Transnational Soldiers

Chapter 1 Introduction: Transnational Military Service since the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 2 Desperate for Soldiers: The Recruitment of German Prisoners of War during the American War of Independence, 1776–83

Chapter 3 German Auxiliary Troops in the British and Dutch East India Companies

Chapter 4 The Politics of Foreign Recruitment in Britain during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Chapter 5 The Military Marketplace in India, 1850–60

Chapter 6 Recruitment Policies and Recruitment Experiences in the French Foreign Legion

Chapter 7 ‘They Had the Sea in Their Blood’: Caymanian Naval Volunteers in the Second World War

Chapter 8 From Imperial Soldiers to National Guardians: German and Lithuanian Volunteers after the Great War, 1918–19

Chapter 9 Transnational Flows of Military Talent: The Contrasting Experiences of Burma and Thailand since the 1940s

Chapter 10 Of Local Identities and Transnational Conflict: The Katangese Gendarmes and Central-Southern Africa’s Forty-Years War, 1960–99

Chapter 11 ‘Strangers, Mercenaries, Heretics, Scoffers, Polluters’: Volunteering for the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain, 1835

Chapter 12 British Red Shirts: A History of the Garibaldi Volunteers (1860)

Chapter 13 Getting There: Enlistment Considerations and the Recruitment Networks of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War

Chapter 14 Fighting in Three Uniforms: Soviet POWs in World War Two

Chapter 15 Conclusions: Jihadists, Diasporas and Professional Contractors — The Resurgence of Non-state Recruitment since the 1980s