Women's Autobiographies on the Cold War and Wars of Decolonization

This bibliography focuses on women's autobiographies, diaries and memoirs (as well as a few letter connections). These authors participated in and/or lived through various, Western armed conflict and wrote about their experiences in English, French, German or Russian.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • Cold War (1946–91)
  • Arab-Israeli Conflicts (1947–)
  • War of Indonesian Independence (1945–49)
  • Korean War (1950–53)
  • African Wars for Independence (1952–)
  • Algerian War (1954–62)
  • Indochina Wars (1946–79)

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Westad, Odd Arne. "The Cold War and the International History of the Twentieth Century." In The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Origins, edited by Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad, 1-19. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Cold War: A World History. New York: Basic Books, 2017.
Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Westheider, James. "African Americans and the Vietnam War." In A Companion to the Vietnam War, edited by Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco, 333-347. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002.
Westrate, Michael T. Living Soviet in Ukraine from Stalin to Maidan: Under the Falling Red Star in Kharkiv. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016.
Wette, Wolfram. Der Krieg des kleinen Mannes: Eine Militärgeschichte von unten. München: Piper, 1992.
Wexler, Sanford. The Vietnam War: An Eyewitness History. Oxford and New York: Facts on File, 1992.
Wildermuth, Mark E. "Women and Western Films in the Cold War." In Feminism and the Western in Film and Television, 75-110. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Wilford, Rick, and Robert L. Miller. Women, Ethnicity and Nationalism: The Politics of Transition. London: Routledge, 1998.
Wilkins, Heidi. Talkies, Road Movies and Chick Flicks: Gender, Genre and Film Sound in American Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Willbanks, James H. America's Heroes: Medal of Honor Recipients from the Civil War to Afghanistan. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Willson, Perry R. Women in Twentieth-Century Italy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Wilson, Elizabeth. Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968. London: Tavistock, 1980.
Wingate, Jennifer. Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America’s World War I Memorials In H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2013.
Wittner, Lawrence S. Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.
Wolfgram, Mark. Getting History Right: East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2003.
Woloch, Nancy. Women and the American Experience. 5th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2006.
Writers, Zimbabwe Women. Women of Resilience. Harare, Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Women Writers, 2000.
Yi, Im-ha. Frauen, erstanden aus dem Krieg: Koreakrieg und Gender. St. Ottilien: EOS Verlag, 2007.
Young, Marilyn B., and Robert Buzzanco. A Companion to the Vietnam War In A Companion to the Vietnam War. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
Young, Robert J. C. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
Young, Allan. The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Young, Peter, and Peter Jesser. The Media and the Military: From the Crimea to Desert Strike. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.
Young, Marilyn B., John J. Fitzgerald, and Tom A. Grunfeld. The Vietnam War: A History in Documents. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Zahra, Tara. The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe's Families after World War II. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Zeinert, Karen. The Valiant Women of the Vietnam War. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 2000.

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