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.
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 ...
National Perspectives on the Global Second World War
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashley Jackson
October 09, 2024
This collection of essays, written by authors of different nationalities, explores the experiences of the countries that were not numbered among the Second World War’s major belligerents, including colonies, 'lesser' powers, and neutral nation states. The story of the war is often dominated by the...
Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945: Bombing among Friends
1st Edition
By Matthew Evangelista
August 26, 2024
Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before, when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy’s surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy, 1940–1945 addresses this ...
Hitler’s Allies: The Ramifications of Nazi Alliance Politics in World War II
1st Edition
By John P. Miglietta
September 25, 2023
This book examines the significance of alliances in the international system, focusing on the dynamics between great and regional powers, and on the alliances Nazi Germany made during World War II, and their implications for Germany. It examines a variety of case studies and looks at how each...
Jewish Art in Nazi Germany: The Jewish Cultural League in Bavaria
1st Edition
By Dana Smith
September 25, 2023
This book provides a social and cultural history of Jewish art in Nazi Germany, with a focus on the Jewish artists, art critics, and audiences in Nazi Bavaria. From the time of its conceptualization in the autumn of 1933 until its final curtain call in November 1938, the Jewish Cultural League in ...
Jewish Child Soldiers in the Bloodlands of Europe
1st Edition
By David M. Rosen
September 25, 2023
This book is about the experiences of Jewish children who were members of armed partisan groups in Eastern Europe during World War II and the Holocaust. It describes and analyze the role of children as activists, agents, and decision makers in a situation of extraordinary danger and stress. The ...
The Global Infrastructure of the Special Operations Executive
1st Edition
By Derwin Gregory
September 25, 2023
During the Second World War, the British government established the Special Operations Executive (SOE) for the purpose of coordinating ‘all action, by way of subversion and sabotage, against the enemy overseas’. Although the overseas operations of this branch of the British Secret Services are ...