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.

The most important wars for this period include:

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Madison, James H. Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Madra, Amandeep Singh, and Parmjit Singh. Warrior Saints: Four Centuries of the Sikh Military Tradition. London: I. B. Tauris, 1999.
Madsen, Grant. Sovereign Soldiers: How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.
Maerz, Susanne. "From Taboo to Compensation: Krigsbarn in Public Discourse and Literature after 1945." In From Patriotic Memory to a Universalistic Narrative? Shifts in Norwegian Memory Culture after 1945 in Comparative Perspective, edited by Arnd Bauerkämper, Odd-Bjøn Fure, Øystein Hetland and Robert Zimmerman, 253-271. Essen, Germany: Klartext, 2014.
Mahr, Cordula. Kriegsliteratur von Frauen? Zur Darstellung des zweiten Weltkriegs in Autobiographien von Frauen nach 1960 In Frauen in der Literaturgeschichte ;; Bd. 14; Variation: Frauen in der Literaturgeschichte ;; Bd. 14. Herbolzheim: Centaurus Verlag, 2006.
Mailänder, Elissa. Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015.
Major, Susan. Female Railway Workers in World War II. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Transport, 2018.
Mangan, James Anthony. 'Manufactured' Masculinity: Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism. Abingdon, UK; New York: Routledge, 2012.
Mangini, Shirley. Memories of Resistance: Women's Voices from the Spanish Civil War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Mann, Gregory. Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.
Mant, Joan. All Muck, No Medals: Land Girls by Land Girls. Sussex, UK: Book Guild, 1994.
Markwick, Roger D. "'The Motherland Calls’: Soviet Women in the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945." In The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union, edited by Melanie Ilic, 217-232. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Markwick, Roger D., and Euridice C. Cardona. Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Marshall, T. H. Citizenship and Social Class, and Other Essays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1950.
Marszałek, Magdalena, and Alina Molisak. Nach dem Vergessen: Rekurse auf den Holocaust in Ostmitteleuropa nach 1989 In Nach dem Vergessen, Rekurse auf den Holocaust in Ostmitteleuropa nach 1989. Berlin: Kadmos, 2010.
Martin, Elaine. Gender, Patriarchy, and Fascism in the Third Reich: The Response of Women Writers. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993.
Martin, Angela, and Hucky Fin Porzner. Ich sah den Namen Bosch: Polnische Frauen als KZ-Häftlinge in der Dreilinden Maschinenbau GmbH. Berlin: Metropol, 2002.
Martin, Jean-Clément. La guerre civile: Entre Histoire et Mémoire. Nantes: Ouest éditions, 1995.
Marwick, Arthur, Clive Emsley, and Wendy Simpson. Total War and Historical Change: Europe, 1914-1955. Buckingham; Philadelphia, PA: Open University Press, 2001.
Mason, Ursula Stuart. Britannia's Daughters: The Story of the WRNS. London: Leo Cooper, 1992.
Mason, Emily. Democracy, Deeds and Dilemmas: Support for the Spanish Republic within British Civil Society, 1936-1939 In The Cañada Blanch / Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain. Eastbourne, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2017.
Maubach, Franka. Die Stellung halten: Kriegserfahrungen und Lebensgeschichten von Wehrmachthelferinnen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009.
Maubach, Franka. "Zwischen Selbstermächtigung und Ernüchterung: Erfahrungen weiblicher Hilfe für die Wehrmacht im Ausnahmezustand des Krieges." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 279-299. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Mayers, David Allan. America and the Postwar World: Remaking International Society, 1945-1956 In Routledge studies in modern history. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.
Mazower, Mark. After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960 In After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation and State in Greece, 1943-1960. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Mazower, Mark. Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe. London: Allen Lane, 2008.
McBryde, Brenda. Quiet Heroines: Nurses of the Second World War. London: Chatto & Windus, 1983.
McCallum, Claire E. The Fate of the New Man: Representing and Reconstructing Masculinity in Soviet Visual Culture, 1945-1965. Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2018.
McEnaney, Laura. "A Women’s Peace Dividend: Demobilization and Working Class Women in Chicago, 1945–1953." In Gender and the Long Postwar: The United States and the Two Germanys, 1945-1989, edited by Karen Hagemann and Sonya Michel, 73-94. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.
McEuen, Melissa A. Making War, Making Women: Femininity and Duty on the American Home Front, 1941-1945. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011.
McIntosh, Gillian, and Diane Urquhart. Irish Women at War: The Twentieth Century. Dublin, Ireland; Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2010.
McIntosh, Elizabeth P. Sisterhood of Spies: The Women of the OSS. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998.
McIvor, Arthur. "Rebuilding 'Real Men': Work and Working-Class Male Civilian Bodies in Wartime." In Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War, edited by Linsey Robb and Juliette Pattinson, 121-144. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. Warrior Nation: Rebranding Canada in an Age of Anxiety. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2012.
McLaughlin, Redmond. The Royal Army Medical Corps. London: L. Cooper, 1972.
McSorley, Kevin. War and the Body: Militarisation, Practice and Experience. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Meek, Per Arne Loehr. Lebensborn 6210. Kristiansund: Ibs forlag, 2001.

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