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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Damousi, Joy, and Marilyn Lake. Gender and War: Australians at War in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Damousi, Joy. The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory, and Wartime Bereavement in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Daniels, Gordon, and Hiroko Tomida. Japanese Women: Emerging from Subservience, 1868-1945. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2005.
Davy, Jennifer, Karen Hagemann, and Ute Kätzel. Frieden—Gewalt—Geschlecht: Friedens- und Konfliktforschung als Geschlechterforschung. Essen: Klartext, 2005.
Dawson, Bee. Spreading Their Wings: New Zealand WAAFs in Wartime. Auckland, NZ; New York: Penguin, 2004.
De Grazia, Victoria. How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
De Grazia, Victoria. "How Mussolini Ruled Italian Women." In A History of Women in the West: Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century, edited by Françoise Thébaud, 120-148. Vol. 5. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.
De Matos, Christine, and Robin Gerster. Occupying the "Other": Australia and Military Occupations from Japan to Iraq. Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
de Vries, Susanna. Blue Ribbons Bitter Bread: The Life of Joice NanKivell Loch. Alexandria: Hale & Iremonger, 2000.
Deák, István, Jan Tomasz Gross, and Tony Judt. The Politics of Retribution in Europe: World War II and its Aftermath. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Deist, Wilhelm, Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, and Wolfram Wette. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg: Ursachen und Voraussetzungen der deutschen Kriegspolitik. Vol. 1. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1979.
Deist, Wilhelm, Manfred Messerschmidt, Hans-Erich Volkmann, and Wolfram Wette. Germany and the Second World War: The Build-up of German Aggression. Vol. 1. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1990.
Dejung, Christof, and Regula Stämpfli. Armee, Staat und Geschlecht: Die Schweiz im internationalen Vergleich, 1918–1945. Zurich: Chronos, 2003.
Del Boca, Angelo. La Guerra d'Etiopia: L'ultima Impresa del Colonialismo. Milan: Longanesi, 2010.
Dell, Pamela. The Soviet Night Witches: Brave Women Bomber Pilots of World War II In Women and war. North Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint, 2018.
Dell, Pamela. The Women Behind Rosie the Riveter: Working for the U.S. War Effort. North Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2018.
Diehl, Paula. Macht - Mythos - Utopie: Die Körperbilder der SS-Männer. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005.
Diehl, James. The Thanks of the Fatherland: German Veterans after the Second World War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
DiGeorgio-Lutz, JoAnn, and Donna Gosbee. Women and Genocide: Gendered Experiences of Violence, Survival, and Resistance. Toronto: Women's Press, 2017.
Dinan, Jacqueline. Between the Dances: World War II Women Tell Their Stories. Edgecliff, Australia: Jane Curry Publishing, 2015.
Dippel, John Van Houten. War and Sex: A Brief History of Men's Urge for Battle. Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2010.
Dixon, Jeffrey S., and Meredith Reid Sarkees. A Guide to Intra-State Wars: An Examination of Civil Wars, 1816-2014. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press/SAGE Reference, 2016.
Dodd, Lindsey, and David Lees. Vichy France and Everyday Life: Confronting the Challenges of Wartime, 1939-1945. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Doherty, Thomas. Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
Dombrowski, Nicole Ann. Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent. New York: Garland, 1999.
Dombrowski-Risser, Nicole. France under Fire: German Invasion, Civilian Flight and Family Survival during World War II. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Donini, Antonio. The Golden Fleece: Manipulation and Independence in Humanitarian Action. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2012.
Dornik, Wolfram. "Besatzungsalltag in Wien: Die Differenziertheit von Erlebniswelten: Vergewaltigungen – Plünderungen – Erbsen – Straußwalzer." In Die Rote Armee in Österreich: sowjetische Besatzung 1945-1955: Dokumente, edited by Stefan Karner and Barbara Stelzl-Marx, 449-468. Wien; München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2005.
Douglas, R. M. Orderly and Humane: The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

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