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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Paul, Gerhard. Die Täter der Shoah: Fanatische Nationalsozialisten oder ganz normale Deutsche? In Die Täter der Shoah: Fanatische Nationalsozialisten oder ganz normale Deutsche? Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2002.
Paulson, Daryl S., and Stanley Krippner. Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans Including Women, Reservists, and Those Coming Back from Iraq. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Pauwels, Jacques R. The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War. Toronto: J. Lorimer, 2002.
Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944. New York: Norton, 1972.
Payne, Stanley G. Politics and the Military in Modern Spain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967.
Payne, Stanley G. The Spanish Civil War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Pedroncini, Guy. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1871 à 1940, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 3. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Peet, Jessica L., and Laura Sjoberg. Gender and Civilian Victimization in War. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Peled, Yoav, Noah Lewin-Epstein, Gai Mundlaḳ, and Jean L. Cohen. Democratic Citizenship and War. New York; London: Routledge, 2011.
Pendas, Devin O. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963-1965: Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Pennington, Reina. Wings, Women, and War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat In Women. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2001.
Penniston-Bird, Corinna, and Emma Vickers. Gender and the Second World War: Lessons of War. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Penslar, Derek J. Jews and the Military: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013.
Perry, F. W. The Commonwealth Armies: Manpower and Organisation in Two World Wars. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988.
Petö, Andrea. "Memory and the Narrative of Rape in Budapest and Vienna in 1945." In Life after Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History during the 1940s and 1950s, edited by Richard Bessel and Dirk Schumann, 129-148. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Petö, Andrea, Louise Hecht, and Karolina Krasuska. Women and the Holocaust: New Perspectives and Challenges. Warsaw: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN, 2015.
Petrenko, Olena. "Zwischenpositionen: Frauen im ukrainischen bewaffneten Untergrund der 1940er und 1950er Jahre." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 257-278. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Phillips, Kathy J. Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Phillips, Kimberley L. War! What Is It Good For?: Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
Pickering-Iazzi, Robin. Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism, and Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
Pierson, Ruth Roach, and Nupur Chaudhuri. Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Pierson, Ruth Roach. They're Still Women After All: The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
Pierson, Ruth Roach. Women and Peace: Theoretical, Historical and Practical Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2020.
Pietsch, Andreas. Tönende Verführung: NS-Propaganda durch Filmmusik. Berlin: Mensch-und-Buch-Verlag, 2009.
Piggott, Juliet. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. London: Cooper, 1975.
Pilcher, Georg, and Heimo Halbrainer. Camaradas: Österreicherinnen und Österreicher im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg 1936 - 1939. Graz: CLIO Verlag, 2017.
Pineau, Frédéric. Femmes en guerre: 1940-1946. Antony: ETAI, 2013.
Plant, Rebecca. "Preventing the Inevitable: John Appel and the Problem of Psychiatric Casualties in the US Army during World War II." In Science and Emotions after 1945: A Transatlantic Perspective, edited by Frank Biess and Daniel M. Gross, 209-229. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Pohl, Dieter, and Tanja Sebta. Zwangsarbeit in Hitlers Europa: Besatzung, Arbeit, Folgen. Berlin: Metropol, 2013.
Pollard, Miranda. Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Ponzanesi, Sandra. Gender, Globalization, and Violence: Postcolonial Conflict Zones. New York: Routledge, 2014.
Poulos, Margaret. Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Presley, Cora Ann. Kikuyu Women, the Mau Mau Rebellion, and Social Change in Kenya. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992.
Preston, Paul. Doves of War: Four Women of Spain. London: HarperCollins, 2002.
Preston, Paul, and Ann L. Mackenzie. The Republic Besieged: Civil War in Spain 1936-1939. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 1996.

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