Fanaticism and Conflict in the Modern Age

Matthew Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Military and International History at the University of Salford. Dr Hughes's recent publications include Allenby and British Strategy in the Middle East (London: Frank Cass, 1999), Does Peace Lead to War? Peace Settlements and Conflict in the Modern Age (Stroud: Sutton, 2002) and Allenby in Palestine: the Middle East Correspondence of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, June 1917-October 1919 (London: Army Records Society 2004). Gaynor Johnson is Senior Lecturer in History at Bolton Institute. Dr Johnson is a diplomatic and international historian of the twentieth century whose recent publications include: The Berlin Embassy of Lord D'Abernon, 1920-1926 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and the editor of Locarno Revisted: European Diplomacy 1920-1929 (London: Frank Cass, 2004), Our Man in Berlin: The Diary of Sir Eric Phipps, 1933-1937 (London: Brasseys, 2004) and The Foreign Office and British Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century (London: Frank Cass, 2004).

1. Fanaticism in the Modern Era 2. Dervishes and Fanaticism: Perception and Impact 3. Fanaticism, Japanese Soldiers and the Pacific War, 1937-45 4. Fanaticism and the Barbarisation of the Pacific War, 1941-45 5. Unprecedented, Merciless and Unrelenting Harshness: Fanaticism and Brutalisation in Wehrmacht Anti-Partisan Warfare in the Soviet Union 6. Indoctrinated Nazi teenaged warriors: the fanaticism of the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend in Normandy, 1944 7. Fanaticism and Guerrilla Warfare in the Late Twentieth Century 8. 'Fanaticism: the Algerian Experience' 9. Fanatics, Mobs and Terrorists: The Dynamics of Orange Parades in Northern Ireland 10. 'Religious and Nationalist Fanaticism: The Case of Hammas