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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Stanley, Jo. A history of the Royal Navy : women and the Royal Navy. London: I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Stargardt, Nicholas. Witnesses of War: Children's Lives under the Nazis. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Starns, Penny. Nurses at War: Women on the Frontline, 1939-45. Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2000.
Starns, Penny. Odette: World War Two's Darling Spy. Stroud: History Press, 2009.
Stecopoulos, Harry, and Michael Uebel. Race and the Subject of Masculinities. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997.
Steinbacher, Sybille. Volksgenossinnen: Frauen in der NS-Volksgemeinschaft In Volksgenossinnen: Frauen in der NS-Volksgemeinschaft. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2007.
Stelzl-Marx, Barbara. "Freier und Befreier: Zum Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen sowjetischen Besatzungssoldaten und österreichischen Frauen." In Die Rote Armee in Österreich: Sowjetische Besatzung 1945-1955. Beiträge, edited by Stefan Karner and Barbara Stelzl-Marx, 421-448. Wien; München: Oldenbourg, 2005.
Stepan, Nancy. The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800–1960. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1982.
Stephenson, Jill. Women in Nazi Germany. Harlow, UK: Longman, 2001.
Sterner, Doris M. In and Out of Harm's Way: A History of the Navy Nurse Corps. Seattle: Peanut Butter Publishing , 1997.
Stevens, Michael E. Women Remember the War, 1941-1945 (Voices of the Wisconsin Past). Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 1993.
Stewart, Victoria. Women's Autobiography: War and Trauma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Stites, Richard. Culture and Entertainment in Wartime Russia. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Stone, Dan. The Historiography of the Holocaust. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Storey, Neil R., and Molly Housego. Women in the Second World War. London: Shire Publications, 2018.
Storey, Neil R. WRNS: The Women's Royal Naval Service. Oxford, UK: Bloomsbury Shire, 2017.
Storm, Eric, and Ali Al Tuma. Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914–1945: “Aliens in Uniform” in Wartime Societies. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Stouffer, Samuel A., Edward A. Suchman, Leland C. DeVinney, Shirley A. Star, and Robin M. Williams. The American Soldier: Adjustment during Army Life. Vol. 1. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949.
Stouffer, Samuel A., Arthur A. Lumsdaine, Marion Harper Lumsdaine, Robin M. Williams, Jr., Brewster M. Smith, Irving L. Janis, Shirley A. Star, and Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. The American Soldier: Combat and Its Aftermath. Vol. 2. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1949.
Strachan, Hew. European Armies and the Conduct of War. London and Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983.
Strebe, Amy Goodpaster. Flying for Her Country: The American and Soviet Women Military Pilots of World War II. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Strobl, Ingrid. Die Angst kam erst danach: Jüdische Frauen im Widerstand in Europa 1939-1945 In Fischer-Taschenbuch ;; 13677; Variation: Fischer-Taschenbuch.; Die Frau in der Gesellschaft ;; 13677. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1998.
Sulkunen, Irma, Seija-Leena Nevala-Nurmi, and Pirjo Markkola. Suffrage, Gender and Citizenship: International Perspectives on Parliamentary Reforms. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Sullivan, Jim. Doing Our Bit: New Zealand Women Tell Their Stories of World War Two. Auckland: HarperCollinsPublishers New Zealand, 2002.
Summerfield, Penny. "'She Wants a Gun not a Dishcloth!’: Gender, Service and Citizenship in Britain in the Second World War." In A Soldier and a Woman: Sexual Integration in the Military, edited by Gerard J. de Groot and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird, 119-134. New York: Pearson Education, 2000.
Summerfield, Penny, and Corinna M. Peniston-Bird. Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007.
Summerfield, Penny. "Twentieth-Century Women in Wartime." International History Review 19, no. 1 (Special Issue) (1997): 3-160.
Szober, Patricia. "The Prosecution of Jewish-Gentile Sex in the Race Defilement Trials." In The Holocaust in International Perspective: Lessons and Legacies, Vol. VII, edited by Dagmar Herzog, 159-168. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press , 2009.
Takaki, Ronald T. Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 2000.
Tanaka, Toshiyuki, and Marilyn Blatt Young. Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth-Century History. New York: New Press, 2009.
Tanaka, Yuki. Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.

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