Contributor
Gildea, Robert, editor.
ImprintManchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Imprint2020
Descriptionxxiii, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note:Introduction / Robert Gildea and Ismee Tames -- 'For your freedom and ours!' Transnational experiences in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-9 / Samuël Kruizinga with Christina Diac, Enrico Acciai, Franziska Zaugg, Ginta Ieva Bikse, Olga Manojlovic Pintar and Yaacov Falkov -- The 'Spanish matrix': transnational catalyst of Europe's anti-Nazi resistance / Yaacov Falkov and Mercedes Yusta-Rodrigo with Olga Manojlovic 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 Marsálek and Diego Gaspar Celaya -- Inherently transnational: escape lines / Megan Koreman, Diego Gaspar Celaya and Lennert Savenije -- Transnational perspectives on Jews in the Resistance / Renée 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 Manoilovic Pintar, Srdjan Milosevic and Milovan Pisarri -- Transnational uprisings: Warsaw, Paris, Slovakia / Laurent Douzou, Yaacov Falkov and Vit Smetana -- Afterlives and memories / Robert Gildea and Olga Manojlovic Pintar with Mercedes Yusta Rodrigo, Jorge Marco, Diego Gaspar Celaya, Roderick Bailey, Jason Chandrinos, Cristina Diac, Zdenko Marsálek, Franziska Zaugg, Bojan Aleksov, Yaacov Falkov and Megan Koreman -- Conclusion / Ismee Tames and Robert Gildea.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-342) and index.
Note: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.
