Suggested References

Chapter 27 Review: Suggested References

New nationhood and the postwar era are charted in exciting new books that study veterans, youth, and daily life in the aftermath of Nazism and an age of cold war. Historians are also focusing on the complexities of decolonization.

Anslover, Nicole L. Harry Truman: The Coming of the Cold War. 2014.

Bailkin, Jordanna. The Afterlife of Empire. 2012.

Burleigh, Michael. Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945–1965. 2013.

Chin, Rita, et al., eds. After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe. 2009

Demshuk, Andrew. The Lost German East: Forced Migration and the Politics of Memory 1945–1970. 2012.

Edele, Mark. Soviet Veterans of World War II: A Popular Movement in an Authoritarian Society, 1941–1991. 2008.

Finn, Peter, and Petra Couvée. The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book. 2014.

Frommer, Benjamin. National Cleansing: Retribution against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia. 2005.

Gaddis, John. George Kennan: An American Life. 2011.

Jobs, Richard I. Riding the New Wave: Youth and the Rejuvenation of France after World War II. 2007.

Meng, Michael. Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland. 2011.

Nord, Philip. France’s New Deal: From the Thirties to the Postwar Era. 2010.

Pence, Katherine, and Paul Betts, eds. Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics. 2008.

Shepard, Todd. The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France. 2006.

Shipway, Martin. Decolonization and Its Impact: A Comparative Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires. 2008.

Smith, Mark B. Property of Communists: The Urban Housing Program from Stalin to Khrushchev. 2010.