Secondary Literature on the Age of the Second 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.

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Auerbach, Jonathan, and Russ Castronovo. The Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Auga, Ulrike, and Christina von Braun. Gender in Conflicts: Palestine, Israel, Germany. Münster, Germany: Lit, 2006.
Auger, Martin F. Prisoners of the Home Front: German POWs and "Enemy Aliens" in Southern Quebec, 1940-46. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006.
Aulich, James. War Posters: Weapons of Mass Communication. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007.
Baade, Christina. "Between the Lines: "Lili Marlene," Sexuality, and the Desert War." In Music, Politics, and Violence, edited by Susan Fast and Kip Pegley, 83-103. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2012.
Baade, Christina L. Victory through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Baader, Benjamin Maria, Paul Frederick Lerner, and Sharon Gillerman. Jewish Masculinities: German Jews, Gender, and History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.
Baechler, Jean, and Marion Trévisi. La guerre et les femmes. Paris: Hermann, 2018.
Baer, Elizabeth R., and Myrna Goldenberg. Experience and Expression: Women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003.
Bahney, Jennifer Bowers. Betrayer's Waltz: The Unlikely Bond between Marie Valerie of Austria and Hitler's Princess-Spy. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2017.
Bailey, Beth, and David Farber. First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii. New York: Free Press, 1992.
Bak, Sofie Lene. Nothing to Speak of: Wartime Experiences of the Danish Jews 1943-1945. Copenhagen: Danish Jewish Museum, 2011.
Baldoli, Claudia, Andrew Knapp, and Richard Overy. Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe, 1940-1945. London: Continuum, 2011.
Ballard, Jack Stokes. The Shock of Peace: Military and Economic Demobilization after World War II. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983.
Bandhauer-Schöffmann, Irene, and Duchen, Claire. Nach dem Krieg: Frauenleben und Geschlechterkonstruktionen in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Herbolzheim: Centaurus, 2000.
Bankier, David. The Germans and the Final Solution: Public Opinion under Nazism. Cambridge, MA: B. Blackwell, 1996.
Baranowski, Shelley. Nazi Empire: German Colonialism and Imperialism from Bismarck to Hitler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth. Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018.
Barrett, Duncan, and Nuala Calvi. GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love. New York: William Morrow, 2014.
Barros, Andrew, and Martin Thomas. The Civilianization of War: The Changing Civil-Military Divide, 1914-2014. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Bartig, Kevin. Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Bartov, Omer, Atina Grossmann, and Mary Nolan. Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century. New York: New Press, 2002.
Bartov, Omer. Germany's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Bartov, Omer. Hitler's Army: Soldiers, Nazis, and War in the Third Reich. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Bartov, Omer. Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Bartov, Omer. Murder in our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Bartov, Omer, and Eric Weitz. Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
Bartov, Omer. The Holocaust: Origins, Implementation, Aftermath. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2015.
Basso, Matthew. Meet Joe Copper: Masculinity and Race on Montana's World War II Home Front. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Basso, Matthew, and John Perry Christensen. The Way Utah Worked. Salt Lake City, UT: Utah Humanities, 2017.
Batinic, Jelena. Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Baumeister, Martin, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum. "If You Tolerate This...": The Spanish Civil War in the Age of Total War. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008.
Baumel-Schwartz, Judith Tydor. Perfect Heroes: The World War II Parachutists and the Making of Israeli Collective Memory. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010.
Bayly, Christopher, and Tim Harper. Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire. London: Allen Lane, 2007.
Bean, Dalea. Jamaican Women and the World Wars: On the Front Lines of Change. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Beck, Birgit. "Rape: The Military Trials of Sexual Crimes Committed by Soldiers in the Wehrmacht, 1939-1944." In Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 255-274 . Oxford: Berg, 2002.

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