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.
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 ...
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 ...