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Holger Afflerbach
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"Readership Scholars and students of international relations, especially those interested in military history, and strategic studies Short Description The history of surrender is one of the most neglected in the history of war, and yet it is vital to understanding not only how wars end but also how they are contained. This is a book with a chronological sweep that runs from the Stone Age to the present day, written by a team of truly distinguished scholars"--

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POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, History, War, Military Capitulations, Capitulations, military, War, history, Capitulations, military--history, War--history, Political science / international relations / general, Jz6388 .a44 2012, 355.02, Pol011000

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Table of Contents

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Introduction:
Part I: No Quarter? The Beginnings of Surrender
1. No Surrender in Prehistoric Warfare Chapter, Laurence Keeley
2. Surrender in Ancient Greece, Paul Cartledge
3. Surrender in Ancient Rome, Loretana de Libero
Part II: Learning to Surrender? The Middle Ages
Introduction: Surrender in Medieval Times, Hans Henning Kortum
4. Surrender in Medieval Europe - An Indirect Approach, John Gillingham
5. Surrender and Capitulation in the Middle East in the Age of the Crusades, John France
6. Basil II the Bulgar-slayer and the blinding of 15,000 Bulgarians in 1014: mutilation and prisoners-of -war in the Middle Ages, Catherine Holmes
Part III: The Developments of Rules and Regulations: Surrender in Early Modern Times
Introduction: Honourable Surrender in Early Modern European History, John A. Lynn
III.a. Surrender in Intercultural Wars
7. How Fighting ended in the Aztec Empire and its Surrender to the Europeans, Ross Hassig
8. Different Concepts of Surrender: William Campbell
Surrender in the Northeastern Borderlands of Native America
III.b.: Surrender in Early Modern Europe
9. Surrender in the Thirty-Years War, Lothar Hobelt
10. Surrender and the Laws of War in Western Europe, c. 1650-1783, John Childs
11. Rituals of Surrender in the American, Daniel Krebs
War of Independence
Part IV: A Question of Honour: Surrender in Sea Warfare
12. Surrender in Sea Warfare from Elizabethan to our own Times, Holger Afflerbach
Part V: The Times of International Law: Surrender in Modern Wars
Introduction: Hew Strachan: Surrender in Modern Warfare since the
French Revolution
V.a. The 19th Century
13. "Civilized, rational behaviour"? The Concept of Surrender in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815, Michael Broers
14. Robert E. Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia and Confederate Surrender, Joseph Glatthaar
15. Surrender in 19th Century Colonial Wars, Edward Spiers
V.b. Surrender in World War I.
16. Methods of Individual Surrender in the Great War, Alan Kramer
17. By the book? Commanders surrendering in World War I, Dennis Showalter
18. The breaking point: Surrender 1918, Jay Winter
Part VI: Unconditional Surrender? World War II
Introduction: Gerhard Weinberg: Surrender in World War II
VI a. 'Conventional' surrenders
19. French Surrender in 1940: Soldiers, Commanders, Civilians, Martin Alexander
20. The Issue of Surrender in the Malayan Campaign, 1941-1942, Mark Connelly
21. Neither Defeat nor Surrender: Italy's Change of Alliances in 1943, John Gooch
VI b. Germany and Japan in World War II
22. German Soldiers and Surrender, 1945, John Zimmermann
23. Kamikaze Warfare in Imperial Japan's Existential Crisis, 1944-1945, Mordecai George Sheftall
24. The German surrender 1945, Richard Bessel
Part VII: Our times: Asymmetric Wars - Endless Wars and No Surrender?
25. Kosovo, the Serbian Surrender and the Western Dilemma: achieving victories with low casualties, Michael Codner
26. How Fighting Ends - Asymmetric Wars, Terrorism, and Suicide Bombing, Audrey Kurth Cronin
Conclusion
Index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355.02
Library of Congress
JZ6388 .A44 2012, U21.2, JZ6388 .H69 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
520

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25214479M
ISBN 13
9780199693627
LCCN
2012002672
OCLC/WorldCat
769545002

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