Screen LibraryWar volunteering in modern times from the French Revolution to the Second World War /
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...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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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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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230228054, 2010. |
| Carrier Form: | 312 p. : 4 ill. |
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9780230228054 9780230290525 : 0230290523 : |
| CLC: | K15 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Volunteers, War and the Nation since the French Revolution-- C.G.Kruger & 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 Fag 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.Nunez Seixas Women in Combat: Female Volunteers in British Anti-Aircraft Batteries in the Second World War-- J.Schwarzkopf. |