Fighters across frontiers : transnational resistance in Europe, 1936-48 / edited by Robert Gildea and Ismee Tames

This landmark book, the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. -- Tens of thousands of fighters across Eu...

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Otros Autores:Gildea, Robert (Editor )
Tames, Ismee (Editor )
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020
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Front Matter
Contents
List of plates
List of maps
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Chronology of events
Acknowledgements
Introduction
'For your freedom and ours!': transnational experiences in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39
The 'Spanish matrix': transnational catalyst of Europe's anti-Nazi resistance
Camps as crucibles of transnational resistance
From regular armies to irregular resistance (and back)
Inherently transnational: escape lines
Transnational perspectives on Jews in the resistance
SOE and transnational resistance
Transnational guerrillas in the 'shatter zones' of the Balkans and Eastern Front
Transnational uprisings: Warsaw, Paris, Slovakia
Plates
Afterlives and memories
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.