GHIL Library

The library of the GHIL is an important and well-regarded institution for British historians of German history, students at London universities, and the general public. Its holdings on German history, British-German relations from the Middle Ages to the present day, and wider European history are comprehensive, up to date, free to use, and form a unique collection in Britain.
Visiting and joining the Library

The library is open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-9pm. Library staff are available for enquiries 9.30am-5pm. After 5pm, the library is staffed by security personnel only and entry is restricted to registered readers with a library card.
New readers should book an appointment (email: library@ghil.ac.uk) for a virtual induction (offered via Zoom, Mondays 12pm and Wednesdays 4pm, or by arrangement) before their first visit, or, if they prefer, visit the Institute for an in-person induction. Registration for a library card should be completed at reception after the induction. Please note that induction and registration will normally only take place 9.30am-5pm.
Library staff are also available for general enquiries at library@ghil.ac.uk. If appropriate, we may offer you advice via a video call to our Virtual Enquiry Desk.

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly
Beauty or Beast? The woman warrior in the German imagination from the Renaissance to the present
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010
Sa.10/4220

Raffael Scheck
Love between enemies : western prisoners of war and German women in World War II
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021
Sh.8/1382

Klaus Latzel, Franka Maubach et al. (eds.)
Soldatinnen : Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis heute
Paderborn : Schöningh, 2011
Fi/3215

Fabrice Virgili
Shorn Women : Gender and Punishment in Liberation France
Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Berg, 2002
Mkg.6/31 a

Susan R. Grayzel and Tammy M. Proctor (eds.)
Gender and the Great War
Oxford ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2017
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Christa Hämmerle, Oswald Überegger and Birgitta Bader Zaar (eds.)
Gender and the First World War
Basingstoke ; New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Df/2824/2

Maren Röger and Ruth Leiserowitz (eds.)
Women and Men at War : A Gender Perspective on World War II and its Aftermath in Central and Eastern Europe
Einzelveröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Warschau. 28
Osnabrueck : fibre, 2012
Ko/2710

Miriam Gebhardt
Crimes unspoken : the rape of German women at the end of the Second World War
Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2017
Sh.8/1376 a

Maren Röger
Kriegsbeziehungen : Intimität, Gewalt und Prostitution im besetzten Polen 1939 bis 1945
Die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Frankfurt/M. : Fischer, 2015
Sh.5/9003
Contact and opening hours
Contact
German Historical Institute Library
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ
Tel. +44-(0)20-7309 2050
Email: library@ghil.ac.uk
Opening hours
Monday-Friday: 9.30am-9pm