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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Mosse, George L. Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Mosse, George L. The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Most, Andrea. Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Mühlhäuser, Regina. "Between 'Racial Awareness' and Fantasies of Potency: Nazi Sexual Politics in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, 1942–1945.", edited by Dagmar Herzog, 197-220. Vol. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Mühlhäuser, Regina. Eroberungen: Sexuelle Gewalttaten und intime Beziehungen deutscher Soldaten in der Sowjetunion, 1941-1945. Hamburg, Germany: Hamburger Edition HIS, 2010.
Mühlhäuser, Regina. "Handlungsräume: Sexuelle Gewalt durch Wehrmacht und SS in den besetzten Gebieten der Sowjetunion." In Krieg und Geschlecht: Sexuelle Gewalt im Krieg und Sex-Zwangsarbeit in NS-Konzentrationslagern, edited by Insa Eschebach and Regina Mühlhäuser, 167-186. Berlin: Metropol, 2008.
Mühlhäuser, Regina. "Massenvergewaltigungen in Berlin 1945 im Gedächtnis betroffener Frauen: Zur Verwobenheit von nationalistischen, rassistischen und geschlechtsspezifischen Diskursen." In Geschlecht hat Methode: Ansätze und Perspektiven in der Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte: Beiträge der 9. Schweizerischen Historikerinnentagung 1998, edited by Veronika Aegerter and Schweizerische Historikerinnentagung, 235-246. Zurich: Chronos, 1999.
Mühlhäuser, Regina. "The Historicity of Denial: Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the War of Annihilation, 1941–1945." In Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World: Lessons and Legacies, Vol. XI, edited by Hilary Camille Earl and Karl A. Schleunes, 34-46. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Müller, Rolf-Dieter. "Liebe im Vernichtungskrieg: Geschlechtergeschichtliche Aspekte des Einsatzes deutscher Soldaten im Russlandkrieg, 194-1944." In Politische Gewalt in der Moderne: Festschrift für Hans-Ulrich Thamer, edited by Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Frank Becker, Thomas Grossbölting, Armin Owzar and Eudolf Schlögl, 239-268. Münster: Aschendorff, 2003.
Müller, Hartmut. The Women of Obernheide: Forced Jewish Women Labourers in Bremen, 1944-1945. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2018.
Myers, Sarah Parry. ""The Women behind the Men behind the Gun": Gendered Identities and Militarization in the Second World War." In The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military, edited by Kara Dixon Vuic, 87-102. New York: Routledge, 2018.
Myers, Ramon H., and Mark R. Peattie. The Japanese Colonial Empire, 1895-1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Naimark, Norman M. Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Naimark, Norman M. The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-1949. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1995.
Nalty, Bernard C. Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Naranch, Bradley, and Geoff Eley. German Colonialism in a Global Age. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.
Nash, Mary. Defying Male Civilization: Women in the Spanish Civil War. Denver, CO: Arden Press, 1995.
Nash, Mary. Rojas: Las Mujeres Republicanas en la Guerra Civil. Madrid, Spain: Taurus, 1999.
Naumann, Klaus. Nachkrieg in Deutschland. Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2001.
Neiberg, Michael S. Potsdam: The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe. New York: Basic Books, 2015.
Nettelbeck, Colin. Forever French: Exile in the United States, 1939-1945. New York: Berg, 1991.
Neuhaus, Susan J., and Sharon Mascall-Dare. Not for Glory: A Centenary of Service by Medical Women to the Australian Army and Its Allies. Salisburg, Australia: Boolarong Press, 2014.
Newitt, Malyn, and Ahmad Alawad Sikainga. "The Portuguese African Colonies during the Second World War." In Africa and World War II, edited by Judith A. Byfield, Carolyn A. Brown and Timothy Parsons, 220-237. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Newlands, Emma. "'Man, Lunatic or Corpse': Fear, Wounding and Death in the British Army, 1939-45." In Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War, edited by Linsey Robb and Juliette Pattinson, 47-69. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Nicholas, Lynn H. Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2005.
Nicholson, Gerald W. L. Canada's Nursing Sisters. Toronto: S. Stevens, 1975.
Nicolodi, Fiamma. Musica e Musicisti nel Ventennio Fascista. Fiesole ; Florence: Discanto ; Nuova Italia, 1984.
Nieden, Susanne zur. "Erotic Fraternization: The Legend of German Women's Quick Surrender." In Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany, edited by Karen Hagemann and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, 297-310. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2002.

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