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.
Jews, Suicide, and the Holocaust
1st Edition
By Mark A. Mengerink
December 01, 2026
This accessible study examines the Holocaust’s “forgotten victims” – Jews and other victims who suicided from 1939 to 1945. Using diaries, survivor memoirs, and survivor interviews, the manuscript places suicide victims and their experiences into the traditional Holocaust narrative. From ...
The Mechanics of Death: Architectures of Extermination in the Nazi State
1st Edition
By Xabier Irujo
October 05, 2026
Drawing directly on primary documentary evidence of the Holocaust, this book returns to the raw archival foundations of genocide understanding to interrogate the systems, logistics, and procedural mechanisms that transformed ideological hatred into industrialized murder. Rather than focusing on ...
Heroines of the Holocaust: Reframing Resistance and Courage in Genocide
1st Edition
Edited
By Lori R. Weintrob, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
July 20, 2026
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 Partisans and War
1st Edition
By Jože Pirjevec
July 20, 2026
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. ...
The Partisans and Politics
1st Edition
By Jože Pirjevec
June 22, 2026
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...
German Prisoners of the Second World War in the United States
1st Edition
By Amy C. Hudnall
March 25, 2026
German Prisoners of the Second World War in the United States examines the complex lives of German POWs held on American soil during WWII, exploring camp policies, internal conflicts, and their lasting impact on prisoner mental health. This comprehensive historical analysis reveals the untold story...
Holocaust History, Holocaust Memory: Jewish Poland and Polish Jews, During and After the Holocaust
1st Edition
Edited
By Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Lea Ganor
December 26, 2025
This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects. While the first three parts of the book focus on "text," the broad ...
Flight and Rescue from Norway during the Holocaust
1st Edition
By Paul R. Bartrop
December 12, 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 ...
Jerusalem in the Second World War
1st Edition
By Daphna Sharfman
November 28, 2025
This book is the first to present the unique story of the city of Jerusalem during the events of the Second World War and how it played a unique role in both the military and civilian aspects of the war. Whilst Jerusalem is usually known for topics such as religion, archaeology, or the politics of ...
Evacuee Encounters on the Soviet Home Front During the Second World War
1st Edition
By Natalie Belsky
September 29, 2025
This study is the first to examine the experiences of the millions of Soviet civilians evacuated to the interior of the country during the Second World War in the context of their encounters and relations with local communities and populations across Soviet Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and ...
The Crisis of British Sea Power: The Collapse of a Naval Hegemon 1942
1st Edition
By James Levy
September 29, 2025
This work is a close examination of the conditions surrounding and precipitating the last gasp of British naval hegemony and events that led to its demise. Great Britain undertook a massive naval building program in the late-1930s in order to deter aggression and secure dominance at sea against ...
Warlord Hitler: With Reference to the Campaign in Southern Russia in 1942
1st Edition
By Alan Donohue
September 29, 2025
This book is a study of Adolf Hitler in his role as military commander and strategist from the beginning of the Second World War until the end of 1942, examining in detail the campaign in southern Russia that year. The thesis challenges the post-war narrative of Hitler as a dilettante who was ...