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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Bristol, Douglas Walter, and Heather Marie Stur. Integrating the US Military: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation since World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Bröckling, Ulrich. Disziplin: Soziologie und Geschichte militärischer Gehorsamsproduktion. Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1997.
Brooks, Jennifer E. Defining the Peace: World War II Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Brooks, Jane. Negotiating Nursing: British Army Sisters and Soldiers in the Second World War. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2018.
Brooks, Jeanice. The Musical Work of Nadia Boulanger: Performing Past and Future between the Wars. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Brosman, Catharine Savage. Visions of War in France: Fiction, Art, Ideology. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1999.
Brown, Frederick. The Embrace of Unreason: France, 1914-1940. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
Browning, Christopher R., Susannah Heschel, Michael R. Marrus, and Milton Shain. Holocaust Scholarship: Personal Trajectories and Professional Interpretations. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Browning, Christopher R. Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Browning, Christopher R. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Browning, Christopher R. The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975.
Bucher, Greta. Women, the Bureaucracy and Daily Life in Postwar Moscow, 1945-1953 In East European monographs ;; no. 682; Variation: East European monographs ;; no. 682. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 2006.
Buchner, Alex. The German Army Medical Corps in World War II. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing, 1999.
Bucur-Deckard, Maria. Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Bunting, Madeleine. The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands under German Rule, 1940-1945. London: HarperCollins, 1995.
Burbank, Jane, and Frederick Cooper. Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Burg, B. R. Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present. New York: New York University Press, 2002.
Burrin, Philippe. France under the Germans: Collaboration and Compromise. New York: New Press, 1996.
Busch, Reinhold, Ernst Gerber, Elsi Eichenberger, Ernst Baumann, and Hubert de Reynier. Schweizer Ärztemissionen im II. Weltkrieg, Edited by Reinhold Busch. Berlin: Frank Wünsche, 2002.
Bussey, Gertrude Carman, and Margaret Tims. Pioneers for Peace: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915-1965. London: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, British Section, 1980.
Butterfield, Jo, and Elizabeth Heineman. "The Gendered Nexus between Conflict and Citizenship in Historical Perspective." In The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict, edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi R. Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes and Nahla Valji, 62-74. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Butterworth, Miriam. Lull before the Storm : Germany in the Summer of 1938. Simsbury, Connecticut: Antrim House, 2017.
Byfield, Judith A., Carolyn A. Brown, Timothy Parsons, and Ahmad Alawad Sikainga. Africa and World War II. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Byles, Joan Montgomery. War, Women, and Poetry, 1914-1945: British and German Writers and Activists. Newark; London: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses, 1995.
Caire, Raymond. La femme militaire: Des origines à nos jours. Paris: Lavauzelle, 1981.
Calder, Jean McKinlay. The Story of Nursing. London: Methuen, 1971.
Campbell, D'Ann. "Almost Integrated? American Servicewomen and Their International Sisters Since WWII." In A Companion to Women's Military History, edited by Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, 291-330. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012.
Campbell, D'Ann. "Inside or Outside? Women's Role in American Military History." In Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders?, edited by Lois Duke Whitaker, 323-339. 5th ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 2011.
Campbell, Caroline. Political Belief in France, 1927-1945: Gender, Empire, and Fascism in the Croix de Feu and Parti Social Français. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2015.
Campbell, D'Ann. Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Campillo, María Vidaurreta. La Guerra y la Condición Femenina en la Sociedad Industrial: el Caso de Francia. Madrid: Dirección General de la Juventud y Promoción Sociocultural, 1981.
Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.
Capdevila, Luc, Francois Rouquet, Fabrice Virgili, and Danièle Voldman. Hommes et femmes dans la France en guerre (1914-1945). Paris: Payot, 2003.
Caplan, Jane, and Nikolaus Wachsmann. Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany: The New Histories. London: Routledge, 2009.

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