Robert Gildea & Ismee Tames 
Fighters across frontiers [EPUB ebook] 
Transnational resistance in Europe, 1936–48

This landmark book, the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters across Europe resisted ‘transnationally’, travelling to join networks far from their homes. These ‘foreigners’ were often communists and Jews who were already being persecuted and on the move. Others were expatriate business people, escaped POWs, forced labourers or deserters. Their experiences would prove personally transformative and greatly affected the course of the conflict. From the International Brigades in Spain to the onset of the Cold War and the foundation of the state of Israel, they played a significant part in a period of upheaval and change during the long Second World War.

Table des matières

Introduction – Robert Gildea and Ismee Tames
1 ‘For your freedom and ours!’ Transnational experiences in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–9 – Samuël Kruizinga with Christina Diac, Enrico Acciai, Franziska Zaugg, Ginta Ieva Bikše, Olga Manojlovic Pintar and Yaacov Falkov
2 The ‘Spanish matrix’: transnational catalyst of Europe’s anti-Nazi resistance – Yaacov Falkov and Mercedes Yusta-Rodrigo with Olga Manojlovic Pintar, Diego Gaspar Celaya, Cristina Diac and Jason Chandrinos
3 Camps as crucibles of transnational resistance – Robert Gildea with Jorge Marco, Milovan Pisarri, Enrico Acciai, Bojan Aleksov, Yaacov Falkov, Diego Gaspar Celaya and Cristina Diac
4 From regular armies to irregular resistance (and back) – Zdenko Maršálek and Diego Gaspar Celaya
5 Inherently transnational: escape lines – Megan Koreman, Diego Gaspar Celaya and Lennert Savenije
6 Transnational perspectives on Jews in the Resistance – Renée Poznanski, Bojan Aleksov and Robert Gildea
7 SOE and transnational Resistance – Roderick Bailey
8 Transnational guerrillas in the ‘shatter zones’ of the Balkans and Eastern Front – Franziska Zaugg and Yaacov Falkov with Enrico Acciai, Jason Chandrinos, Olga Manoilovic Pintar, Srdjan Miloševic and Milovan Pisarri
9 Transnational uprisings: Warsaw, Paris, Slovakia – Laurent Douzou, Yaacov Falkov and Vít Smetana
10 Afterlives and memories – Robert Gildea and Olga Manojlovic Pintar with Mercedes Yusta, Jorge Marco, Diego Gaspar, Roderick Bailey, Jason Chandrinos, Cristina Diac, Zdenko Maršálek, Franziska Zaugg, Bojan Aleksov, Yaacov Falkov and Megan Koreman
Conclusion – Ismee Tames and Robert Gildea
Index

A propos de l’auteur

Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at Worcester College at the University of Oxford

Ismee Tames is Arq Professor History of Resistance in Times of War and Persecution at Utrecht University, and Programme Leader for War and Society at the NIOD Insitute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam