Routledge Studies in Second World War History
About the Book Series
The Second World War remains today the most seismic political event of the past hundred years, an unimaginable unpheaval that impacted upon every country on earth and is fully ingrained in the consciousness of the world's citizens. Traditional narratives of the conflict are entrenched to such a degree that new research takes on an ever important role in helping us make sense of World War II. Aiming to bring to light the results of new archival research and exploring notions of memory, propaganda, genocide, empire and culture, Routledge Studies in Second World War History sheds new light on the causes, events and legacy of global war.
Flight and Rescue from Norway during the Holocaust
1st Edition
By Paul R. Bartrop
December 15, 2025
This book fills a lacuna in the English-language literature dealing with Norway and the Holocaust by focusing on how Norwegian Jews and those who facilitated their rescue remembered the experience of their departure and passage across hostile territory to sanctuary in Sweden. After Norway was ...
Hitler's Party Comrades: The NSDAP Party Members, 1919–1945
1st Edition
By Jürgen W. Falter
August 19, 2025
This study is the first to analyze both the Nazi party’s membership development and composition, as well as the motives for joining and the exoneration strategies of former party members chosen during the denazification process. This book examines how many members joined the party between 1919...
Escaping Nazi Europe: Understanding the Experiences of Belgian Soldiers and Civilians in World War II
1st Edition
By Bernard Wilkin, Bob Moore
July 31, 2025
This book chronicles the escapes attempted by Belgian soldiers and civilians from Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War. Insofar as is practical, the authors have tried to let the subjects speak for themselves by making extensive use of their testimonies preserved in archives in Belgium ...
Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945–2023
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuel Bragança, Peter Tame
July 31, 2025
This edited volume is a sequel to, and a development of, The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936–2016 (2016). It focuses on the six major European countries and states that remained officially neutral throughout the Second World War, namely Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, ...
The Allied Bombing of Central Italy: The Restoration of the Nile Mosaic and Sanctuary of Fortuna at Palestrina
1st Edition
By Teresa Fava Thomas
July 31, 2025
The Allied Bombing of Central Italy examines the results of the Second World War Allied bombing campaign on Palestrina and Rome, Italy, and the long-term impact of the war on the mountainside town and on the Barberini family's art collection including the Nile Mosaic. It explores the history and ...
Emotions in Yiddish Ghetto Diaries: Encountering Persecutors and Questioning Humanity
1st Edition
By Amy Simon
December 19, 2024
This book uses an empathic reading of Yiddish diarists’ feelings, evaluations, and assessments about persecutors in the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos to present an emotional history of persecution in the Nazi ghettos. It re-centers the daily experiences of psychological and physical violence ...
Politics of Death: The Cult of Nazi Martyrs, 1920-1939
1st Edition
By Jesús Casquete
December 18, 2024
To disentangle the National Socialists’ path to power in Germany, one must attend to the discursive strategies and liturgical practices employed by its emocrats, or manipulators of emotions. The apotheosis of martyrdom in the National Socialist propaganda template is far from being a marginal ...
The Partisans and Politics
1st Edition
By Jože Pirjevec
December 09, 2024
This book explores the military events and diplomatic games in the later years of the Second World War through which Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans resistance movement gained the support of the Allies and, eventually, control over Yugoslavia itself. Based on research by the author in Yugoslav...
The Partisans and War
1st Edition
By Jože Pirjevec
December 09, 2024
This book explores the rise of two resistance movements in Yugoslavia after its invasion and partition by Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria in April 1941: one led by Draža Mihailović's Chetniks, supporters of the Serb monarchy; and the Partisans, led by Josip Broz Tito and his Communist Party. ...
Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide
1st Edition
Edited
By Lori R. Weintrob, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
November 29, 2024
This book brings together international scholars to examine and share new approaches in the history of women’s rescue and resistance during the Holocaust and the Armenian and Rwandan genocide. The activities of women during the Holocaust have often been forgotten, erased, misunderstood, or ...
The Eastern Front: War, Myth, and Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Yan Mann, Olga Kucherenko
November 14, 2024
The Second World War in Eastern Europe is far from a neglected topic, especially since social, cultural, and diplomatic historians have entered a field previously dominated by operational histories, and produced a cornucopia of new scholarship offering a more nuanced picture from both sides of the ...
A Marketplace Without Jews: Aryanization and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Rory Yeomans
November 11, 2024
This book examines the economics of everyday life and the Final Solution in Southeastern Europe, specifically the role that the mass confiscation of Jewish property and exclusion of Jews as well as other undesired population groups from the national marketplace in Southeastern Europe played in ...