War Veterans and the World after 1945
This book examines war veterans history after 1945 from a global perspective. In the Cold War era, in most countries of the world, there was a sizeable portion of population with direct war experience. This edited volume gathers contributions that show the veterans involvement in all the major historical processes shaping the world after the Second World War. Cold War politics, racial conflict, decolonization, state-building and the reshaping of war memory were phenomena in which former soldiers and ex-combatants were directly involved. By examining how different veterans groups, movements and organizations challenged or sustained the Cold War, strived to prevent or to foster decolonization and transcended or supported official memories of war, the volume characterizes veterans as largely independent and autonomous actors who interacted with societies and states in the making of our times. Spanning historical cases from the United States to Hong Kong, from Europe to Southern Africa and from Algeria to Iran, the volume situates veterans within the turbulent international context since the Second World War.
ngel Alcalde obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2015. He was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich in 20162017. He has also been a visiting scholar at the European Institute at Columbia University (New York), the Leibniz-Institute for European History (Mainz) and the Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University. His latest book is War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Xos M. Nez Seixas is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (20122017). He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books on nationalist movements, national and regional identities, the history of migration and the cultural and social history of war in the twentieth century. His latest books are Die spanische Blaue Division an der Ostfront (19411945) (Aschendorff, 2016) and (ed.) Metaphors of Spain (Berghahn, 2017).
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ngel Alcalde obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2015. He was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich in 20162017. He has also been a visiting scholar at the European Institute at Columbia University (New York), the Leibniz-Institute for European History (Mainz) and the Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University. His latest book is War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
Samuel Andr-Bercovici is a PhD candidate at the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. His dissertation examines European local units and militias during the Algerian War of Independence. He has also conducted research on Algerian veterans organizations. He holds an MA degree in political science from Sciences Po and an MA in History from the Sorbonne.
Gary Baines is Professor and Head of Department at the History Department of Rhodes University (South Africa). He holds an MA from Rhodes University and a PhD from the University of Cape Town. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the African Studies Centre, University of Leiden (2011), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Toulouse (2015). He has spent the last several years writing about how the Border War is represented and remembered. His latest book is South Africas Border War. Contested Narratives and Conflicting Memories (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Olivier Burtin obtained his PhD from Princeton University. His dissertation explored US veterans groups after 1945, particularly the history of the American Legion. He holds a BA (2009) and an MA in History (2011, cum laude) from the Institut dEtudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and an MA in History from Princeton University (2013).
Jonathan Fennell is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Defence Studies at Kings College London. He was awarded a doctorate (2008) and a masters (2003) in History from the University of Oxford after completing a History and Politics degree at University College Dublin (2002). He is the author of Combat and Morale in the North African Campaign: The Eighth Army and the Path to El Alamein (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Grace Huxford, PhD, is Lecturer in British History at the University of Bristol, with particular interests in the history of Britain during the Cold War; oral history; selfhood; and the interaction between war, state and society. Her first monograph, The Korean War in Britain: Citizenship, Selfhood and Forgetting, was published by Manchester University Press (Cultural History of Modern War Series) in 2018.
Eric Lob is Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University (Miami). He holds a PhD from Princeton University (2013) and an MA degree from the John Hopkins University (2005). In 2013 and 2014, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University. He has published peer-reviewed articles in
