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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Schaffer, Ronald. America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Scheina, Robert. Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Professional Soldier, 1900-2001. Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Culture of Defeat: On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2003.
Schloesser, Stephen. Jazz Age Catholicism: Mystic Modernism in Postwar Paris, 1919-1933. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
Schneider, Carl J., and Dorothy Schneider. Into the Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I. New York: Viking, 1991.
Schönberger, Bianca. "Motherly Heroines and Adventurous Girls: Red Cross Nurses and Women Army Auxiliaries in the First World War." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 87-113. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Schüler-Springorum, Stefanie. "Flying and Killing Military Masculinity in German Pilot Literature, 1914–1939." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth Century Germany, edited by Stefanie Schüler-Springorum and Karen Hagemann, 205-232. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Schulte, Regina. Die verkehrte Welt des Krieges: Studien zu Geschlecht, Religion und Tod. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1998.
Schulte, Regina. "The Sick Warrior's Sister: Nursing During the First World War." In Gender Relations in German History: Power, Agency, and Experience from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, edited by Lynn Abrams and Elizabeth Harvey, 121-141. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
Schwartz, Barry. Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Schwartz, Agatha. Gender and Modernity in Central Europe. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2010.
Scott, caroline. Holding the Home Front: The Women's Land Army in the First World War. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2017.
Scully, Richard. British Images of Germany: Admiration, Ambivalence, Antagonism, 1860-1914. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Secunda, Eugene, and Terence P. Moran. Selling War to America: From the Spanish American War to the Global War on Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Serebrennikov, T. Woman in the Soviet Union. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1943.
Sharp, Ingrid, and Matthew Stibbe. Aftermaths of War: Women's Movements and Female Activists, 1918-1923. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
Sharp, Ingrid, and Matthew Stibbe. Women Activists Between War and Peace: Europe, 1918-1923. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Sheldon, Sayre. Her War Story: Twentieth-Century Women Write About War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Shenk, Gerald E. "Work or Fight!": Race, Gender, and the Draft in World War One. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Sherman, Daniel J. The Construction of Memory in Interwar France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Sherry, Vincent B. The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War In Cambridge companions to literature; Variation: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Sherry, Vincent B. The Great War and the Language of Modernism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Shipton, Elizabeth. Female Tommies: The Frontline Women of the First World War. Stroud, U.K.: History Press, 2014.
Siebrecht, Claudia. The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women's Art of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Sieder, Richard. "Behind the Lines: Working-Class Family Life in Wartime Vienna." In The Upheaval of War: Work and Welfare in Europe, 1914-1918, edited by Wall, Richard and Jay Winter, 109-138. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
SIlver, Kenneth E. Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-garde and the First World War, 1914–1923. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.
Simms, Brendan. Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, from 1453 to the Present. New York: Basic Books/Perseus Books Group, 2013.
Simon-Carrère, Anne. Chanter la Grande Guerre: les poilus et les femmes. Seyssel, France: Champ Vallon, 2014.
Singh, Gajendra. The Testimonies of Indian Soldiers and the Two World Wars: Between Self and Sepoy. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Sivan, Emmanuel, and Jay M. Winter. War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Sjoberg, Laura. Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013.
Skaine, Rosemarie. Women in Combat: A Reference Handbook In Contemporary world issues; Variation: Contemporary world issues. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011.
Slezkine, Yuri, and Sheila Fitzpatrick. In the Shadow of Revolution: Life Stories of Russian Women from 1917 to the Second World War. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Sloboda, Noel. The Making of Americans in Paris: The Autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein In American university studies. Series XXIV, American literature,; v. 77; Variation: American university studies.; Series XXIV,; American literature ;; v. 77. New York: Peter Lang, 2008.
Slotkin, Richard. Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality. New York: H. Holt, 2005.

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