Transnational Soldiers: Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Transnational Military Service since the Eighteenth Century....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Desperate for Soldiers: The Recruitment of German Prisoners of War during the American War of Independence, 1776–83....Pages 15-31
German Auxiliary Troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies....Pages 32-49
The Politics of Foreign Recruitment in Britain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....Pages 50-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
The Military Marketplace in India, 1850–60....Pages 69-86
Recruitment Policies and Recruitment Experiences in the French Foreign Legion....Pages 87-104
‘They Had the Sea in Their Blood’: Caymanian Naval Volunteers in the Second World War....Pages 105-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
From Imperial Soldiers to National Guardians: German and Lithuanian Volunteers after the Great War, 1918–19....Pages 127-144
Transnational Flows of Military Talent: The Contrasting Experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s....Pages 145-159
Of Local Identities and Transnational Conflict: The Katangese Gendarmes and Central-Southern Africa’s Forty-Years War, 1960–99....Pages 160-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
‘Strangers, Mercenaries, Heretics, Scoffers, Polluters’: Volunteering for the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain, 1835....Pages 181-201
British Red Shirts: A History of the Garibaldi Volunteers (1860)....Pages 202-218
Getting There: Enlistment Considerations and the Recruitment Networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War....Pages 219-232
Fighting in Three Uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two....Pages 233-249
Conclusions: Jihadists, Diasporas and Professional Contractors — The Resurgence of Non-state Recruitment since the 1980s....Pages 250-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-263