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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Dower, John W. Culturas de Guerra: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 11 de Septiembre, Iraq. Barcelona, Spain: Pasado & Presente, 2010.
Drévillon, Hervé, and Olivier Wieviorka. Histoire militaire de la France : De 1870 à nos jours. Vol. 2. Paris: Éditions Perrin, 2018.
Drinck, Barbara, and Chung-Noh Gross. Erzwungene Prostitution in Kriegs- und Friedenszeiten: Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Frauen und Mädchen. Bielefeld, Germany: Kleine, 2006.
Druliolle, Vincent, and Roddy Brett. The Politics of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Societies: Comparative and Analytical Perspectives In St Antony's series. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Duchen, Claire, and Irene Bandhauer-Schöffmann. When the War Was Over: Women, War, and Peace in Europe, 1940-1956. London: Leicester University Press, 2000.
Duchen, Claire. Women's Rights and Women's Lives in France, 1944-1968. London; New York: Routledge, 1994.
Dudink, Stefan, Karen Hagemann, and John Tosh. Masculinities in Politics and War: Gendering Modern History. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004.
Duggan, Christopher. Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Dundas, Barbara. A History of Women in the Canadian Military. Montreal: Art Global, 2000.
Dunn, Seamus, and T.G. Fraser. Europe and Ethnicity: The First World War and Contemporary Ethnic Conflict. London: Routledge, 1996.
Dunnage, Jonathan. Twentieth-Century Italy: A Social History. London: Longman, 2002.
Durham, Martin. Women and Fascism. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Duus, Peter, Ramon Hawley Myers, and Mark R. Peattie. The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Earl, Hilary, and Karl A. Schleunes. Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World: Lessons and Legacies, Volume XI. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2014.
Ebbert, Jean, and Marie-Beth Hall. Crossed Currents: Navy Women from World War I to Tailhook. Washington, DC: Brassey's Inc., 1993.
Ebbinghaus, Angelika. Opfer und Täterinnen: Frauenbiographien des Nationalsozialismus. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1987.
Ebner, Michael R. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Eby, Cecil D. Between the Bullet and the Lie: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Echternkamp, Jörg, and Stefan Martens. Experience and Memory: The Second World War in Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
Eckmann, Sabine, and Lutz P. Koepnick. Caught by Politics: Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edgerton, Robert B. Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America’s Wars. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.
Edmondson, Linda Harriet. Gender in Russian History and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2001.
Edwards, John Carver. Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in the Service to the Third Reich. New York: Praeger, 1991.
Edy, Carolyn M. The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S Military, and the Press, 1846-1947. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017.
Eichhorn, Svenja, and Philipp Kuwert. Das Geheimnis unserer Großmütter: Eine empirische Studie über sexualisierte Kriegsgewalt um 1945. Gießen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2011.
Eifler, Christine, and Ruth Seifert. Soziale Konstruktionen: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnis. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 1999.
Ekman, Stig, and Nils Edling. War Experience, Self Image and National Identity: The Second World War as Myth and History. Stockholm: Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation & Gidlunds förlag, 1997.
Eksteins, Modris. Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2012.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke, and Sheila Tobias. Women, Militarism, and War: Essays in History, Politics, and Social Theory. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1990.
Endres, Kathleen. Rosie the Rubber Worker: Women Workers in Akron's Rubber Factories during World War II. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2000.
Enloe, Cynthia. The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging the Persistence of Patriarchy. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017.
Epstein, Barbara Leslie. The Minsk Ghetto 1941–1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Ericsson, Kjersti, and Eva Simonsen. Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy. Oxford: Berg, 2005.
Eschebach, Insa, Sigrid Jacobeit, and Silke Wenk. Gedächtnis und Geschlecht: Deutungsmuster in Darstellungen des nationalsozialistischen Genozids. Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2002.

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