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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Scheck, Raffael. Hitler's African Victims: The German Army Massacres of Black French Soldiers in 1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Scheide, Carmen. "'Unstintingly Master Warfare': Women in the Red Army." In The Palgrave Handbook of Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century Russia and the Soviet Union, edited by Melanie Ilic, 233-248. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Scheina, Robert. Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Professional Soldier, 1900-2001. Vol. 2. Washington, DC: Brassey's, 2003.
Scheipers, Sibylle. Prisoners in War. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Schiborowski, Ingrid. Frauen und der spanische Krieg 1936-1939: Eine biografische Dokumentation. Berlin: Verlag am Park, 2016.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Entfernte Verwandtschaft: Faschismus, Nationalsozialismus, New Deal, 1933–1939. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2005.
Schlagdenhauffen, Régis. Homosexuel.le.s en Europe pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Paris: Nouveau Monde éditions, 2017.
Schmidt-Harzbach, Ingrid. "Das Vergewaltigungssyndrom: Frauen im April 1945." In Die Unfähigkeit zu Feiern: Der Achte Mai, edited by Norbert Seitz and Lothar Baier, 79-91. The Rape Syndrome: Women in April 1945. Frankfurt am Main: Neue Kritik, 1985.
Schmitz-Koester, Dorothee. "Deutsche Mutter, bist du bereit ...": Der Lebensborn und seine Kinder. Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 2010.
Schneider, Karen. Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Schöck-Quinteros, Eva, and Sigrid Dauks. "Im Lager hat man auch mich zum Verbrecher gemacht": Margarete Ries: Vom "asozialen" Häftling in Ravensbrück zum Kapo in Auschwitz In Aus den Akten auf die Bühne ;; Bd. 5; Variation: Aus den Akten auf die Bühne ;; Bd. 5. Bremen: Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Universität Bremen, 2012.
Schrader, Helen Page. Sisters in Arms: The Women Who Flew in World War II. Barnsley, UK: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2006.
Schrijvers, Peter. The GI War Against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific During World War II. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Schwartz, Barry. Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in Late Twentieth-Century America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Schwarzkopf, Jutta. "Britische Frauen in Luftabwehrbatterien im Zweiten Weltkrieg." In Soldatinnen: Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute, edited by Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach and Silke Satjukow, 375-393. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2011.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Feminism and History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Scott, Rebecca J., and Jean M. Hébrard. Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Sebba, Anne. Les Parisiennes: leur vie, leurs amours, leurs combats, 1939-1949. Paris: Librairie Vuibert, 2018.
Secunda, Eugene, and Terence P. Moran. Selling War to America: From the Spanish American War to the Global War on Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Seegers, Lu, and Jürgen Reulecke. Die “Generation der Kriegskinder:" Historische Hintergründe und Deutungen. Gießen: Psychosozial Verlag, 2009.
Segev, Tom. The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
Seidler, Franz Wilhelm. Frauen zu den Waffen? Marketenderinnen, Helferinnen, Soldatinnen. Koblenz: Wehr und Wissen, 1978.
Seidman, Michael. The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011.
Serebrennikov, T. Woman in the Soviet Union. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1943.
Serreau, Coline. Pierre Brossolette ou les passagers de la lune. France: France 3 (FR 3), 2015.
Shakespeare, Nicholas. Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France. New York: Harper, 2014.
Sheldon, Sayre. Her War Story: Twentieth-Century Women Write About War. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
Sheridan, Dorothy. Wartime Women: A Mass-Observation Anthology, 1937-1945. London: Heinemann, 2009.
Sherry, Michael S. In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
Shik, Na’ama. "Sexual Abuse of Jewish Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau." In Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century, edited by Dagmar Herzog, 221-246. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Shik, Na'ama. "Sexual Abuse of Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau." In Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe’s Twentieth Century, edited by Dagmar Herzog, 221-246. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Shukert, Elfrieda Berthiaume, and Barbara Smith Scibetta. War Brides of World War II. Novato: Presidio Press, 1988.

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