How fighting ends : a history of surrender / edited by Holger Afflerbach and Hew Strachan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Afflerbach, Holger.

Strachan, Hew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitulations, Military--History.

Capitulations, Military.

War--History.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The history of surrender is one of the most neglected in the history of war, and yet it is vital to understanding not only how wars end but also how they are contained. This is a book with a chronological sweep that runs from the Stone Age to the present day, written by a team of truly distinguished scholars.

Contents:

Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; How fighting ends: a history of surrender; PART I. NO QUARTER? THE BEGINNINGS OF SURRENDER; 1. Surrender and prisoners in prehistoric and tribal societies; 2. Surrender in ancient Greece; 3. Surrender in ancient Rome; PART II. LEARNING TO SURRENDER? THE MIDDLE AGES; Introduction: Surrender in medieval times; 4. Surrender in medieval Europe-an indirect approach; 5. Surrender and capitulation in the Middle East in the age of the Crusades

6. Basil II the Bulgar-slayer and the blinding of 15,000 Bulgarians in 1014: Mutilation and prisoners of war in the Middle AgesPART III. THE DEVELOPMENT OF RULES AND REGULATIONS: SURRENDER IN EARLY MODERN TIMES; Introduction: Honourable surrender in early modern European history, 1500-1789; PART III: A. SURRENDER IN INTERCULTURAL WARS; 7. How fighting ended in the Aztec empire and its surrender to the Europeans; 8. Surrender in the northeastern borderlands of Native America; PART III: B. SURRENDER IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE; 9. Surrender in the Thirty Years War

10. Surrender and the laws of war in western Europe, c. 1650-178311. Ritual performance: Surrender during the American War of Independence; PART IV. A QUESTION OF HONOUR: SURRENDER IN SEA WARFARE; 12. Going down with flying colours? Naval surrender from Elizabethan to our own times; PART V. THE TIMES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW: SURRENDER IN MODERN WARS; Introduction: Surrender in modern warfare since the French Revolution; PART V: A. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; 13. 'Civilized, rational behaviour'? The concept and practice of surrender in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1792-1815

14. Robert E. Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia, and Confederate surrender15. Surrender in Britain's small colonial wars of the nineteenth century; PART V: B. SURRENDER IN WORLD WAR I; 16. Surrender of soldiers in World War I; 17. By the book? Commanders surrendering in World War I; 18. The breaking point: Surrender 1918; PART VI. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER? WORLD WAR II; Introduction: Surrender in World War II; PART VI: A. 'CONVENTIONAL' SURRENDERS; 19. French surrender in 1940: Soldiers, commanders, civilians; 20. The issue of surrender in the Malayan campaign, 1941-2

21. 'Neither defeat nor surrender': Italy's change of alliances in 1943PART VI: B. GERMANY AND JAPAN IN WORLD WAR II; 22. German soldiers and surrender, 1945; 23. Kamikaze warfare in imperial Japan's existential crisis, 1944-5; 24. The German surrender of 1945; PART VII. OUR TIMES: ASYMMETRIC WARS-ENDLESS WARS AND NO SURRENDER?; 25. Kosovo, the Serbian surrender, and the western dilemma: Achieving victories with low casualties; 26. How fighting ends: asymmetric wars, terrorism, and suicide bombing; CONCLUSION; 'A true chameleon'? Some concluding remarks on the history of surrender; Index; A

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 24, 2012).

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-19-174059-4

0-19-162454-3

9786613889324

1-283-57687-2

OCLC:

922971229