Background reading for A separate Peace
Short video from the History Channel on the American homefront in WWII:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aRVVae2i_c
On the experience of families on the homefront:
https://www.pbs.org/thewar/at_home_family.htm
A more detailed essay—a book review—about schools during WW2:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xmFNVDeOOrPRLCIMGf9aqPvUuPUQM-Ts/view?usp=sharing
An essay written by John Knowles in 1995 about his life at Exeter, the school on which his novel is based":
https://libguides.exeter.edu/c.php?g=440360&p=3001740
Essays from The Exeter Bulletin, the school publication where Knowles attended school during WW2, about life at Exeter during the 1940s:
https://libguides.exeter.edu/c.php?g=440360&p=3076076