Secondary Literature on the Age of the Second World War

This collection includes secondary literature on the themes covered by the Oxford Handbook on Gender, War and the Western World since 1600. We have also added select secondary literature on regions and themes the handbook does not cover. The majority of the texts are in English with some texts in French, German or Russian.

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Beck, Birgit. "Sexual Violence and Its Prosecution by Courts Martial of the Wehrmacht." In A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945, edited by Roger Chickering, Stig Förster and Bernd Greiner, 317-332. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Beck, Birgit. "Sexuelle Gewalt und Krieg: Geschlecht, Rasse und der Nationalsozialistische Vernichtungsfeldzug gegen die Sowjetunion, 1941-1945." In Geschlecht hat Methode: Ansätze und Perspektiven in der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte: Beiträge der 9. Schweizerischen Hitorikerinnentagung 1998, edited by Veronika Aegerter and Schweizerische Historikerinnentagung, 223-234. Zurich: Chronos, 1999.
Beevor, Antony. The Second World War. New York: Back Bay Books, 2013.
Behan, Tom. The Italian Resistance: Fascists, Guerrillas and the Allies. London: Pluto Press, 2009.
Beker, Sonia Pauline. Symphony on Fire: A Story of Music and Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust. New Milford, NJ: Wordsmithy, 2007.
Bellamy, Chris. Absolute War: Soviet Russia in the Second World War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
Benadusi, Lorenzo. The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012.
Benedict, Susan, and Linda Shields. Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The “Euthanasia Programs”. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Benjamin, Thomas. Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007.
Bennett, Judith A., and Angela Wanhalla. Mothers' Darlings of the South Pacific: The Children of Indigenous Women and US Servicemen In New Zealand Journal of History. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2016.
Beorn, Waitman Wade. Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Berenguer, Sara. Entre el Sol y la Tormenta: Revolución, Guerra y Exilio de una Mujer Libre. 2nd (expanded) ed. València, Spain: Eixam, 2005.
Bergen, Doris. War & Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield , 2016.
Bergen, Doris L. "What Do Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Contribute to the Understanding of the Holocaust." In Different Horrors, Same Hell: Gender and the Holocaust, edited by Myrna Goldenberg and Amy H. Shapiro, 16-37. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.
Berger, Thomas U. War, Guilt, and World Politics after World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Berghahn, Volker Rolf. Militarismus: Die Geschichte einer internationalen Debatte. Hamburg: Berg, 1986.
Bergmeier, Horst J. P., and Rainer E. Lotz. Hitler's Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
Berkhoff, Karel C. Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Berkin, Carol R., and Clara Maria Lovett. Women, War, and Revolution. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1980.
Bérubé, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II. 20th Anniversary ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Bessel, Richard. Germany 1945: From War to Peace. New York: HarperCollins, 2009.
Bessel, Richard, and Dirk Schumann. Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Bessner, Ellin. Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II. Toronto: New Jewish Press, 2018.
Best, Geoffrey Francis. Humanity in Warfare: The Modern History of the International Law of Armed Conflicts. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980.
Bieder, Maryellen, and Roberta Johnson. Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Bielby, Clare, and Anna Richards. Women and Death: Women's Representations of Death in German Culture since 1500. Vol. 3. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2010.
Biess, Frank, and Robert G. Moeller. Histories of the Aftermath: The Legacies of the Second World War in Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
Biess, Frank. Homecomings: Returning POWs and the Legacies of Defeat in Postwar Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Biess, Frank. "Men of Reconstruction – The Reconstruction of Men: Returning POWs in East and West Germany, 1945–1955." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 335-359. Oxford; New York: Berg, 2002.
Bird, Jr., William L., and Harry R. Rubenstein. Design for Victory: World War II Posters on the American Home Front. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
Birnie, Lisa Hobbs. In Mania's Memory. [Vancouver]: Read Leaf, 2010.
Black, Jeremy. European Warfare, 1815-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
Black, Jeremy. The Age of Total War, 1860–1945. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010.
Black, Jeremy. The Cold War: A Military History (Black 2015). London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Black, Jeremy. The Holocaust: History and Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.

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