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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Clay, Catherine, and Michael Leapman. Master Race: The Lebensborn Experiment in Nazi Germany. Reading, UK: Hodder and Stoughton, 1995.
Clayton, Anthony, and Donald C. Savage. Government and Labour in Kenya, 1895–1963. London: Cass, 1974.
Clements, Barbara Evans. A History of Women in Russia: From Earliest Times to the Present. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.
Clements, Barbara Evans. Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.
Clements, Barbara Evans, Rebecca Friedman, and Dan Healey. Russian Masculinities in History and Culture. Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave, 2002.
Coates, Jennifer. Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016.
Cochran, Alfred W. "The Documentary Film Scores of Gail Kubik." In Film Music: Critical Approaches, edited by Kevin J. Donnelly, 117-128. New York: Continuum, 2001.
Cohen, Gerard Daniel. In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order In Journal of Interdisciplinary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Cohen-Pfister, Laurel. "Rape, War, and Outrage: Changing Perceptions on German Victimhood in the Period of Post-Unification." In Victims and Perpetrators, 1933-1945: (Re)presenting the Past in Post-Unification Culture, edited by Dagmar Wienröder-Skinner and Laurel Cohen-Pfister, 316-336. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 2006.
Cole, Jean Hascall. Women Pilots of World War II. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1992.
Colman, Penny. Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995.
Colvin, Kelly Ricciardi. Gender and French Identity After the Second World War, 1944-1954: Engendering Frenchness. United States: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Combs, William L. The Voice of the SS: A History of the SS Journal "Das Schwarze Korps". New York: P. Lang, 1986.
Confino, Alon, Paul Betts, and Dirk Schumann. Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany In Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place of the Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008.
Confino, Alon, and Peter Fritzsche. The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society In The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Culture and Society. Urbana Chmpaign: University of Illinois Press , 2002.
Coni, Nicholas. Medicine and Warfare: Spain, 1936-1939. New York, U.S.A.: Routledge, 2007.
Conklin, Alice L. In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850–1950. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Connelly, Mark, and David Welch. War and the Media: Reportage and Propaganda, 1900-2003. London: I. B. Tauris, 2005.
Cooper, Dana, and Claire Phelan. Motherhood and War: International Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Copeland, Jeffrey C., and Xu, Yan. The YMCA at War: Collaboration and Conflict during the World Wars. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.
Cortright, David. Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Martel, André. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1940 à nos jours, Edited by André Corvisier. Vol. 4. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
Costello, John. Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939-45. London: Collins, 1985.
Cottam, Kazimiera Janina. Defending Leningrad: Women Behind Enemy Lines. Nepean, ON: New Military Publishing, 1998.
Cottam, Kazimiera Janina. The Girl from Kashin: Soviet Women in Resistance in World War II. Manhattan, KS: MA/AH Pub., 1984.
Cottam, Kazimiera Janina. Women in War and Resistance: Selected Biographies of Soviet Women Soldiers. Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing & R. Pullins Co., 1998.
Covert, Tawnya J. Adkins. Manipulating Images: World War II Mobilization of Women through Magazine Advertising. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.
Cragin, Thomas, and Laura A. Salsini. Resistance, Heroism, Loss: World War II in Italian Literature and Film. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018.
Crisci, M. G. Call Sign, White Lily. Carlsbad, CA: Orca Center Pub. Co., 2009.
Crissey, Etsuko Takushi. Okinawa's GI Brides: Their Lives in America. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017.
Crist, Elizabeth Bergman. Music for the Common Man: Aaron Copland during the Depression and War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Crook, Tom, Rebecca Gill, and Bertrand Traithe. Evil, Barbarism and Empire: Britain and Abroad, c. 1830-2000. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Culver, Annika. Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013.
Curtis, Lettice. The Forgotten Pilots: A Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary, 1939-45. Henley-on-Thames, UK: Foulis, 1971.
Czapski, Józef. Inhuman Land: A Wartime Journey Through the USSR In New York Review Books classics. New York: New York Review Books, 2018.
Czocher, Anna, Dobrochna Kalwa, Barbara Klich-Kluczewska, and Beata Łabno. Is War Men's Business? Fates of Women in Occupied Krakow in Twelve Scenes. Kraków: Muzeum Historyczne Miasta Krakowa, 2011.

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