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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Nilsen, Else-Britt. "Religious Identity and National Loyalty: Women Religious in Norway during the Second World War." In Nuns and Sisters in the Nordic Countries After the Reformation: A Female Counter-Culture in Modern Society, edited by Yvonne Maria Werner, 213-253. Uppsala: The Swedish Institute of Mission Research, 2004.
Ninkovich, Frank A. The Diplomacy of Ideas: U.S. Foreign Policy and Cultural Relations, 1938-1950. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Nishino, Rumiko, Puja Kim, and Akane Onozawa. Denying the Comfort Women: The Japanese State's Assault on Historical Truth In Asia's transformations. London: Routledge, 2018.
Noakes, Jeremy. The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the USA in World War II. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter Press, 1992.
Noakes, Lucy. War and the British: Gender and National Identity, 1939-91. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, 1998.
Noakes, Lucy. Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.
Noggle, Anne. A Dance with Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1994.
Noggle, Anne. For God, Country, and the Thrill of It: Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press , 1990.
Noonan, Norma C., and Carol Nechemias. Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001.
Norma, Caroline. The Japanese Comfort Women and Sexual Slavery During the China and Pacific Wars. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
Novick, Peter. The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Nussbaum, Arthur. A Concise History of the Law of Nations. New York: MacMillan, 1947.
Obinger, Herbert, Klaus Petersen, and Peter Starke. Warfare and Welfare: Military Conflict and Welfare State Development in Western Countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Ofer, Dalie, and Lenore J. Weitzman. Women in the Holocaust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
Olimat, Muhamad S. Arab Women and Arab Spring: Challenges and Opportunities. London: Routledge, 2014.
Omissi, David. The Sepoy and The Raj: The Indian Army, 1860-1940. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994.
Oriol-Maloire, Albert. Les femmes en guerre, 1939-1945: Les oubliées de l'histoire. Amiens: Martelle, 1995.
Orr, Lois, Charles Orr, and Gerd-Rainer Horn. Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War. Basingstoke, England; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Orr, Andrew. Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914-1940. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Overy, Richard J. The Oxford Illustrated History of World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Paine, S. C. M. The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Painter, Nell Irvin. Southern History across the Color Line. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Paletscheck, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut. "Introduction: Gender and Memory Culture in Europe: Female Representations in Historical Perspective." In The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century-Europe, edited by Sylvia Paletscheck and Sylvia Schraut, 7-30. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2008.
Paletschek, Sylvia, and Sylvia Schraut. The Gender of Memory: Cultures of Remembrance in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2008.
Palmié, Stephan, and Francisco A. Scarano. The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Paoletti, Ciro. A Military History of Italy. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008.
Paret, Peter, Beth Irwin Lewis, and Paul Paret. Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution from the Hoover Institution Archives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Parker, Geoffrey. The Cambridge History of Warfare. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Parker, Pauline E. Women of the Homefront: World War II Recollections of 55 Americans. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.
Azrieli, Avraham. One Step Ahead: A Mother of Seven Escaping Hitler's Claws. Scottsdale, AZ: Memoir & Biography, 1999.
Passmore, Kevin. Women, Gender, and Fascism in Europe, 1919-45. New Brunswick, NJ: Manchester University Press, 2003.
Patel, Kiran. Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Paton-Walsh, Margaret. Our War Too: American Women Against the Axis. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Patriarca, Éliane. Amère libération. Paris: Arthaud, 2017.
Pattinson, Juliette. Behind Enemy Lines: Gender, Passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War In Cultural history of modern war; Variation: Cultural history of modern war. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007.
Pattinson, Juliette, Arthur McIvor, and Linsey Robb. Men in Reserve: British Civilian Masculinities in the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017.

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