History of Military Occupation – serie
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Imperfect Occupation
Enduring the South African War
Av John Boje
Inbunden, 2015
524 kr
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The South African War (1899–1902), also called the Boer War and Anglo-Boer War, began as a conventional conflict. It escalated into a savage irregular war fought between the two Boer republics and a British imperial force that adopted a scorched-earth policy and used concentration camps to break …
Mussolini's Army in the French Riviera
Italy's Occupation of France
Inbunden, 2016
524 kr
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In contrast to its brutal seizure of the Balkans, the Italian Army's 1940-1943 relatively mild occupation of the French Riviera and nearby alpine regions bred the myth of the Italian brava gente, or good fellow, an agreeable occupier who abstained from the savage wartime behaviors so common across …
Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontiers
Fort Napier and the British Imperial Garrison
Inbunden, 2016
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Small and isolated in the Colony of Natal, Fort Napier was long treated like a temporary outpost of the expanding British Empire. Yet British troops manned this South African garrison for over seventy years. Tasked with protecting colonists, the fort became even more significant as an influence on, …
British Army of the Rhine
Turning Nazi Enemies Into Cold War Partners
Inbunden, 2016
524 kr
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Between 1945 and 1957, West Germany made a dizzying pivot from Nazi bastion to Britain's Cold War ally against the Soviet Union. Successive London governments, though often faced with bitter public and military opposition, tasked the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) to serve as a protecting force …
Serbia Under the Swastika
A World War II Occupation
Inbunden, 2017
524 kr
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The 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia initially left the German occupiers with a pacified Serbian heartland willing to cooperate in return for relatively mild treatment. Soon, however, the outbreak of resistance shattered Serbia's seeming tranquility, turning the country into a battlefield and an …
