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From Byron to bin Laden : A History of Foreign War Volunteers / Nir Arielli.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674979567
  • 9780674982208
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.2/2362 23
LOC classification:
  • UB321 .A75 2018eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Summary: What makes people fight for countries other than their own? Nir Arielli offers a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the French Revolution to Syria. Challenging notions of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli explores motivations, ideology, gender, international law, military significance, and the memory of war.
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What makes people fight for countries other than their own? Nir Arielli offers a wide-ranging history of foreign-war volunteers, from the French Revolution to Syria. Challenging notions of foreign fighters as a security problem, Arielli explores motivations, ideology, gender, international law, military significance, and the memory of war.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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