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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Meek, Jeffrey. Queer Voices in Post-War Scotland: Male Homosexuality, Religion and Society In Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Merridale, Catherine. Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006.
Merridale, Catherine. Night of Stone: Death and Memory in Twentieth Century Russia. New York: Viking, 2001.
Merryman, Molly. Clipped Wings: The Rise and Fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Metcalf, Barbara D., and Thomas R. Metcalf. A Concise History of Modern India. 3rd ed. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Mettler, Suzanne. Soldiers to Citizens: The G.I. Bill and the Making of the Greatest Generation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Metzger, Barbara. "Towards an International Human Rights Regime during the Inter-War Years: The League of Nations’ Combat of Traffic in Women and Children." In Beyond Sovereignty: Britain, Empire and Transnationalism, 1880–1950, edited by Kevin Grant, Philippa Levine and Frank Trentmann, 54-79. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Meyer, Leisa D. Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps During World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
Meyer, Sibylle, and Eva Schulze. Von Liebe sprach damals keiner: Familienalltag in der Nachkriegszeit. Munich: Beck, 1985.
Milkman, Ruth. Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.
Minehan, Philip B. Civil War and World War in Europe: Spain, Yugoslavia and Greece, 1936-1949. New York, U.S.A.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Ministerio de Trabajo e Inmigración, and Instituto de la Mujer. Las Mujeres y la Guerra Civil Española. Madrid, Spain: Instituto de la Mujer, 1991.
Mjøset, Lars, and Stephen Van Holde. The Comparative Study of Conscription in the Armed Forces. Amsterdam: JAI, 2002.
Moeller, Robert. Protecting Motherhood: Women and the Family in the Politics of Postwar West Germany. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1993.
Moeller, Robert G. War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany. London: University of California Press, 2001.
Mojzes, Paul. Balkan Genocides: Holocaust and Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century In Studies in genocide : religion, history, and human rights; Variation: Studies in genocide. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
Monahan, Evelyn, and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. A Few Good Women: America's military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New York, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Monahan, Evelyn M., and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. And If I Perish: Frontline U.S. Army Nurses in World War II. New York: Knopf, 2003.
Monnickendam, Andrew, and Aránzazu Usandizaga. Dressing Up For War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
Montgomery, Ben. The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2016.
Moore, Aaron William. Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of Aerial Bombing in Britain and Japan during the Second World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Moore, Brenda. Serving Our Country: Japanese American Women in the Military during World War II. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Moore, Shannon Baker. Women with Wings: Women Pilots of World War II. Minneapolis, MN: Essential Library, 2017.
Moore, Bob, and Barbara Hately-Broad. Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace: Captivity, Homecoming, and Memory in World War II. Oxford, UK: Berg, 2005.
Moore, Bob. Resistance in Western Europe. Oxford: Berg, 2000.
Moorehead, Caroline. A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
Moorehead, Caroline. Dunant's Dream: War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross. London: HarperCollins, 1998.
Morag, Raya. Defeated Masculinity: Post-Traumatic Cinema in the Aftermath of War. Brussels, Belgium: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2009.
Moran, Daniel, and Arthur Waldron. The People in Arms: Military Myth and National Mobilization Since the French Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Morden, Bettie J. The Women's Army Corps, 1945-1978. Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, U.S. Army, 1990.
Morelon, Claire. "The Urban-Rural Antagonism in Prague during the First World War in a Comparative Perspective." In Frontwechsel: Österreich-Ungarns “Großer Krieg” im Vergleich, edited by Wolfram Dornik, Julia Walleczek and Stefan Wedrac, 325-344. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2014.
Morsink, Johannes. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting, and Intent. Philadelphia, PA: University of Philadelphia Press, 1999.

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