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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Gossage, Peter, and Robert Rutherdale. Making Men, Making History: Canadian Masculinities across Time and Place. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2018.
Gray, Chris Hables. Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict. New York: Guilford Press, 1997.
Groot, Gerard J. de, and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird. A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2000.
Gruhzit-Hoyt, Olga. A Time Remembered: American Women in the Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1999.
Guillemot, François. Des Vietnamiennes dans la Guerre Civile: L'Autre Moitié de la Guerre, 1945-1975. Paris: Les Indes savantes, 2014.
Hafeneger, Benno, Michael Fritz, Peter Krahulec, Ralf Thaetner, and Michael Buddrus. Ein Lesebuch zur Kriegsbegeisterung junger Männer. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel.
Hagemann, Karen, and Sonya Michel. Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Hagemann, Karen, Stefan Dudink, and Sonya O. Rose. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hall, Mitchell K. The Vietnam War. Cambridge and New York: Routledge, 2018.
Hallward, Maia Carter. Struggling for a Just Peace: Israeli and Palestinian Activism in the Second Intifada. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2011.
Hardy, Michel Serge. De la morale au moral des troupes ou l'histoire des B.M.C. 1918-2004. Panazol, France: Lavauzelle, 2004.
Harrington, Carol. Politicization of Sexual Violence: From Abolitionism to Peacekeeping. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010.
Harsch, Donna. Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Hartmann, Anja, and Heuser, Beatrice. War, Peace, and World Orders in European History. London: Routledge, 2001.
Hasso, Frances Susan. Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Hautreux, François-Xavier. La Guerre d'Algérie des harkis, 1954–1962. Paris: Perrin, 2013.
Hayes, Paddy. Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2018.
Healey, Dan. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018.
Heberle, Mark. Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publications, 2009.
Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Heineman, Elizabeth D. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2011.
Helgren, Jennifer. American Girls and Global Responsibility: A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2017.
Herf, Jeffrey. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Herren, Madeleine. Internationale Organisationen seit 1865: Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen Ordnung. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009.
Herzog, Dagmar. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Herzog, Dagmar. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Herzog, Dagmar. Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth Century History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Hey, Barbara, Cécile Huber, and Karin Maria Schmidlechner. Krieg, Geschlecht und Gewalt. Graz: Leykam, 1999.
Higate, Paul R. Military Masculinities: Identity and the State. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
Higman, Barry William. A Concise History of the Caribbean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Hillman, Elizabeth Lutes. Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court-Martial. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Hilsum, Lindsey. In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991. London: Abacus, 1994.
Hodgson, Godfrey. The Myth of American Exceptionalism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Höhn, Maria. GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Hohrath, Daniel, and Sönke Neitzel. Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert In Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. The German Atrocities in the War of 1870/71 Using the Example of the Bavarians. Paderborn, Germany: Schöningh, 2008.
Hollihan, Kerrie Logan. Reporting under Fire: 16 Daring Women War Correspondents and Photojournalists In Women of action; Variation: Women of action (Chicago, Ill.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014.

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