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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Heidler, David S., and Jeanne T. Heidler. Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Modern America: From the Indian Wars to the Vietnam War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007.
Heineman, Elizabeth D. Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 2011.
Heineman, Elizabeth D. What Difference Does a Husband Make? Women and Marital Status in Nazi and Postwar Germany. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
Heinemann, Marlene E. Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Heiskanen, Anu. "A Useless War Memory: Erotic Fraternization, German Soldiers, and Gender in Finland." In The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Europe, edited by Sylvia Paletschek and Sylvia Schraut, 204-220. Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, 2008.
Helm, Sarah. Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2015.
Henderson, Margaret. Dear Allies: A Story of Women in Monklands and Besieged Leningrad. Coatbridge, Scotland: Monklands District Libraries, 1988.
Henry, Clarissa, and Marc Hillel. Of Pure Blood. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
Herbert, Ulrich. Hitler's Foreign Workers: Enforced Foreign Labor in Germany under the Third Reich. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Herf, Jeffrey. Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997.
Herf, Jeffrey. The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
Herren, Madeleine. Internationale Organisationen seit 1865: Eine Globalgeschichte der internationalen Ordnung. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2009.
Herzog, Dagmar. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Herzog, Dagmar. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Herzog, Dagmar. Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth Century History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Hey, Barbara, Cécile Huber, and Karin Maria Schmidlechner. Krieg, Geschlecht und Gewalt. Graz: Leykam, 1999.
Higate, Paul R. Military Masculinities: Identity and the State. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.
Higman, Barry William. A Concise History of the Caribbean. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Higonnet, Margaret Randolph, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, and Margaret Collins Weitz. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Higonnet, Margaret R., and Patrice L. R. Higonnet. "The Double Helix." In Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars, edited by Margaret R. Higonnet, Jenson, Jane, Sonya Michel and Margaret Collins Weitz, 31-48. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933-1945. New York: Aaron Asher Books, 1992.
Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.
Hildebrand, Vera. Women at War: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani of Jhansi Regiment. Noida, Uttar Pradesh: Harper Collins Publishers India, 2016.
Hillel, Marc. Lebensborn e.V.: Im Namen der Rasse. Wien: Paul Zsolnay Verlag, 1975.
Hillman, Elizabeth L., and Kate Walsham. "Rape, Reform, and Reaction: Gender and Sexual Violence in the U.S. Military." The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military (2017): 287-302.
Hinton, James. Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War: Continuities of Class. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Hipkins, Danielle, and Gill Plain. War-Torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II. Oxford, England: Peter Lang, 2007.
Hitchcock, William I. The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe. New York: Free Press, 2008.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Hobsbawm, Eric J. The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914–1991. London: Abacus, 1994.
Hodges, Patricia A. M. From Home Sister to Second Lieutenant: Army Dietitians in World Wars I and II. Charlotte, NC: Catawba Publishing Company, 2007.
Hodgson, Godfrey. The Myth of American Exceptionalism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
Hoffman, Peter J., and Thomas G. Weiss. Humanitarianism, War, and Politics: Solferino to Syria and Beyond. New Millennium Books In International StudiesNew millennium books in international studies. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Hoffmann, Joachim. Die Ostlegionen 1941–1943: Turkotataren, Kaukasier und Wolgafinnen im deutschen Heer. Freiburg im Breisgau: Rombach, 1976.
Höhn, Maria. GIs and Fräuleins: The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Hohrath, Daniel, and Sönke Neitzel. Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert In Kriegsgreuel: Die Entgrenzung der Gewalt in kriegerischen Konflikten vom Mittelalter bis ins 20. Jahrhundert. The German Atrocities in the War of 1870/71 Using the Example of the Bavarians. Paderborn, Germany: Schöningh, 2008.

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