Exile Armies

ISBN-13: 9781349426041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 187 str.

M. Bennett; P. Latawski

Opis

Operating from outside their homelands, exile armies have been an understudied phenomenon in history and international politics. This collection of essays covers the experience of exiled forces in the Second World War, principally in Europe, and also covers their activities around the globe during the Cold War and beyond.

Spis treści

List of Tables Preface List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; M.Bennett & P.Latawski PART I: THE SECOND WORLD WAR 'The Army of Lords': The Independent Czechslovak Brigade 1940-45; A.Brown French Exile Armies 1940-44; A.Clayton Polish Exile Armies 1939-45: Manpower and Military Effectiveness; P.Latawski The Norwegian Army-in-Exile; C.Mann Jai Hind ! The Indian National Army, 1942-45; R.Havers PART II: COLD WAR AND BEYOND 'Things Were Bound to Happen': Cuban Exiles, the United States and the Bay of Pigs; M.A.Smith The Mukti Bahini - Midwife to a Nation; K.Blackmore African Exile Armies: ZANLA, ZIPRA and the Politics of Disunity; E.Yorke South African Exile Armies: Spear of the Nation and Other Weapons in the Anti-Apartheid Movement; J.Higgs Hopeless Gestures: Iraqi Exile Forces since the 1968 Revolution; S.McKnight The Great Lakes: Crucible of Exile Armies?; S.Gordon The Kosovo Liberation Army; M.Bennett Conclusion; M.Bennett & P.Latawski Index

O autorze

KEITH BLACKMORE Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK ALAN BROWN Lecturer in History and Politics, Selby College, North Yorkshire, UK ANTHONY CLAYTON Senior Lecturer, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK between 1965 and 1999 STUART GORDON Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK ROBIN HAVERS Senior Lecturer in War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK JAMES HIGGS Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK CHRISTOPHER MANN Lecturer, University of Surrey, UK SEAN MCKNIGHT Deputy Head of the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK MARTIN A. SMITH Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK EDMUND YORKE Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK