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War Volunteering in Modern Times

From the French Revolution to the Second World War

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK | e druk, 2011
ISBN13: 9781349309931
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Exploring volunteering as a characteristic of modern wars, this book examines why individuals go to war. It studies the motivations, social backgrounds and military experiences of war volunteers in a wide range of conflicts since the French Revolution, and helps to interpret the relationship between war and society in modern times.

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ISBN13:9781349309931
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Introduction: Volunteers, War and the Nation since the French Revolution; C.G.Krüger & S.Levsen Volunteers of the French Revolutionary Wars: Myths and Reinterpretations; T.Hippler For the Fatherland? The Motivations of Austrian and Prussian Volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars; L.S.James '... so that people talk about Poland out loud again in the world today!' (Adam Mickiewicz, Pan Tadeusz): Polish Volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars; R.Leiserowitz Fág an Bealeagh: Irish Volunteers in the American Civil War; M.Hochgeschwender 'A Race that is Thus Willing to Die for its Country': African-American Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898; M.Speidel British and Imperial Volunteers in the South African War; S.M.Miller Welcome but not that Welcome: the Relations between Foreign Volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902; F.Pretorius Heroes or Citizens? The 1916 Debate on Harvard Volunteers in the 'European War'; A.Jansen Voluntary Enlistment in the Great War: a European Phenomenon?; A.Watson Paramilitary Volunteers for Weimar Germany's 'Wehrhaftmachung': How Civilians were Attracted to Serve with Irregular Military Units; R.Bergien Fighting for God for Franco and (most of all) for Themselves: Right Wing Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; J.Keene From the Nazi Party's Shock Troop to the 'European' Mass Army: The Waffen-SS Volunteers; J-L.Leleu An Approach to the Social Profile and the Ideological Motivations of the Spanish Volunteers of the 'Blue Division', 1941-44; X-M.Núñez Seixas Women in Combat: Female Volunteers in British Anti-Aircraft Batteries in the Second World War; J.Schwarzkopf

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