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Freedom, Faction, Fame and Blood
Dr Elizabeth Roberts
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Description for Freedom, Faction, Fame and Blood
Hardcover. Presents a comparison of three sets of British volunteers who left their homes to fight in the Greek War of Independence, the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish War. This book traces the political consequences of the volunteers' participation in these foreign wars in the context of the concept of 'neutrality' in foreign relations. Num Pages: 284 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DNF; 1DSE; 1DVG; HBJD; HBLL; HBLW; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
Under the rubric from Lord Byron, this book offers a unique comparison of three sets of British volunteers who left their homes to fight in the Greek War of Independence, the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish War. From Lord Byron's journey to Greece, to the legendary International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War, to the strange sojourn of a contingent of British misfits during a bitter Finnish winter, Elizabeth Roberts examines the passions, ideals and ideologies that motivated these individuals to take up arms, as well as their experiences of warfare, the rhetorical and discursive cultures they encountered in ... Read more
Under the rubric from Lord Byron, this book offers a unique comparison of three sets of British volunteers who left their homes to fight in the Greek War of Independence, the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish War. From Lord Byron's journey to Greece, to the legendary International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War, to the strange sojourn of a contingent of British misfits during a bitter Finnish winter, Elizabeth Roberts examines the passions, ideals and ideologies that motivated these individuals to take up arms, as well as their experiences of warfare, the rhetorical and discursive cultures they encountered in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
284
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845193188
SKU
V9781845193188
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99-1
About Dr Elizabeth Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Sydney. Her current research is on the history of desertion.
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