Foreign Fighters and Multinational Armies

Foreign Fighters and Multinational Armies

From Civil Conflicts to Coalition Wars, 1848-2015

O'Connor, Steven; Piketty, Guillaume

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2022

234

Dura

Inglês

9781032233819

15 a 20 dias

612

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Introduction - Foreign fighters and multinational armies: from civil conflicts to coalition wars, 1848-2015 PART I: The impact of foreign soldiers and foreign fighters over the Longue Duree 1. Foreign military labour in Europe's transition to modernity 2. Workers of the world, unite! Communist foreign fighters 1917-91 3. Foreign fighters and war volunteers: between myth and reality PART II: The motivations and experiences of foreign fighters 4. Why they fought: the initial motivations of German American soldiers who fought for the Union in the American Civil War 5. 'Me among the Turks?': Western commanders in the Late Ottoman Army and their self-narratives 6. 'The recognized adjunct of modern armies': foreign volunteerism and the South African War 7. Fear and Loathing in Spain. Dutch Foreign Fighters in the Spanish Civil War PART III: The nature of coalition warfare during the Second World War 8. 'Not on a purely nationalistic basis': the internationalism of Allied coalition warfare in the Second World War 9. The Free French and British forces in the Desert War, 1942: the learning curve in interallied military cooperation 10. The Palestinian triangle: Czechoslovaks, Jews and the British Crown in the Middle East, 1940-1943
Young Men;Foreign Fighters;European Foreign Fighters;Foreign Volunteers;UN;Desert War;Free French Forces;Free French;IB;Dutch Volunteer;Foreign Soldiers;Syrian Civil War;General Charles De Gaulle;Czechoslovak Legions;Middle East Command;Spears Mission;Bir Hakeim;Czechoslovak Units;Eighth Army;Czechoslovak Soldiers;Dutch CP;Czechoslovak Leaders;Transnational Jihadi Movement;Ottoman Military;Czechoslovak Jews