War Veterans and the World after 1945

War Veterans and the World after 1945
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9781351119962
ISBN-13 : 1351119966
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Book Synopsis War Veterans and the World after 1945 by : Ángel Alcalde

Download or read book War Veterans and the World after 1945 written by Ángel Alcalde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines war veterans’ history after 1945 from a global perspective. In the Cold War era, in most countries of the world there was a sizeable portion of population with direct war experience. This edited volume gathers contributions which show the veterans’ involvement in all the major historical processes shaping the world after World War II. Cold War politics, racial conflict, decolonization, state-building, and the reshaping of war memory were phenomena in which former soldiers and ex-combatants were directly involved. By examining how different veterans’ groups, movements and organizations challenged or sustained the Cold War, strived to prevent or to foster decolonization, and transcended or supported official memories of war, the volume characterizes veterans as largely independent and autonomous actors which interacted with societies and states in the making of our times. Spanning historical cases from the United States to Hong-Kong, from Europe to Southern Africa, from Algeria to Iran, the volume situates veterans within the turbulent international context since World War II.


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