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Melissa Amateis

Novelist and Historian

Novelist and Historian Novelist and Historian

Books and Articles

    Books

    Winner of the 2014 Nebraska Book Award: Nebraska History Category

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    Learn how the Nebraska homefront contributed to the American war effort

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    Two strangers, one small Nebraska town with a dark secret...

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    Articles

    “The Women’s Angle: Women War Correspondents of World War II.” America in WWII (Feb/March 2017), Vol. 12, No. 5.


    “Uncle Sam’s Nazi Reform Schools.” America in WWII (April 2016), Vol 11, No. 6.


    “Fido Goes to War:  The War Dogs of World War II.” America in WWII (April 2015), Vol. 10, No. 6.


    “Enough Food to Feed an Army: How Farmers Kept the GIs Fighting.” America in WWII (October 2013), Vol. 9, No. 3.


    “Enemies in Our Midst.” America in WWII (April, 2013), Vol. 8, No. 6.


    “Before Snoopy: Cartoonist Charles Schulz Goes to War.” America in WWII (December 2012), Vol. 8, No. 4.


    “Artist Under Fire: A GI Paints at the Front.” America in WWII (August 2012), Vol. 8, No. 2.


    “Government Girl: A Nebraska Teen’s FBI Adventures in D.C.” America in WWII (April 2012), Vol. 7, No. 6.


    “Still the Old Marlene: Hollywood at the Fort Robinson Prisoner of War Camp.” Nebraska History (Summer/Fall 2005), Vol. 86, Nos. 2 & 3.


    Contributor, Spies, Wiretaps, and Secret Operations: An Encyclopedia of American Espionage, published by ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA, 2010.


    Contributor, Americans at War: Biographical Dictionary of Americans on the Home Front, published by Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 2005.


    Contributor, Homefront Encyclopedia: World Wars I and II, published by ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA,  2005.


    Benjamin Bean:  Planting, Growing, and Harvesting and Benjamin Bean’s Family Reunion.  Two educational children’s books with accompanying teacher’s guides.

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