Fighters Across Frontiers

Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48

Fighters Across Frontiers
Robert Gildea, Ismee Tames
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 376pg
5 Nov 2020 UK
9781526151247
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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.
' This book shows the value of transnational histories and collaborative scholarship. With shattering clarity, it reveals trends, themes and experiences that had previously been obscured. Powerfully argued and meticulously researched, it changes the way we think about resistances in the past, while also providing new ways to think about the present. ' Joanna Bourke, Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London' This remarkable book blazes a trail in our understanding of resistance in and around the Second World War. By altering our perspective and revealing previously unseen connections, it transforms a familiar object into something striking and novel. No one will be able to look at the history of resistance in the same way after reading this. ' Matthew Cobb, author of The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis ' Transcends traditional approaches to anti-fascist resistance in mid-twentieth-century Europe by highlighting its international aspects: exploring instances of resisters crossing borders and of foreigners participating in "national" resistance movements. ' Bob Moore, Professor Emeritus of Twentieth-Century European History, University of Sheffield -- .
Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at Worcester College at the University of OxfordIsmee Tames is Arq Professor History of Resistance in Times of War and Persecution at Utrecht University, and Programme Leader for War and Society at the NIOD Insitute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam
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ISBN-13: 9781526151247
Published: 5 Nov 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 376

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