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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Lanzona, Vina A. Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009.
Larson, Kay C. 'Til I Come Marching Home: A Brief History of American Women in World War II. Pasadena, CA: Minerva Center, 1995.
Laska, Vera. Women in the Resistance and in the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Latzel, Klaus, Franka Maubach, and Silke Satjukow. Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Laurie, Clayton. The Propaganda Warriors: America's Crusade Against Nazi Germany. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1996.
Lawler, Nancy Ellen. Soldiers of Misfortune: Ivoirien Tirailleurs of World War II. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1992.
Lazda, Mara. "The Discourse of Power through Gender in World War II Latvia." In Women and Men at War: A Gender Perspective on World War II and Its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Maren Röger and Ruth Leiserowitz, 59-80. Osnabrück, Germany: Fibre, 2012.
Leasor, James. Singapore: The Battle that Changed the World. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968.
Lerner, Paul Frederick. Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Levi, Erik. Mozart and the Nazis: How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010.
Li, Peter. Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.
Liddington, Jill. "'Wars Will Cease When…': Feminism and Anti-militarism in Britain, 1918–1939." In Twentieth-Century Peace Movements: Successes and Failures, edited by Guido Grunewald and Peter van den Dungen, 81-99. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995.
Liddington, Jill. The Road to Greenham Common: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991.
Lilly, J. Robert. Taken by Force: Rape and American GIs in Europe during World War II. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Lim, Jie-Hyun, and Karen Petrone. Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Linden, Marcel van der, and Gottfried Mergner. Kriegsbegeisterung und mentale Kriegsvorbereitung: Interdisziplinäre Studien. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1991.
Lines, Lisa Margaret. Milicianas: Women in Combat in the Spanish Civil War. Lanham, United States: Lexington Books, 2012.
Linhard, Tabea Alexa. Fearless Women in the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2005.
Linn, Brian McAllister. Guardians of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Pacific, 1902-1940. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
List, Corinna von. Frauen in der Résistance 1940-1944: "Der Kampf gegen die 'Boches' hat begonnen!". Paderborn: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2010.
Litoff, Judy Barrett, and David C. Smith. Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
Lorenz, David Alegre, Miguel Alonso Ibarra, and Javier Rodrigo Sánchez. Europa Desgarrada: Guerra, Ocupación y Violencia, 1900-1950. Zaragoza, Spain: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2018.
Lorenz, Hilke. Kriegskinder: Das Schicksal einer Generation. München: List, 2003.
Louis, William Roger. Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez and Decolonization. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
Löw, Andrea, Doris L. Bergen, and Anna Hájková. Alltag im Holocaust: Jüdisches Leben im Großdeutschen Reich, 1941–1945. München: Oldenbourg, 2013.
Lowe, Keith. Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Lowe, Keith. The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Lower, Wendy. Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Ludwig, Ulrike, Markus Pöhlmann, and John Zimmermann. Ehre und Pflichterfüllung als Codes militärischer Tugenden. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2014.
Lynn, Vera. Unsung Heroines: The Women Who Won the War. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990.
MacKenzie, John M. Popular Imperialism and the Military: 1850–1950. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.
Macleod, Jenny. Defeat and Memory: Cultural Histories of Military Defeat in the Modern Era. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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