War Veterans and the World after 1945

ngel Alcalde obtained his PhD from the European University Institute in 2015. He was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at LMU Munich in 2016-2017. He has also been a visiting scholar at the European Institute at Columbia University (New York), the Leibniz-Institute for European History (Mainz), and the Center for the History of Global Development at Shanghai University. His latest book is War Veterans and Fascism in Interwar Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Xos M. Nez Seixas is Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Santiago de Compostela and at the LMU of Munich (2012-1017). He obtained his PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books on nationalist movements, national and regional identities, history of migration, and the cultural and social history of war in the twentieth century. His latest books are Die spanische Blaue Division an der Ostfront (1941-45) (Aschendorff, 2016) and (ed.) Metaphors of Spain (Berghahn, 2017).

List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction (ngel Alcalde and Xos M. Nez Seixas) Part One: The Cold War 2. The making and unmaking of the international anti-fascist resistance fighter (Vclav midrkal) 3. The World Veterans Federation: Cold War politics and globalization (ngel Alcalde) 4. For Peace and Disarmament: Italian Disabled Ex-Servicemen and dtente (Ugo Pavan Dalla Torre) Part Two: Race and Decolonization 5. South African Veterans and the Institutionalization of Apartheid in South Africa (Jonathan Fennell) 6. Enforcing Conformity: Race in the American Legion, 1940-1960 (Olivier Burtin) 7. "Warriors Again": Native American Vietnam Veterans in the Decolonization Movement, 1969-1973 (Matthias Voigt) 8. Poppies, pensions, passports: the British Legion and transnational civil society action in decolonizing Hong Kong (Daniel Schumacher) Part Three: Decolonization and Development 9. Colonial soldiers and postcolonial politics in Guinea, Cte dIvoire and Upper Volta, 1958-1973 (Riina Turtio) 10. Algerian veterans associations in the late colonial period in Algeria (1945-1962) (Samuel Andr-Berkovici) 11. Development, Mobilization, and War in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Case of the Trench Builders Association (1979-2013) (Eric Lob) 12. Veterans and land expropriation in Post-Independence Zimbabwe (Obert Bernard Mlambo) Part Four: Memory 13. Inconvenient heroes? War veterans from the Eastern front in Francos Spain (1942-1975) (Xos M. Nez Seixas) 14. Imagination and Authority in the Testimonies of French Veterans of the Algerian War of Decolonization (1954-1962) (Hugh McDonnell) 15. State Power, Cultural Exchange and the 'Forgotten War': British Veterans of the Korean War, 1953-2011 (Grace Huxford) 16. Retracing Memories of War: South African Military Veterans as Tourists in Angola (Gary Fred Baines). Index.