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.
Holger Afflerbach, from 2002-2006, was DAAD Professor of History at Emory University. Afflerbach specializes in late nineteenth and twentieth Century German history; international relations; military history, particularly World War I and World War II; and Austrian and Italian history. Among his publications are the biography of the Prussian War Minister and Chief of General Staff Erich von Falkenhayn (Munich 1994, second edition 1996); his study of the Triple Alliance, entitled Der Dreibund. Europäische Grossmacht und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Vienna 2002); and a popular book on the history of the Atlantic: Das entfesselte Meer (Munich, 2002). He also edited an edition of sources from the German Headquarters in World War I under the title Kaiser Wilhelm II: als Oberster Kriegsherr während des Ersten Weltkrieges - Quellen aus der militärischen Umgebung des Kaisers (Munich, 2005). He is is Professor of Central European History at the University of Leeds. Hew Strachan's research interests are military history from the eighteenth century to date, including contemporary strategic studies, but with particular interest in the First World War and in the history of the British Army. Among his numerous publications are: European Armies and the Conduct of War (London, 1983); Wellington's Legacy: The Reform of the British Army 1830-54 (Manchester, 1984); From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology and the British Army (Cambridge, 1985) ; The Politics of the British Army (Oxford, 1997); (ed.) The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Oxford, 1998)
Show moreThe 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.
Holger Afflerbach, from 2002-2006, was DAAD Professor of History at Emory University. Afflerbach specializes in late nineteenth and twentieth Century German history; international relations; military history, particularly World War I and World War II; and Austrian and Italian history. Among his publications are the biography of the Prussian War Minister and Chief of General Staff Erich von Falkenhayn (Munich 1994, second edition 1996); his study of the Triple Alliance, entitled Der Dreibund. Europäische Grossmacht und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Vienna 2002); and a popular book on the history of the Atlantic: Das entfesselte Meer (Munich, 2002). He also edited an edition of sources from the German Headquarters in World War I under the title Kaiser Wilhelm II: als Oberster Kriegsherr während des Ersten Weltkrieges - Quellen aus der militärischen Umgebung des Kaisers (Munich, 2005). He is is Professor of Central European History at the University of Leeds. Hew Strachan's research interests are military history from the eighteenth century to date, including contemporary strategic studies, but with particular interest in the First World War and in the history of the British Army. Among his numerous publications are: European Armies and the Conduct of War (London, 1983); Wellington's Legacy: The Reform of the British Army 1830-54 (Manchester, 1984); From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology and the British Army (Cambridge, 1985) ; The Politics of the British Army (Oxford, 1997); (ed.) The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War (Oxford, 1998)
Show moreIntroduction:
Part I: No Quarter? The Beginnings of Surrender
1: Laurence Keeley: No Surrender in Prehistoric Warfare Chapter
2: Paul Cartledge: Surrender in Ancient Greece
3: Loretana de Libero: Surrender in Ancient Rome
Part II: Learning to Surrender? The Middle Ages
Hans Henning Kortüm: Introduction: Surrender in Medieval Times
4: John Gillingham: Surrender in Medieval Europe - An Indirect
Approach
5: John France: Surrender and Capitulation in the Middle East in
the Age of the Crusades
6: Catherine Holmes: Basil II the Bulgar-slayer and the blinding of
15,000 Bulgarians in 1014: mutilation and prisoners-of -war in the
Middle Ages
Part III: The Developments of Rules and Regulations: Surrender in
Early Modern Times
John A. Lynn: Introduction: Honourable Surrender in Early Modern
European History
III.a. Surrender in Intercultural Wars
7: Ross Hassig: How Fighting ended in the Aztec Empire and its
Surrender to the Europeans
8: William Campbell: Different Concepts of Surrender:
Surrender in the Northeastern Borderlands of Native America
III.b.: Surrender in Early Modern Europe
9: Lothar Höbelt: Surrender in the Thirty-Years War
10: John Childs: Surrender and the Laws of War in Western Europe,
c. 1650-1783
11: Daniel Krebs: Rituals of Surrender in the American
War of Independence
Part IV: A Question of Honour: Surrender in Sea Warfare
12: Holger Afflerbach: Surrender in Sea Warfare from Elizabethan to
our own Times
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: Michael Broers: "Civilized, rational behaviour"? The Concept of
Surrender in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815
14: Joseph Glatthaar: Robert E. Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia
and Confederate Surrender
15: Edward Spiers: Surrender in 19th Century Colonial Wars
V.b. Surrender in World War I.
16: Alan Kramer: Methods of Individual Surrender in the Great
War
17: Dennis Showalter: By the book? Commanders surrendering in World
War I
18: Jay Winter: The breaking point: Surrender 1918
Part VI: Unconditional Surrender? World War II
Introduction: Gerhard Weinberg: Surrender in World War II
VI a. 'Conventional' surrenders
19: Martin Alexander: French Surrender in 1940: Soldiers,
Commanders, Civilians
20: Mark Connelly: The Issue of Surrender in the Malayan Campaign,
1941-1942
21: John Gooch: Neither Defeat nor Surrender: Italy's Change of
Alliances in 1943
VI b. Germany and Japan in World War II
22: John Zimmermann: German Soldiers and Surrender, 1945
23: Mordecai George Sheftall: Kamikaze Warfare in Imperial Japan's
Existential Crisis, 1944-1945
24: Richard Bessel: The German surrender 1945
Part VII: Our times: Asymmetric Wars - Endless Wars and No
Surrender?
25: Michael Codner: Kosovo, the Serbian Surrender and the Western
Dilemma: achieving victories with low casualties
26: Audrey Kurth Cronin: How Fighting Ends - Asymmetric Wars,
Terrorism, and Suicide Bombing
Conclusion
Index
Holger Afflerbach, from 2002-2006, was DAAD Professor of History at
Emory University. Afflerbach specializes in late nineteenth and
twentieth Century German history; international relations; military
history, particularly World War I and World War II; and Austrian
and Italian history. Among his publications are the biography of
the Prussian War Minister and Chief of General Staff Erich von
Falkenhayn (Munich 1994, second edition 1996); his study of the
Triple
Alliance, entitled Der Dreibund. Europäische Grossmacht und
Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Vienna 2002); and a
popular book on the history of the Atlantic: Das entfesselte Meer
(Munich, 2002). He
also edited an edition of sources from the German Headquarters in
World War I under the title Kaiser Wilhelm II: als Oberster
Kriegsherr während des Ersten Weltkrieges - Quellen aus der
militärischen Umgebung des Kaisers (Munich, 2005). He is is
Professor of Central European History at the University of Leeds.
Hew Strachan's research interests are military history from the
eighteenth century to date, including contemporary strategic
studies, but with particular interest in
the First World War and in the history of the British Army. Among
his numerous publications are: European Armies and the Conduct of
War (London, 1983); Wellington's Legacy: The Reform of the British
Army 1830-54
(Manchester, 1984); From Waterloo to Balaclava: Tactics, Technology
and the British Army (Cambridge, 1985) ; The Politics of the
British Army (Oxford, 1997); (ed.) The Oxford Illustrated History
of the First World War (Oxford, 1998)
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