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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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.
Frühstück, Sabine. Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
Frühstück, Sabine. "Sexuality and Sexual Violence." In The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Economy, Society and Culture, edited by Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze, 422-446. Vol. 3: Total War: Economy, Society and Culture. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Fuchs, Esther. Women and the Holocaust: Narrative and Representation. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.
Furedi, Frank. "The Demobilized African Soldier and the Blow to White Prestige." In Guardians of Empire: The Armed Forces of the Colonial Powers c. 1700–1964, edited by David Killingray and David Omissi, 179-197. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999.
Fussell, Paul. Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
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, Karen. Shaping a Global Women's Agenda: Women's NGOs and Global Governance, 1925-85. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2010.
Gebhardt, Miriam. Als die Soldaten kamen: Die Vergewaltigung deutscher Frauen am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2015.
Gebhardt, Miriam. Crimes Unspoken: The Rape of German Women at the End of the Second World War. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017.
Geheran, Michael. Comrades Betrayed: Jewish World War I Veterans under Hitler. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020.
Gellately, Robert. Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Gellately, Robert, and Nathan Stoltzfus. Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Gellately, Robert, and Ben Kiernan. The Specter of Genocide: Mass Murder in Historical Perspective. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Gerhalter, Li, and Christa Hämmerle. Krieg-Politik-Schreiben: Tagebücher von Frauen (1918-1950). Weimar: Böhlau Verlag, 2015.
Gerlach, Christian. Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Geyer, Michael. "Amerikanisches Totengedenken: Privatisierung des Leides und Universalisierung der Toten." In Gefallenengedenken im globalen Vergleich. Nationale Tradition, politische Legitimation und Individualisierung der Erinnerung, edited by Manfred Hettling and Jörg Echternkamp, 487-509. Munich: Oldenbourg, 2013.
Geyer, Michael. "Eine Kriegsgeschichte, die vom Tod spricht." In Physische Gewalt: Studien zur Geschichte der Neuzeit, edited by Alf Lüdtke and Thomas Lindenberger, 136-161. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1995.
Geyer, Michael. "The Militarization of Europe, 1914-1945." In The Militarization of the Western World, edited by John R. Gillis, 65-102. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E. Music and International History in the Twentieth Century. New York: Berghahn Books, 2015.
Gilbert, Joanne D. Women of Valor: Polish Resisters to the Third Reich. East Stroudsburg, PA: Gihon River Press, 2014.
Gildea, Robert. Fighters in the Shadows: A New History of the French Resistance. London: Faber & Faber, 2015.
Gildea, Robert, Olivier Wieviorka, and Anette Warring. Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: Daily Life in Occupied Europe. Oxford, UK; New York: Berg, 2006.
Gillespie, Marie, and Alban Webb. Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012). New York: Routledge, 2013.
Gillespie, Richard, and Frédéric Volpi. Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics. London: Routledge, 2018.
Gillis, John R. The Militarization of the Western World. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Ginio, Ruth. French Colonialism Unmasked: The Vichy Years in French West Africa. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Ginsborg, Paul. Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014.
Glantz, David M. Colossus Reborn: The Red Army at War, 1941-1943. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.
Glass, Charles. The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II. New York: Penguin, 2013.
Glassord, Sarah, and Amy Shaw. Making the Best of It: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the Second World War. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2020.
Gledhill, Christine, and Jillian Swanson. Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality, and British Cinema in the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

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