Litoff, Judy Barrett

Overview

Works:	30 works in 121 publications in 2 languages and 8,905 library holdings
Genres:	Personal correspondence History Biographies Records and correspondence Personal narratives‡vAmerican Personal narratives Dictionaries Biography Academic theses Bibliography
Roles:	Author, Editor, Scientific advisor, Other
Classifications:	D810.W7, B

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Judy Barrett Litoff

Miss you : the World War II letters of Barbara Wooddall Taylor and Charles E. Taylor by Barbara Wooddall Taylor( )

8 editions published between 1990 and 2013 in English and held by 1,474 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A rich selection of a couple's wartime letters

Since you went away : World War II letters from American women on the home front by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

17 editions published between 1991 and 1995 in English and held by 1,064 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Drawn from a large archive of wartime correspondence, Since You Went Away collects hundreds of letters written by women of all backgrounds and ages from all over the United States: from Midwestern farms to the Hawaiian Islands, from young girls to anxious mothers. The letters are sometimes touching, sometimes anguished, and always packed with intimate glimpses of the World War II era. With men on the frontlines, women took to repairing cars, balancing budgets, and responding with imagination to all kinds of hardships and wartime shortages ("I stopped at the Piggly Wiggly but could not get fresh meat of any kind, so found that Spam fried in butter made a very tasty Easter dinner."). An entire section is devoted to courtship, so much of which took place through the mail, and another chapter concentrates on letters written by women about their experiences at work ("The more I see of war plants the more I believe that they're dragging this damn war out as long as possible on purpose...here it seems as tho' they have so much money they don't know what to do with it."). Nor does this collection spare the pain women felt upon learning about the loss of their husbands, lovers, or sons. A pictorial essay gives readers a further window into the war, displaying images, cartoons, and posters. One poster reads: "Be With Him at Every Mail Call," giving an idea of just how important letters were to the men and women of this time

An American heroine in the French Resistance : the diary and memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake by Virginia d' Albert-Lake( )

15 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and held by 915 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Born in Ohio and raised in Florida, Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d'Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they joined the Resistance. Defying gender stereotypes, Virginia put her life in jeopardy as she sheltered downed airmen. Her refusal to reveal secrets while a prisoner of war saved many lives, and when Free French and Allied forces finally liberated her in 1945, she weighed 76 pounds, 50 pounds under her normal weight."

We're in this war, too : World War II letters from American women in uniform by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

8 editions published between 1994 and 2000 in English and held by 896 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The letters of women who served during World War II, from Army nurses at Pearl Harbor to caring for victims of concentration camps

American midwives, 1860 to the present by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

9 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 851 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hebammen / USA / Geschichte

Fighting fascism in Europe : the World War II letters of an American veteran of the Spanish Civil War by Lawrence Cane( )

10 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 797 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"This book is a different kind of war story: both a powerful chronicle of life in battle and a unique portrait of courage fueled by a life-long passion for political justice." "Cane's fight for freedom began well before D-Day. In 1937, he joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was wounded fighting for democracy in Spain. In 1942, at the age of 30, he enlisted in the new war against fascism. As an officer with the 238th Engineer Combat Battalion, he went ashore on Utah Beach to clear mines, destroy fortifications, and open roads from Normandy to the Siegfried Line. Of the 400 American veterans of the Spanish Civil War in World War II, Cane was the only one to go ashore with the assault wave on D-Day." "After the war, Lawrence Cane was active in civil rights and peace causes until his death in 1976. Discovered in 1995 by his son David, his letters are not only classic accounts of war and unforgettable expressions of love for family. They are the fiercely patriotic words of a left wing, working class New York Jew (and one-time Communist Party member) who knew exactly why we fought - to create a better world by destroying all forms of fascism one battle at a time."--BOOK JACKET

American women in a world at war : contemporary accounts from World War II by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

12 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 670 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This title brings together twenty-five writings by women who share their rich and varied World War II experiences, from serving in the military to working on the home front to preparing for the postwar world. By providing evidence of their active and resourceful roles in the war effort as workers, wives, and mothers, these women offer eloquent testimony that World War II was indeed everybody's war. Litoff and Smith combine pieces by well-known writers, such as Margaret Culkin Banning and Nancy Wilson Ross, with important-but largely forgotten-personal accounts by ordinary women living in extraordinary times. -- Publisher description

The American midwife debate : a sourcebook on its modern origins by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

7 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 498 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Hebamme / USA

European immigrant women in the United States : a biographical dictionary( Book )

4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 409 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

An American Heroine in the French Resistance : the Diary and Memoir of Virginia D'Albert-Lake by Judy Barrett Litoff( )

1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This fascinating book tells the remarkable story of an ordinary American woman's heroism in the French Resistance. Virginia Roush fell in love with Philippe d'Albert-Lake during a visit to France in 1936; they married soon after. In 1943, they both joined the Resistance, where Virginia put her life in jeopardy as she sheltered downed airmen and later survived a Nazi prison camp. After the war, she stayed in France with Philippe, and was awarded the Légion d'Honneur and the Medal of Honor. She died in 1997. Judy Barrett Litoff brings together two rare documents: Virginia's diary of wartime France

What kind of world do we want? : American women plan for peace( Book )

4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 358 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dear boys : World War II letters from a woman back home by Keith Frazier Somerville( Book )

3 editions published between 1991 and 2010 in English and held by 300 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Dear poppa : the World War II Berman family letters( Book )

3 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 162 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

David, Betsy, and Sammy Berman were nine, six, and four years old in May 1943 when the U.S. Army sent their father, Dr. Reuben Berman, to Europe. Over the next two and a half years, the children regularly gathered around their mother, Isabel Berman, in their Minneapolis home while she typed exactly what they wanted to say to their father. This collection of more than 340 letters, selected from more than a thousand exchanged by the Berman family via V-mail, captures the anxiety and loss that children experienced when their fathers left for war

Dancing with colonels : a young woman's adventures in wartime Turkey : letters by Marjorie Havreberg( Book )

1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 102 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Midwives in America, 1870-1930 by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

4 editions published in 1975 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Bryant College goes to war by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 12 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Bryant College Service Club was formed in March 1942 by Bryant students for Bryant alumni serving their country during World War II. Its purpose was to send monthly packages of cigarettes, candy, cookies, letters, and knitted articles to Bryant men and women serving in the U.S. military. The club also sold war stamps and bonds and conducted first aid classes. When the club was formed there were about 80 Bryant men and women deployed throughout the world. Over a 3 year period this number grew to over 500 Bryant alumni/ae engaged in World War II. The nearly 1,400 letters received by the Bryant College Service Club from 1942 to 1945 were arranged in four scrapbooks, probably under the aegis of Miss Blaney, who was Director of the club in addition to her duties as Publicity Director and Director of Placement during this time

Colour of war. the american story by Scott Pearson( Visual )

1 edition published in 2004 in French and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Documentaires over de Tweede Wereldoorlog aan de hand van filmbeelden in kleur uit archieven en van particulieren, brieven en dagboekfragmenten

Recognition : a source book on working women by Hal Litoff( Book )

1 edition published in 1974 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

American midwives, <1860>*eighteen sixty* to the present by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

1 edition published in 1978 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Biographical dictionnaries of minority women. 3 European immigrant women in the United States : a biographical dictionary by Judy Barrett Litoff( Book )

1 edition published in 1994 in French and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide