War veterans and the world after 1945 : cold war politics, decolonization, memory / edited by Angel Alcalde and Xose M. Nunez Seixas.

Includes index.

The Cold War -- The International Federation of Resistance Fighters: Communist antifascism, Germany and Europe / V�aclav Midrkal -- The World Veterans Federation: Cold War politics and globalization / �Angel Alcalde -- Race and decolonization -- South African veterans and the institutionalisation of apartheid in South Africa / Jonathan Fennell -- Enforcing conformity: Race in the American Legion, 1940-1960 / Olivier Burtin -- Fighting for their freedom at home: Native American Vietnam Veterans in the red power movement, 1969-1973 / Matthias Voigt -- Poppies, pensions, passports: The British Legion and transnational civil society action in decolonizing Hong Kong / Daniel Schumacher -- Decolonization and state-building -- Algerian Veterans Associations in the late Colonial Period in Algeria, 1945-1962 / Samuel Andr�e-Bercovici -- Colonial soldiers and postcolonial politics in Guinea, Ivory Coast, and Upper Volta, 1958-1973 / Riina Turtio -- War, mobilization, and development in the Islamic Republic of Iran: From the construction Jihad to the Trench Builders Association, 1979-2013 / Eric Lob -- Veterans, decolonization, and land expropriation in post-independence Zimbabwe, 2000-2008 / Obert Bernard Mlambo -- Inconvenient heroes? War veterans from the Eastern Front in Franco's Spain, 1942-1975 / Xos�e M. N�u�nez Seixas -- Authority and anti-war politics of French Veterans of the Algerian War of decolonisation / Hugh Mcdonnell -- State power, cultural exchange and the "forgotten war": British Veterans of the Korean War, 1953-2013 / Grace Huxford -- Retracing memories of war: South African military veterans as tourists in Angola / Gary Baines.