Enemy Encounters in Modern Warfare

Holly ​Furneaux is Professor at Cardiff University, UK.Matilda Greig is a Historian at the National Army Museum in London, UK.

• 1: Introduction.- 2: Encounters with Peninsular War Guerrillas and the Marginalisation of Irregular Warfare.- 3: ‘He said he was an Irishman also’: Irish American Union and Confederate Encounter Stories in the American Civil War.- 4: Encountering the Enemy in Fin-de-siècle Colonial Wars: Racial Difference and the Limits of Fellow Feeling.- 5: Global Sexual Encounters with Racialized ‘Others’ in War, Genocide and Captivity, 1905-1945.- 6: ‘Yoors truly German’: A Micro-history of Poetic Enemy Encounters of the 1917 Retreat.- 7: Dying with the Enemy: Prisoner of War Deaths in First World War Britain.- 8: Racial Encounters in Wartime Post/Colonial Indo-Myanmar Borderlands.- 9: ‘Children Made to Carry Bombs’: Staging the ‘Emergency’ in Malaya (1948-60).- 10: Trusting Your Enemy: American Encounters with the Kit Carson Scouts During the Vietnam War, 1966–1973.- 11: Between ‘Nostalgia’ and ‘Self-Othering’: Self-Orientalism, Strategic Nostalgia and Self-Othering Practises in Islamic State Propaganda Imagery.- 12: Memorializing the Enemy Three Ways: Australia, Japan, the USA.- 13: Afterword.