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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a355.22362 _bARI
100			_aArielli ,Nir
245			_aFROM BYRON TO BIN LADEN : History of Foreign War Volunteers
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260			_aLondon _bHarvard University Press _c2017/01/01
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500			_aSummary: 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
650			_aForeign enlistment -- History.
650			_aMilitary service, Voluntary -- History.
650			_aSoldiers -- Psychology.
650			_aMotivation
650			_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General
650			_aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science
650			_aHISTORY / Military / Other
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