Fighters across frontiers : transnational resistance in Europe, 1936-48 / edited by Robert Gildea and Ismee Tames.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gildea, Robert, editor.

Tames, Ismee, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Influence.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements.

World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories.

Europe--History--1918-1945.

Europe.

Europe--History--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This landmark book, the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters across Europe resisted 'transnationally', travelling to join networks far from their homes. These 'foreigners' were often communists and Jews who were already being persecuted and on the move. Others were expatriate business people, escaped POWs, forced labourers or deserters. Their experiences would prove personally transformative and greatly affected the course of the conflict. From the International Brigades in Spain to the onset of the Cold War and the foundation of the state of Israel, they played a significant part in a period of upheaval and change during the long Second World War.

Contents:

Introduction / Robert Gildea and Ismee Tames

'For your freedom and ours!' : transnational experiences in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 / Samuël Kruizinga with Christina Diac, Enrico Acciai, Franziska Zaugg, Ginta Ieva Bikše, Olga Manojlović Pintar and Yaacov Falkov

The 'Spanish matrix' : transnational catalyst of Europe's anti- Nazi resistance / Yaacov Falkov and Mercedes Yusta-Rodrigo with Olga Manojlović Pintar, Diego Gaspar Celaya, Cristina Diac and Jason Chandrinos

Camps as crucibles of transnational resistance / Robert Gildea with Jorge Marco, Diego Gaspar Celaya, Milovan Pisarri, Enrico Acciai, Bojan Aleksov and Yaacov Falkov

From regular armies to irregular resistance (and back) / Zdenko Maršálek and Diego Gaspar Celaya

Inherently transnational : escape lines / Megan Koreman, Diego Gaspar Celaya and Lennert Savenije

Transnational perspectives on Jews in the resistance / Renee Poznanski, Bojan Aleksov and Robert Gildea

SOE and transnational resistance / Roderick Bailey

Transnational guerrillas in the 'shatter zones' of the Balkans and Eastern Front / Franziska Zaugg and Yaacov Falkov with Enrico Acciai, Jason Chandrinos, Olga Manojlović Pintar, Srdjan Milošević and Milovan Pisarri

Transnational uprisings : Warsaw, Paris, Slovakia / Laurent Douzou, Yaacov Falkov and Vít Smetana

Afterlives and memories / Robert Gildea and Olga Manojlović Pintar with Mercedes Yusta Rodrigo, Jorge Marco, Diego Gaspar Celaya, Roderick Bailey, Jason Chandrinos, Cristina Diac, Zdenko Maršálek, Franziska Zaugg, Bojan Aleksov, Yaacov Falkov and Megan Koreman

Conclusion / Ismee Tames and Robert Gildea.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on e-Publication, viewed on January 4, 2021.

ISBN:

9781526151247

1526151243

9781526151230

1526151235

OCLC:

1224155194