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War Volunteering in Modern Times
From the French Revolution to the Second World War
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eBook - PDF
War Volunteering in Modern Times
From the French Revolution to the Second World War
About this book
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 volunteersin 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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Yes, you can access War Volunteering in Modern Times by C. G. Krüger, S. Levsen, C. G. Krüger,S. Levsen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Introduction: Volunteers, War, and the Nation since the French Revolution
- 2. Volunteers of the French Revolutionary Wars: Myths and Reinterpretations
- 3. For the Fatherland? The Motivations of Austrian and Prussian Volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
- 4. Polish Volunteers in the Napoleonic Wars
- 5. Fág an Bealeagh: Irish Volunteers in the American Civil War
- 6. "A Race That Is Thus Willing To Die For Its Country": African-American Volunteers in the Spanish-American War 1898
- 7. British and Imperial Volunteers in the South African War
- 8. Welcome but Not That Welcome: The Relations between Foreign Volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902
- 9. Heroes or Citizens? The 1916 Debate on Harvard Volunteers in the "European War"
- 10. Voluntary Enlistment in the Great War: a European Phenomenon?
- 11. Paramilitary Volunteers for Weimar Germany's "Wehrhaftmachung": how Civilians were attracted to serve with Irregular Military Units
- 12. Fighting for God, for Franco and (most of all) for Themselves: Right-Wing Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
- 13. From the Nazi Party's Shock Troop to the "European" Mass Army: The Waffen-SS Volunteers
- 14. An Approach to the Social Profile and the Ideological Motivations of the Spanish Volunteers of the "BlueDivision", 1941–44
- 15. Women in Combat: Female Volunteers in British Anti-Aircraft Batteries in the Second World War
- Index