1st Edition
Foreign Fighters and Multinational Armies From Civil Conflicts to Coalition Wars, 1848-2015
Introduction – Foreign fighters and multinational armies: from civil conflicts to coalition wars, 1848–2015
Steven O’Connor and Guillaume Piketty
PART I: The impact of foreign soldiers and foreign fighters
over the Longue Durée
1. Foreign military labour in Europe’s transition to modernity
Peter H. Wilson
2. Workers of the world, unite! Communist foreign fighters 1917–91
David Malet
3. Foreign fighters and war volunteers: between myth and reality
Nir Arielli
PART II: The motivations and experiences of foreign fighters
4. Why they fought: the initial motivations of German American soldiers who fought for the Union in the American Civil War
Anthony J. Cade II
5. ‘Me among the Turks?’: Western commanders in the Late Ottoman Army and their self-narratives
Houssine Alloul
6. ‘The recognized adjunct of modern armies’: foreign volunteerism and the South African War
Wm. Matthew Kennedy and Chris Holdridge
7. Fear and Loathing in Spain. Dutch Foreign Fighters in the Spanish Civil War
Samuël Kruizinga
PART III: The nature of coalition warfare during the Second World War
8. ‘Not on a purely nationalistic basis’: the internationalism of Allied coalition warfare in the Second World War
Th. W. Bottelier
9. The Free French and British forces in the Desert War, 1942: the learning curve in interallied military cooperation
Steven O’Connor
10. The Palestinian triangle: Czechoslovaks, Jews and the British Crown in the Middle East, 1940–1943
Paul Lenormand
Biography
Steven O’Connor is Lecturer in British History and Institutions at Sorbonne University, Paris, France. His research focuses on coalition warfare, 1914-1945, the integration of non-British soldiers in the British army and Irish military history. He previously published Irish Officers in the British Forces, 1922-45 (2014).
Guillaume Piketty is Full Professor in History at Sciences Po, Paris, France. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of World War II in France and Europe, and, more broadly, on war, resistance, coming out of war and society since the beginning of the US Civil War.
