War volunteering in modern times : from the French Revolution to the Second World War / edited by Christine G. Krüger (Assistant professor, The Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany) and Sonja Levsen (Assistant professor, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Introduction: Volunteers, war, and the nation since the French Revolution / Christine Krüger & Sonja Levsen -- Volunteers of the French Revolutionary wars : myths and reinterpretations / Thomas Hippler -- For the Fatherland? : the motivations of Austrian and Prussian volunteers during the Revol...
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| Other Authors: | Krüger, Christine G. (Editor) Levsen, Sonja (Editor) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 |
| Edition: | 1. publ |
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| Online Access: | Book review (H-Net) Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension |
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| Introduction: Volunteers, war, and the nation since the French Revolution Christine Krüger & Sonja Levsen |
| Volunteers of the French Revolutionary wars : myths and reinterpretations Thomas Hippler |
| For the Fatherland? : the motivations of Austrian and Prussian volunteers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Leighton 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 Ruth Leiserowitz |
| Fág an Bealeagh : Irish volunteers in the American Civil War Michael Hochgeschwender |
| "A race that is thus willing to die for its country" : African-American volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898 Matthias Speidel |
| British and imperial volunteers in the South African War Stephen M. Miller |
| Welcome but not that welcome : the relations between foreign volunteers and the Boers in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 Fransjohan Pretorius |
| Heroes or citizens? : the 1916 debate on Harvard volunteers in the "European War" Axel Jansen |
| Voluntary enlistment in the Great War : a European phenomenon? Alexander Watson |
| Paramilitary volunteers for Weimar Germany's "Wehrhaftmachung" : how civilians were attracted to serve with irregular military units Rüdiger Bergien |
| Fighting for God, for Franco, and (most of all) for themselves : right wing volunteers in the Spanish Civil War Judith Keene |
| From the Nazi Party's shock troop to the "European" mass army : the Waffen-SS volunteers Jean-Luc Leleu |
| An approach to the social profile and the ideological motivations of the Spanish volunteers of the "Blue Division," 1941-44 Xosé-Manoel Núñez |
| Women in combat : female volunteers in British anti-aircraft batteries in the Second World War Jutta Schwarzkopf. |
