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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Gucciardo, Dorotea, and Megan Howatt. "Sniper Girls and Fearless Heroines: Wartime Representations of Foreign Women in English-Canadian Press, 1941-1943." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 547-564. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Guieu, Jean-Michel. Le rameau et le glaive: Les militants français pour la Société des Nations. Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2008.
Guiomar, Jean-Yves. L'invention de la guerre totale: XVIIIe-XXe siècle. Paris: Félin, 2004.
Guo, Vivienne Xiangwei. Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders In Routledge studies in modern history. London: Routledge, 2019.
Hack, Karl, and Kevin Blackburn. Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia. London: Routledge, 2008.
Hack, Karl, and Kevin Blackburn. "Japanese-Occupied Asia from 1941 to 1945: One Occupier, Many Captivities and Memories." In Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia, edited by Karl Hack and Kevin Blackburn, 1-20. London: Routledge, 2008.
Hacker, Barton C., and Margaret Vining. A Companion to Women's Military History. Leiden: Brill, 2012.
Hacker, Barton C. "Revolutionaries, Regulars, and Rebels: Women and Non-Western Armies Since World War II." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 331-377. Leiden ; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Hafeneger, Benno, Michael Fritz, Peter Krahulec, Ralf Thaetner, and Michael Buddrus. Ein Lesebuch zur Kriegsbegeisterung junger Männer. Frankfurt am Main: Brandes & Apsel.
Hagemann, Karen. ""German Women Help to Win!": Women and the German Military in the Age of World Wars." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 485-511. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Hagemann, Karen, and Sonya Michel. Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
Hagemann, Karen, and Jean H. Quataert. Gendering Modern German History: Rewriting Historiography. New York: Berghahn, 2008.
Hagemann, Karen, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum. Heimat-Front: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege. Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus, 2002.
Hagemann, Karen. "Home/Front: The Military, Violence and Gender Relations in the Age of the World Wars." In Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 1-42. Oxford; New York: Berg, 2002.
Hagemann, Karen, and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum. Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany. Oxford; New York: Berg, 2002.
Hagemann, Karen. "Military, War, and the Mainstreams: Gendering Modern German Military History." In Gendering Modern German History: Themes, Debates, Revisions, edited by Karen Hagemann and Jean H. Quataert, 63-85. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.
Hagemann, Karen, Stefan Dudink, and Sonya O. Rose. The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Hampf, M. Michaela. "Demarkationslinien: Geschlecht, Sexualität und Kampf in der US Army im Zweiten Weltkrieg." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 353-374. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
M. Hampf, Michaela. Release a Man for Combat: The Women's Army Corps during World War II. Cologne: Böhlau, 2010.
Hampton, Ellen. Women of Valor: The Rochambelles on the WWII Front. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Hanson, Edward. The Wandering Princess: Princess Hélène of France, Duchess of Aosta (1871-1951). Gloucestershire: Fonthill Media, 2017.
Hardy, Michel Serge. De la morale au moral des troupes ou l'histoire des B.M.C. 1918-2004. Panazol, France: Lavauzelle, 2004.
Harris, Carol. Women at War: In Uniform, 1939-1945. Thrupp, UK: Sutton, 2003.
Harrison, Mark. The Economics of World War II: Six Great Powers in International Comparison. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Hart, Janet. New Voices in the Nation: Women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Hartmann, Susan M. The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1982.
Hartmann, Anja, and Heuser, Beatrice. War, Peace, and World Orders in European History. London: Routledge, 2001.
Hartnett, Lynne Ann. The Defiant Life of Vera Figner: Surviving the Russian Revolution. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.
Harvey, Elizabeth. "Remembering and Repressing German Women's Recollections of the ‘Ethnic Struggle’ in Occupied Poland during the Second World War." In Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 275-296. Oxford, UK: Berg, 2002.
Harvey, Elizabeth. Women and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanizations. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Hata, Ikuhiko. Comfort Women and Sex in the Battle Zone. Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, 2018.
Hathaway, Henry. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel. United States: 20th Century Fox, 1951.
Hayes, Paddy. Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy Master. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2018.
Healey, Dan. Russian Homophobia from Stalin to Sochi. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2018.
Hedgepeth, Sonja M., and Rochelle G. Saidel. Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press , 2010.
Heer, Hannes, and Klaus Naumann. War of Extermination: The German Military in World War II, 1941–1944. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.

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