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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Foot, John. Italy's Divided Memory. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Forrest, Alan. The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars: The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Forsythe, David P. The Humanitarians: The International Committee of the Red Cross. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Forth, Christopher E., and Bertrand Taithe. French Masculinities: History, Culture, and Politics. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Forth, Christopher E. The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Forty, Adrian, and Susanne Küchler. The Art of Forgetting. Oxford: Berg, 1999.
Foster, Caroline. Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989.
Fox, Paul. The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871-1933 In Modern history of politics and violence. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
François, Etienne, Hannes Siegrist, and Jakob Vogel. Nation und Emotion: Deutschland und Frankreich im Vergleich. 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995.
Franqui-Rivera, Harry. Soldiers of the Nation: Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952 In Studies in war, society and the military. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Frantzen, Allen J. Bloody Good: Chivalry, Sacrifice, and the Great War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Freedman, Lawrence. War. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Frevert, Ute. "Honor, Gender, and Power: The Politics of Satisfaction in Pre-War Europe." In An Improbable War?: The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture before 1914, edited by Holger Afflerbach and David Stevenson, 233-255. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.
Frevert, Ute. Men of Honour: A Social and Cultural History of the Duel. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995.
Frevert, Ute. Militär und Gesellschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1997.
Patrick Fridenson. The French Home Front, 1914-1918. Oxford: Berg, 1992.
Friis, Henning Kristian. Scandinavia: Between East and West. 2nd ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979.
Fritzsche, Peter. Germans into Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Fromkin, David. Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Froula, Christine. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity In Gender and culture; Variation: Gender and culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Fuller, William C. "The Imperial Army." In The Cambridge History of Russia, edited by Dominic Lieven, 530-553. Vol. 3. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Funck, Marcus. "Ready for War? Conceptions of Military Manliness in the Prusso-German Officer Corps before the First World War." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 43-68. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.
Fussell, Paul. The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Gaffney, Kevin J. Kane County: The War Years. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2017.
Gallagher, Jean. The World Wars through the Female Gaze. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.
Garner, Ana, and Karen Slattery. Mobilizing Mother: From Good Mother to Patriotic Mother in World War I. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, 2012.
Garner, Karen. Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's NGOs and Global Governance, 1925-85. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.
Gates, Michael. From the Klondike to Berlin: The Yukon in World War I. Madeira Park, British Columbia: BC Lost Moose, 2017.
Gatrell, Peter. A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia During World War I. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Gatrell, Peter. Russia's First World War: A Social and Economic History. Harlow, UK: Pearson–Longman, 2005.
Gatrell, Peter. "The Epic and the Domestic: Women and War in Russia, 1914-1917." In Evidence, History, and the Great War: Historians and the Impact of 1914-1918, edited by Gail Braybon, 198-215. New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.
Gaul, Anita Talsma. The Women of Southwest Minnesota and the Great War. Marshall, MN: Society for the Study of Local and Regional History, 2018.
Gavin, Lettie. American Women in World War I: They Also Served. Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1997.

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