02730cam a2200337 i 4500 19700261 20220324115520.0 170525s2017 mau b 001 0 eng c 2017017573 9780674979567 (alk. paper) MH/DLC eng MH rda DLC pcc UB321..A75 2017 355.2/2362 23 Arielli, Nir, 1975- author. From Byron to bin Laden : a history of foreign war volunteers / Nir Arielli. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017. 295 pages ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-283) and index. Only a nation in arms? "foreigners" in military service before 1815 -- Attractive conflicts: the changing ideological landscape -- A search for meaning: deciphering motivations -- Thoughts of home: a typology of volunteer-state relations -- Controlling the flow: governmental responses, legislation, and support networks -- Winning wars? assessing military significance -- The dark side: troublemakers, soldiers of misfortune, and terrorists -- Links in a chain: memory and myth. What makes people fight and risk their lives for a country other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as the poet Lord Byron, the writer George Orwell, the Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara, and the young Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden all turn to foreign military service? From Byron to bin Laden makes a historian's examines the phenomenon of war volunteers who have travelled abroad to fight on the basis of a personal decision, without being sent by their governments and not strictly for the sake of material gain. Although fighting for very different causes, these volunteers shared a number of commonalities; they tended to superimpose their beliefs and perceptions on the wars they joined, while a personal search for meaning invariably underlined their actions. Through a comprehensive study of the history of foreign volunteering from the wars of the French Revolution to the present, the book opens up a broad range of questions that relate to individual motivations, ideology, gender, state-citizen relations, international law, military significance, radicalization and the memory of war.-- Provided by publisher Foreign enlistment History. Military service, Voluntary History. Soldiers Psychology. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 8699 16199 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2022-02-14 UB321..A75 9141/590/22 2022-02-14 00:00:00 2022-02-14 BK