Secondary Literature on the Age of First 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.

The most important wars for this period include:

  • First World War (1914–18)
  • Russian Civil War (1917–22)
  • Irish War of Independence and Civil War (1919–23)

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Kordan, Bohdan. Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.
D. Kousoulas, George. Revolution and Defeat: The Story of the Greek Communist Party. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.
Kraft, James. Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Kramer, Alan. Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Krippner, Monica. The Quality of Mercy: Women at War, Serbia, 1915-18. Newton Abbot, UK: David & Charles, 1980.
Krüger, Christine, and Sonja Levsen. War Volunteering in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Second World War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Krumeich, Gerd. Versailles 1919: Ziele, Wirkung, Wahrnehmung. Essen: Klartext, 2001.
Kruse, Wolfgang. Eine Welt von Feinden: Der Große Krieg 1914-1918. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997.
Kühberger, Christoph, and Roman Reisinger. Mascolinità italiane: Italienische Männlichkeiten im 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Logos, 2006.
Kühne, Thomas. Belonging and Genocide: Hitler's Community, 1918-1945. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
Kühne, Thomas. Männergeschichte — Geschlechtergeschichte: Männlichkeit im Wandel der Moderne. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 1996.
Kundrus, Birthe. "Gender Wars: The First World War and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Weimar Republic." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 159-179. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Kutz, Martin. Deutsche Soldaten: Eine Kultur- und Mentalitätsgeschichte. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2006.
Labadie, Jean-Christophe. La Grande Guerre des Bas-Alpins: militaires et civils au front et à l'arrière. Haute-Provence: Archives départementales des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, 2018.
Laband, John. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to Rwandan Genocide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Lacey, Kate. Feminine Frequencies: Gender, German Radio, and the Public Sphere, 1923-1945. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Laffin, John. Women in Battle. London ; New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1967.
Lagerman, Ellen C. Nursing History: New Perspectives, New Possibilities. New York: Teachers College Press, 1983.
Lagorio, Francesca. "Italian Widows of the First World War." In Authority, Identity, and the Social History of the Great War, edited by Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee, 175-198. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1995.
Lake, Marilyn, and Henry Reynolds. What’s Wrong with Anzac? The Militarisation of Australian History. Sydney: University of NSW, 2010.
Langewiesche, Dieter. Reich, Nation, Föderation: Deutschland und Europa. Munich: Beck, 2008.
Le Naour, Jean-Yves, Musée de la Gran de Meaux, and Coédition Somogy. Familles à l'épreuve de la guerre., 2018.
Lee, Janet. War Girls: The First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in the First World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.
Leed, Eric J. No Man's Land: Combat and Identity in World War I. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.
Leese, Peter. Shell Shock: Traumatic Neurosis and the British Soldiers of the First World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Lengel, Edward. Never In Finer Company: The Men of the Great War's Lost Battalion. New York: Da Capo Press, 2018.
Lentz-Smith, Adriane. Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Leonhard, Jörn. Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs. Munich: C.H. Beck, 2014.
Lerner, Paul Frederick. Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Leszczawski-Schwerk, Angelique. ""Töchter des Volkes" und "Stille Heldinnen": Polnische und Ukrainische Legionärinnen im Ersten Weltkrieg." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 179-205. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Levenback, Karen L. Virginia Woolf and the Great War. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

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