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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Black, Jeremy. Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.
Bloch, Marc. Strange Defeat: A Statement of Evidence Written in 1940. London: Folio Society, 2015.
Blom, Ida, and Sølvi Sogner. Med kjønnsperspektiv på norsk historie: fra vikingtid til 2000-årsskiftet. Oslo, Norway: Cappelen akademisk forlag, 1999.
Bloxham, Donald, and Robert Gerwarth. Political Violence in Twentieth Century Europe. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Bloxham, Donald, and A. Dirk Moses. The Oxford Handbook of Genocide Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Bock, Gisela. "Antinatalism, Maternity, and Paternity in National Socialist Racism." In Nazism and German Society, 1933-1945, edited by David F. Crew, 178-222. London: Routledge, 1994.
Bock, Gisela. "Equality and Difference in National Socialist Racism." In Beyond Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist Politics and Female Subjectivity, edited by Gisela Bock and Susan James, 89-109. London: Routledge, 1992.
Böck, Christina, and Sybille Krafft. Zwischen den Fronten: Münchner Frauen in Krieg und Frieden, 1900-1950. München: Buchendorfer Verlag, 1995.
Bode, Sabine. Die Vergessene Generation: Die Kriegskinder Brechen ihr Schweigen. Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 2004.
Bodnar, John E. The "Good War" in American Memory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
Boggs, Carl, and Tom Pollard. The Hollywood War Machine: U.S. Militarism and Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 2007.
Bolzenius, Sandra. Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took on the Army during World War II. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Bond, Brian. War and Society in Europe, 1870–1970. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.
Boog, Horst, Jürgen Förster, Joachim Hoffmann, Ernst Klink, Rolf-Dieter Müller, and Gerd R. Ueberschär. Germany and the Second World War: The Attack on the Soviet Union​.. Vol. 4. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Boog, Horst, Gerhard Krebs, and Detlef Vogel. Germany and the Second World War: The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia, 1943-1944/5. Vol. 7. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 2006.
Booker, Bryan. African Americans in the United States Army in World War II. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Bormann, Natalie. "'We Didn’t Know There Was a Women’s Camp': The Haunting Qualities of Ravensbrück." In The Ethics of Teaching at Sites of Violence and Trauma: Student Encounters with the Holocaust, 46-62. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Bösling, Carl-Heinrich, Ursula Führer, Claudia Glunz, and Thomas F. Schneider. Männer. Frauen. Krieg. Krieg und Frieden-eine Frage des Geschlechts?. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015.
Bosworth, R. J. B. Mussolini's Italy: Life under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
Bou, Núria, and Xavier Pérez Grobet. El Cuerpo Erótico de la Actriz Bajo los Fascismos: España, Italia, Alemania (1939-1945). Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra, 2018.
Boulle, Georges, and Pierre Le Goyet. Le Corps expéditionnaire français en Italie 1943-1944, par le lieutenant-colonel Georges Boulle. Paris: Imprint nationale, 1971.
Bousquet, Ben, and Colin Douglas. West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1991.
Bowen, Warren H., and José E. Alvarez. A Military History of Modern Spain: From the Napoleonic Era to the International War on Terror. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2007.
Bowers, Page. The General's Niece: the Little-Known de Gaulle Who Fought to Free Occupied France. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 2017.
Boyce, Robert. The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Bragança, Manuel, and Peter D. Tame. The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016 In Studies in contemporary European history. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016.
Branche, Raphaëlle, and Fabrice Virgili. Rape in Wartime. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Braudy, Leo. From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Braybon, Gail, and Penny Summerfield. Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars. London: Pandora Press, 1987.
Brenner, Rachel Feldhay. Writing as Resistance: Four Women Confronting the Holocaust: Edith Stein, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
Brewer, Susan A. To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States during World War II. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
Brewer, Susan A. Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Brian, Kathleen M., and James W. Trent, Jr. Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Bridenthal, Renate, Susan Mosher Stuard, and Merry E. Wiesner. Becoming Visible: Women in European History. 3rd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

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