Europe Without Soldiers?
Author: Tibor Szvircsev Tresch
Publisher: Queen's Policy Studies Series
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781553392460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn informative consideration of the future of Europe's armed forces.
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Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
Author: James J. Sheehan
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780547086330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eminent historian offers a sweeping look at Europes tumultuous 20th century, showing how the rejection of violence after World War II transformed a continent.
Importing the European Army
Author: David B. Ralston
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-06
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780226703190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a study that extends well beyond military history, David B. Ralston documents the ways in which five different countries—Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, China, and Japan—refashioned their armed forces along European lines during the three centuries after 1600. The appropriation of Western military institutions in countries outside of Europe was, Ralston argues, the major force driving these countries to adopt European administrative, economic, and cultural modes. Following the same format in his discussion of each country, Ralston makes this central theme in world history easily accessible to students while offering scholars a sophisticated understanding of the exact nature of the changes brought about by Europeanizing military reforms. David B. Ralston, associate professor of history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the author of The Army of the Republic.
Colonial Soldiers in Europe, 1914-1945
Author: Eric Storm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-22
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1317330986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the first half of the twentieth century, European countries witnessed the arrival of hundreds of thousands of colonial soldiers fighting in European territory (First and Second World War and Spanish Civil War) and coming into contact with European society and culture. For many Europeans, these were the first instances in which they met Asians or Africans, and the presence of Indian, Indo-Chinese, Moluccan, Senegalese, Moroccan or Algerian soldiers in Europe did not go unnoticed. This book explores this experience as it relates to the returning soldiers - who often had difficulties re-adapting to their subordinate status at home - and on European authorities who for the first time had to accommodate large numbers of foreigners in their own territories, which in some ways would help shape later immigration policies.
European Military Culture and Security Governance
Author: Tamir Libel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-17
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1317908295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers the first systematic, comparative analysis of military education and training in Europe within the context of the post-Cold War security environment. Based on an analysis of military education institutions in the UK, Germany, Finland, Romania and the Baltic States, this book demonstrates that the convergence of European military cultures since the end of the Cold War is linked to changes in military education. The process of convergence originates, at least in part, from the full or partial adoption of a new concept by post-commissioning professional military education institutions: the National Defence University. Officers are now educated alongside civilians and public servants, wherein they enjoy a socialization experience that is markedly different from that of previous generations of European officers, and is increasingly similar across national borders. In addition, this book argues that with the control over the curricula and graduation criteria increasingly set by civilian higher education authorities, the European armed forces, while continuing to exist, and hold significant (although declining) capabilities, stand to lose their status as a profession in the traditional sense. This book will be of much interest to students of military, European security policy, European politics, and IR in general.
Motivation in War
Author: Ilya Berkovich
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-02
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1107167736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the motivation of ordinary soldiers to enlist, serve and fight in the armies of eighteenth-century Europe.
Monty's Men
Author: John Buckley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 0300160356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorian John Buckley offers a radical reappraisal of Great Britain’s fighting forces during World War Two, challenging the common belief that the British Army was no match for the forces of Hitler’s Germany. Following Britain’s military commanders and troops across the battlefields of Europe, from D-Day to VE-Day, from the Normandy beaches to Arnhem and the Rhine, and, ultimately, to the Baltic, Buckley’s provocative history demonstrates that the British Army was more than a match for the vaunted Nazi war machine.div /DIVdivThis fascinating revisionist study of the campaign to liberate Northern Europe in the war’s final years features a large cast of colorful unknowns and grand historical personages alike, including Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery and the prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill. By integrating detailed military history with personal accounts, it evokes the vivid reality of men at war while putting long-held misconceptions finally to rest./DIV
Sheer Misery
Author: Mary Louise Roberts
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-04-20
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 022675314X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe senses -- The dirty body -- The foot -- The wound -- The corpse.
Toward a European Army
Author: Trevor C. Salmon
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781588262363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive analysis of the European defence project: its origins, purpose, and goals.
Europe's New Defense Ambitions
Author: Peter van Ham
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2001-04
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0756708788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the EU's Helsinki summit in 1999, European leaders took a decisive step toward the development of a new Common European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) aimed at giving the EU a stronger role in international affairs backed by a credible military force. This report analyzes the processes leading to the ESDP by examining why and how this new European consensus came about. It touches upon the controversies and challenges that still lie ahead. What are the national interests and driving forces behind it, and what steps need to be taken to realize Europe's ambitions to achieve a workable European crisis mgmt. capability?
