vol. 4 of The Second World War. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.460821, Cassel &Co. Ltd,

Chuev, Feliks. Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/molotovremembers0000chue/page/n6/mode/1up. I.R. Dee, 1993

Dönitz, Karl. Memoirs: Ten Years and Twenty Days. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/memoirstenyears000doni_v4j0. Frontline Books, 2012.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/ateasestoriesite00eise_0. Eastern Acorn Press, 1981.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Simon and Schuster, 1994.

Miller, Merle. Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/ikesolidier0000unse. Putnam’s Sons, 1987

van der Vat, Dan. The Atlantic Campaign: World War II’s Great Struggle at Sea. Accessed at https://archive.org/details/atlanticcampaign00vand/page/n5/mode/2up. Harper and Row, 1988.

Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994/1995.

Smithsonian: World War II. DK, 2015.

Primary Sources

The Morton Country News, https://www.newspapers.com/image/874739030/?match=1&terms=%2234th%20infantry%22 

The Rock Island Argus https://www.newspapers.com/image/547895051/?match=1&terms=%22Milburn%20Henke%22  

Evening Star (read from “speak highly of fitness” sub-heading) https://www.newspapers.com/image/868258547/ 

The Winona Daily News (Henke’s nickname to his father and girlfriend is Dinke) https://www.newspapers.com/image/546233450/?match=1&terms=%22Milburn%20Henke%22 

Jackson Citizen Patriot https://www.newspapers.com/image/1163573653/?match=1&terms=%22Milburn%20Henke%22 

Historical Websites, Museums, and Research Organizations

• American Battle Monuments Commission / Eisenhower-related historical resources. “Eisenhowers.” https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/eisenhowers

• Cape May Magazine. “The USS Jacob Jones.” https://www.capemaymag.com/feature/the-uss-jacob-jones/

• Eisenhower Foundation. “Ike’s Life: Clouds of War.” https://eisenhowerfoundation.net/ikes-life/clouds-war

• German History in Documents and Images. “Europe at the Beginning of December 1941.” https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/nazi-germany-1933-1945/europe-at-the-beginning-of-december-1941

• History Ireland. “January 26.” https://historyireland.com/january-26/

• HistoryLink. Historical resource on Dwight D. Eisenhower. https://www.historylink.org/File/9199

• Imperial War Museums. “A 5-Minute History of Arctic Convoys.” https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/second-world-war/a-5-minute-history-of-arctic-convoys

• Miller Center, University of Virginia. “Dwight D. Eisenhower: Life Before the Presidency.” https://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/life-before-the-presidency

• Minnesota Military & Veterans Museum. Article on the first American soldier to arrive in Europe during World War II. https://www.mnvetmuseum.org/featured-veterans/blog-post-title-one-2cpnw-fyabn-xcy72

• National WWII Museum. “American Soldiers Arrive in the United Kingdom in 1942.” https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/american-soldiers-arrive-united-kingdom-1942

• National WWII Museum. “First Washington Conference (Arcadia).” https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/first-washington-conference-arcadia

• National WWII Museum. “Lend-Lease and the Eastern Front.” https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/lend-lease-eastern-front

• National WWII Museum. “United Nations Declaration, 1942.” https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/united-nations-declaration-1942

• National Security Agency. “Ultra and the Battle of the Atlantic.” https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/Ultra.pdf

• U.S. Army / Educational Resources Information Center. Historical study on the U.S. Army and World War I tank training. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED469557.pdf

• U.S. Naval / USS Jacob Jones Memorial. “The Story.” https://www.jacobjonesmemorial.org/the-story

• Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine. Article on Dwight D. Eisenhower’s early life. https://tpwmagazine.com/archive/2003/feb/ed_3/

• Zinn Education Project. “Bonus Army Attacked.” https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonus-army-attacked/