Home front during World War II
- Cohen, Jerome (1949). Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction. University of Minnesota Press. online version.
- Davies, Norman (2004). Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw. Vikiing. ISBN 0-67003284-0.
- Gutman, Israel (1994). Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-039560199-0.
- Hancock, W. K. and Gowing, M.M. (1949). British War Economy: History of the Second World War: United Kingdom Civil Series. London: HMSO and Longmans, Green & Co. Available on-line at: British War Economy.
- Harrison, Mark (1988). "Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., UK, USSR and Germany, 1938-1945". In: Economic History Review, (1988): pp 171-92.
- Postan, Michael (1952). British War Production: History of the Second World War: United Kingdom Civil Series. London: HMSO and Longmans, Green & Co. Available on-line at: British War Production.
- Titmuss, Richard M. (1950). Problems of Social Policy: 'History of the Second World War: United Kingdom Civil Series. London: HMSO and Longmans, Green & Co. Available on-line at: Problems of Social Policy.
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Further reading
- General
- WWII Homefront - Collection of color photographs of the homefront during World War II
- Beck, Earl R. The European Home Fronts, 1939-1945 Harlan Davidson, 1993, brief
- Costello, John. Love, Sex, and War: Changing Values, 1939-1945 1985. US title: Virtue under Fire: How World War II Changed Our Social and Sexual Attitudes
- I.C.B. Dear and M.R.D. Foot, eds. The Oxford Companion to World War II (1995), detailed articles on every country
- Harrison, Mark. "Resource Mobilization for World War II: The U.S.A., UK, USSR and Germany, 1938-1945". Economic History Review (1988): 171-92.
- Higonnet, Margaret R., et al., eds. Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars Yale UP, 1987.
- Loyd, E. Lee, ed.; World War II in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with General Sources: A Handbook of Literature and Research Greenwood Press. 1997. 525pp bibliographic guide
- Loyd, E. Lee, ed.; World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research Greenwood Press, 1998
- Marwick, Arthur. War and Social Change in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study of Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States 1974.
- Milward, Alan. War, Economy and Society 1977 covers homefront of major participants
- Noakes, Jeremy ed., The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A. in World War II Exeter, UK: University of Exeter, 1992.
- Wright, Gordon. The Ordeal of Total War 1968., covers all of Europe
- 10 Eventful Years: 1937-1946 4 vol. Encyclopedia Britannica, 1947. Highly detailed encyclopedia of events in every country.
- Nissen, Henrik S. Scandinavia During the Second World War (1983) (ISBN 0-8166-1110-6)
- Australia and New Zealand
- S.J. Butlin and C.B. Schedvin, War Economy 1942–1945, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, 1997
- Darian-Smith, Kate. On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939-1945. Australia: Oxford UP, 1990.
- Saunders, Kay. War on the Homefront: State Intervention in Queensland, 1938-1948 (1993)
- The Home Front Volume I by Nancy M. Taylor NZ official history (1986)
- The Home Front Volume II by Nancy M. Taylor NZ official history (1986)
- Political and External Affairs by Frederick Lloyd Whitfeld (1958) NZ official history
- Britain
- Brivati, Brian, and Harriet Jones, ed. What Difference Did the War Make? The Impact of the Second World War on British Institutions and Culture. Leicester UP; 1993.
- Calder, Angus . The People's War: Britain 1939-45 (1969)
- Corelli, Barnett. The Audit of War: The Illusion and Reality of Britain as a Great Nation. 1986.
- Hancock, W. K. and Gowing, M.M. (1949) British War Economy (official History of the Second World War). London: HMSO and Longmans, Green & Co. Available on line at: British War Economy.
- Hancock, W. K. (1951) Statistical Digest of the War (official History of the Second World War). London: HMSO and Longmans, Green & Co. Available on line at: Statistical Digest of the War.
- Harris, Carol (2000). Women at War 1939-1945: The Home Front. Thrupp: Sutton Publishing Limited. ISBN 0-7509-2536-1.
- Marwick, Arthur (1976). The Home Front: The British and the Second World War. .
- Postan, Michael (1952) British War Production (official History of the Second World War). London: HMSO and Longmans, Green & Co. Available on line at: British War Production.
- Rose, Sonya O. (2003) Which People's War?: National Identity and Citizenship in Wartime Britain 1939-1945
- Titmuss, Richard M. (1950) Problems of Social Policy. (official History of the Second World War). London: HMSO and Longmans, Green & Co. Available on line at: Problems of Social Policy official history
- Canada
- Buch, Mary and Carolyn Gossage. (1997). Props on Her Sleeve: The Wartime Letters of a Canadian Airwoman. Toronto: Dundurn Press.
- Cottam, J. Kazimiera. (1988). Women in War and Resistance. Nepean, Ontario: New Military Publishing.
- Granatstein, J. L. Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government. Oxford UP, 1975.
- Granatstein, J. L., and Desmond Morton. A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War, 1939-1945 1989.
- Keshen, Jeffrey A. Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War (2004)
- Latta, Ruth. (1992). The Memory of All That: Canadian Women Remember World War II. Burnstown, Ontario: The General Store Publishing House Inc..
- Pierson, Ruth Roach. They're Still Women After All: The Second World War and Canadian Womanhood. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1986.
- China
- Eastman Lloyd. Seeds of Destruction: Nationalist China in War and Revolution, 1937- 1945. Stanford University Press, 1984
- John Fairbank and Albert Feuerwerker, eds., Republican China 1912-1949 in The Cambridge History of China, vol. 13, part 2. Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- James C. Hsiung and Steven I. Levine, eds. China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937–1945 M. E. Sharpe, 1992
- Ch'i Hsi-sheng, Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937–1945 University of Michigan Press, 1982
- France
- Gildea, Robert. Marianne in Chains: Daily Life in the Heart of France During the German Occupation (2004)
- Jackson, Julian. France: The Dark Years, 1940-1944 (2003)
- Paxton, Robert O. Vichy France 2nd ed. (2001)
- Germany
- Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (2000)
- Hagemann, Karen and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum; Home/Front: The Military, War, and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany Berg, 2002
- Kalder N. "The German War Economy". Review of Economic Studies 13 (1946): 33-52.
- Victor Klemperer. I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years (2001), memoir by partly-Jewish professor
- Milward, Alan. The German Economy at War 1965.
- Overy, Richard. War and Economy in the Third Reich Oxford UP, 1994.
- Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs 1970.
- Italy
- Absalom, R, "Italy", in J. Noakes (ed.), The Civilian in War: The Home Front in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A. in World War II. Exeter: Exęter University Press. 1992.
- Tracy Koon, Believe, Obey, Fight: Political Socialization in Fascist Italy 1922-1943 (U North Carolina Press, 1985),
- Morgan, D. Italian Fascism, 1919-1945 (1995)
- Wilhelm, Maria de Blasio. The Other Italy: Italian Resistance in World War II. W. W. Norton, 1988. 272 pp.
- Japan
- Cohen, Jerome. Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction. University of Minnesota Press, 1949. online version
- Cook, Haruko Taya, and Theodore Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History 1992.
- Dower, John. Japan in War and Peace 1993.
- Duus Peter, Ramon H. Myers, and Mark R. Peattie. The Japanese Wartime Empire, 1931-1945. Princeton UP 1996. 375p.
- Havens, Thomas R. Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War II. 1978.
- Havens, Thomas R. "Women and War in Japan, 1937-1945." American Historical Review 80 (1975): 913-934. online in JSTOR
- Poland
- Davies, Norman. Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (2004)
- Gross, Jan T. Polish Society under German Occupation: The Generalgouvernement, 1939-1944. Princeton UP, 1979.
- Gross, Jan T. Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia (1988).
- Gutman, Israel. Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1998)
- Redlich, Shimon. Together and Apart in Brzezany: Poles, Jews, and Ukrainians, 1919-1945. Indiana U. Press, 2002. 202 pp.
- Soviet Union
- Barber, Bo, and Mark Harrison. The Soviet Home Front: A Social and Economic History of the USSR in World War II, Longman, 1991.
- Braithwaite, Rodric. Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War (2006)
- Thurston, Robert W., and Bernd Bonwetsch (Eds). The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (2000)
- Berkhoff, Karel C. Harvest of Despair: Life and Death in Ukraine Under Nazi Rule. Harvard U. Press, 2004. 448 pp.
- Dallin, Alexander. Odessa, 1941-1944: A Case Study of Soviet Territory under Foreign Rule. Portland: Int. Specialized Book Service, 1998. 296 pp.
- Vallin, Jacques; Meslé, France; Adamets, Serguei; and Pyrozhkov, Serhii. "A New Estimate of Ukrainian Population Losses During the Crises of the 1930s and 1940s." Population Studies (2002) 56(3): 249-264. Issn: 0032-4728 Fulltext in Jstor. Reports life expectancy at birth fell to a level as low as ten years for females and seven for males in 1933 and plateaued around 25 for females and 15 for males in the period 1941-44.
- Norway
- Andenaes, Johs, et al. Norway and the Second World War (ISBN 82-518-1777-3) Oslo: Johan Grundt Tanum Forlag, 1966.
- Salmon; Patrick (Ed.) Britain and Norway in the Second World War London: HMSO, 1995.
- United States
- Bard, Mitchell, Ph.D. (1999). Complete Idiot’s Guide to World War II. United States of America: Alpha Books.
- Berkin, Carol R. and Clara M. Lovett. (1980). Women, War, & Revolution. London: Holmes and Meier Publishers.
- Philippines
- Agoncillo Teodoro A. The Fateful Years: Japan's Adventure in the Philippines, 1941-1945. Quezon City, PI: R.P. Garcia Publishing Co., 1965. 2 vols
- Hartendorp A. V.H. The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. Manila: Bookmark, 1967. 2 vols.
- Lear, Elmer. The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines: Leyte, 1941-1945. Southeast Asia Program, Department of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University, 1961. 246p. emphasis on social history
- Steinberg, David J. Philippine Collaboration in World War II. University of Michigan Press, 1967. 235p.
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