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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Proctor, Robert. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Prusin, Alexander V. The Lands Between: Conflict in the East European Borderlands, 1870-1992. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Przyrembel, Alexandra. Rassenschande: Reinheitsmythos und Vernichtungslegitimation im Nationalsozialismus. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003.
Pugliese, Stanislao G. Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy: 1919 to the Present. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
Pugsley, Christopher. Scars on the Heart: Two Centuries of New Zealand at War. Auckland, New Zealand: David Bateman in association with Auckland Museum, 1996.
Pulju, Rebecca J. Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Putney, Martha. When the Nation Was in Need: Blacks in the Women's Army Corps During World War II. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992.
Qiu, Peipei, Su Zhiliang, and Chen Lifei. Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: UBC Press, 2013.
Quataert, Jean H. "War-Making and Restraint by Law: The Formative Years, 1864-1914." In The Cambridge History of War, edited by Roger Chickering, Dennis Showalter and Hans van de Ven, 142-162. Vol. 4: War in the Modern World, 1850–2005. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Quétel, Claude. Femmes dans la guerre, 1939-1945. Paris : Perrin, 1989.
Quigley, Paul, and James Hawdon. Reconciliation after Civil Wars: Global Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Quinkert, Babette, Philipp Rauh, and Ulrike Winkler. Krieg und Psychiatrie 1914 - 1950 In Krieg und Psychiatrie, 1914–1950. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010.
Reese, Roger. Why Stalin's Soldiers Fought: The Red Army's Military Effectiveness in World War II. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2011.
Reeves, Richard. Infamy: The Shocking Story of the Japanese American Internment in World War II. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2015.
Reynolds, David. The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.
Richmond, Kathleen. Women and Spanish Fascism: The Women's Section of the Falange, 1934-1959. London: Routledge, 2003.
Rickman, Sarah Byrn. The Originals: The Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II. 2nd ed. Springboro, OH: Braughler Books, 2017.
Rickman, Sarah Byrn. WASP of the Ferry Command: Women Pilots, Uncommon Deeds. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2016.
Riera, Monica, and Gavin Schaffer. The Lasting War: Society and Identity in Britain, France and Germany after 1945. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Riesenberger, Dieter. Das Deutsche Rote Kreuz: Eine Geschichte 1864–1990. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2002.
Riesenberger, Dieter. Für Humanität in Krieg und Frieden: Das Internationale Rote Kreuz, 1863-1977. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1992.
Rittner, Carol, and John K. Roth. Different Voices: Women and the Holocaust. New York: Paragon House, 1993.
Rittner, Carol, and John K. Roth. Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2012.
Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie, and Emilio Zamora. Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Robb, Linsey. "'The Cushy Number': Civilian Men in British Post-War Representations of the Second World War." In Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War, edited by Linsey Robb and Juliette Pattinson, 169-188. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Robb, Linsey, and Juliette Pattinson. "Becoming Visible: Gendering the Study of Men at War." In Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War, edited by Linsey Robb and Juliette Pattinson, 1-22. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Robb, Linsey. Men at Work: The Working Man in British Culture, 1939-1945. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Robb, Lindsay, and Juliette Pattinson. Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War In Genders and sexualities in history. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Roberts, Elizabeth. "Freedom, Faction, Fame and Blood": British Soldiers of Conscience in Greece, Spain and Finland. Brighton, U.K.: Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
Roberts, Hannah. The WRNS in Wartime: The Women's Royal Naval Service 1917-45. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Roberts, Mary. What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Robinson, Paul. Military Honour and the Conduct of War: From Ancient Greece to Iraq. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.

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