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Combatants of Muslim origin in European armies in the twentieth century : far from jihad /

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 combatan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Branche, Raphaëlle (Editor ), Drieu, Cloé (Editor ), Bougarel, Xavier (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Feeding Muslim troops during the First World War / Emmanuelle Cronier
  • Muslim Askaris in the colonial troops of German East Africa, 1889-1918 / Tanja Bührer
  • Turkic muslims in the Russian Army : from the beginning of the First World War to the Revolution of 1917 / Salavat M. Iskhakov
  • Between "non-Russian nationalities" and Muslim identity : perceptions and self-perceptions of Soviet Central Asian Soldiers in the Red Army, 1941-1945 / Kiril Feferman
  • Islam, a "convenient religion"? the case of the 13th SS Division Handschar / Xavier Bougarel
  • The officer for Muslim military affairs in the First French Army, 1944-1945 : an agent of control or an intermediary? / Claire Miot
  • Haunted by jinns. Dealing with war neuroses among Muslim soldiers during the Second World War / Julie Le Gac
  • "Allah might provide the fuel" : Muslim sailors in British colonial navies, from the Second World War to independence / Daniel Owen Spence.