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Sassanids. --- Armies --- Army --- Military power --- Armed Forces --- Sasanians --- Sassanians --- History. --- Iran --- History

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This book fundamentally revises our notion of why soldiers of the eighteenth century enlisted, served and fought. In contrast to traditional views of the brutal conditions supposedly prevailing in old-regime armies, Ilya Berkovich reveals that soldiers did not regard military discipline as illegitimate or unnecessarily cruel, nor did they perceive themselves as submissive military automatons. Instead he shows how these men embraced a unique corporate identity based on military professionalism, forceful masculinity and hostility toward civilians. These values fostered the notion of individual and collective soldierly honour which helped to create the bonding effect which contributed toward greater combat cohesion. Utilising research on military psychology and combat theory, and employing the letters, diaries and memoirs of around 250 private soldiers and non-commissioned officers from over a dozen different European armies, Motivation in War transforms our understanding of life of the common soldier in early modern Europe.

Polemology --- History of Europe --- anno 1700-1799 --- Alltag. --- Erfahrung. --- Identität. --- Militarismus. --- Military morale --- Military morale. --- Männlichkeit. --- Sociology, Military --- Sociology, Military. --- Soldat. --- Soldiers --- Soldiers. --- History --- Europa. --- 1700-1799. --- Europe --- Europe. --- History, Military --- Military sociology --- Armed Forces --- Armies --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- Armed Forces personnel --- Members of the Armed Forces --- Military personnel --- Military service members --- Service members --- Servicemen, Military --- Troop morale --- Morale --- Psychology, Military

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How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War, especially the British Indian army in the Burma campaign. Going beyond conventional narratives, Barkawi studies soldiers in transnational context, from recruitment and training to combat and memory. Drawing on history, sociology and anthropology, the book critiques the 'Western way of war' from a postcolonial perspective. Barkawi reconceives soldiers as cosmopolitan, their battles irreducible to the national histories that monopolise them. This book will appeal to those interested in the Second World War, armed forces and the British Empire, and students and scholars of military sociology and history, South Asian studies and international relations.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Sociology, Military --- Military sociology --- Armed Forces --- Armies --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Participation, East Indian. --- History --- Campaigns --- Great Britain. --- British Indian Army

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During the two World Wars that marked the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of non-European combatants fought in the ranks of various European armies. The majority of these soldiers were Muslims from North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent. How are these combatants considered in existing historiography? Over the past few decades, research on war has experienced a wide-reaching renewal, with increased emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of war, and a desire to reconstruct the experience and viewpoint of the combatants themselves. This volume reintroduces the question of religious belonging and practice into the study of Muslim combatants in European armies in the 20th century, focusing on the combatants' viewpoint alongside that of the administrations and military hierarchy.

MUSLIM SOLDIERS--EUROPE--HISTORY --- WORLD WAR, 1939-1945--PARTICIPATION, MUSLIM --- WORLD WAR, 1914-1918--PARTICIPATION, MUSLIM --- EUROPE--ARMED FORCES--HISTORY --- Armies --- Muslim soldiers --- World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Sociology, Military --- Military sociology --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- Army --- Military power --- History --- Participation, Muslim --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Armed Forces --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- History, Modern --- Soldiers --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia