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  • 1 - Combatants without Borders

  • Morten Heiberg, University of Copenhagen, Enrico Acciai, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Carl-Henrik Bjerström
  • Book:
    Armed Internationalists
    Published online:
    19 September 2025
    Print publication:
    09 October 2025, pp 1-18

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 offers a historical introduction as well as an overview of existing research in the field. It argues that by mapping out the trajectories of former volunteer soldiers, it is possible to see the many ways in which the Spanish Civil War and the broader anti-fascist engagement of the inter-war period could constitute a transformative experience and event; an event that expanded volunteers’ political horizons and gradually opened up possibilities for border-crossing political engagement in the post-war era. Thus, it sets the stage for the case studies constituting the main part of the book, showing that the political and military influence of the volunteers in Spain did not necessarily come to an end in 1938/1939 or even in 1945. In a few yet significant cases, it stretched across the globe far into the Cold War period.

Armed Internationalists
  • Transnational Volunteering in the Twentieth Century
  • Morten Heiberg, Enrico Acciai, Carl-Henrik Bjerström
  • Published online:
    19 September 2025
    Print publication:
    09 October 2025
  • This unique transnational history explores the extraordinary lives of left-wing volunteers who fought in not just one, but multiple conflicts across the globe during the mid-twentieth century. Utilising previously unpublished archival material, Heiberg, Acciai and Bjerström follow these individual soldiers through military conflicts that were, in most cases, geographically centred on individual countries but nonetheless evinced a crucial transnational dimension. From the Spanish Civil war of 1936 to the Nicaraguan Revolution of 1979, the authors marshall these diverse case studies to create a conceptual framework through which to better understand the networks and recruitment patterns of transnational volunteering. They argue that the Spanish Civil War created a model for this transnational left-wing military volunteering and that this experience shaped the global left responses to a range of conflicts throughout the twentieth century.