From Byron to bin Laden: a history of foreign war volunteers
What makes people fight and risk their lives for a country other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as the poet Lord Byron, the writer George Orwell, the Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara, and the young Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden all turn to foreign military service? From Byro...
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| Summary: | What makes people fight and risk their lives for a country other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as the poet Lord Byron, the writer George Orwell, the Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara, and the young Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden all turn to foreign military service? From Byron to bin Laden makes a historian's examines the phenomenon of war volunteers who have travelled abroad to fight on the basis of a personal decision, without being sent by their governments and not strictly for the sake of material gain. Although fighting for very different causes, these volunteers shared a number of commonalities; they tended to superimpose their beliefs and perceptions on the wars they joined, while a personal search for meaning invariably underlined their actions. Through a comprehensive study of the history of foreign volunteering from the wars of the French Revolution to the present, the book opens up a broad range of questions that relate to individual motivations, ideology, gender, state-citizen relations, international law, military significance, radicalization and the memory of war.... |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | 295 Seiten |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
ONLY A NATION IN ARMS? FOREIGNERS IN MILITARY SERVICE BEFORE 1815
ATTRACTIVE CONFLICTS: THE CHANGING IDEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
A SEARCH FOR MEANING: DECIPHERING MOTIVATIONS
THOUGHTS OF HOME: A TYPOLOGY OF VOLUNTEER-STATE RELATIONS
CONTROLLING THE FLOW: GOVERNMENTAL RESPONSES, LEGISLATION, AND SUPPORT
NETWORKS
WINNING WARS? ASSESSING MILITARY SIGNIFICANCE
THE DARK SIDE: TROUBLEMAKERS, SOLDIERS OF MISFORTUNE, AND TERRORISTS
LINKS IN A CHAIN: MEMORY AND MYTH
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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