Secondary Literature on the Cold War and Wars of Decolonization

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.

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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