Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction: Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace-Building; H.Footitt One Army, Many Languages: Foreign Troops and Linguistic Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century French Military; C.Tozzi 'Amidst Clamour and Confusion': Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns Against Britain (1792-1804); S.Kleinman Fighting Together: Language Issues in the Military Coordination of First World War Allied Coalition Warfare; F.Heimburger Languages at War: a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective; J.Lewis The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915-17; P.Svoljsak Mediating for the Third Reich: On Military Translation Cultures in World War II in Northern Finland; P.Kujamäki When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and Their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995-2007; C.Baker A Bilingual Officer Remembers Korea: a Closer Look at Untrained Interpreters in the Korean War; M.M.F.Sánchez Victims of War: Refugees' First Contacts with the British in the Second World War; S.Tobia Jailtacht: the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland; D.M.G.Chríost The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas; L.Fitchett Learning the Language of 'The Other' in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities; C.Charalambous Resolving Conflict via English: the British Council's Peacekeeping English Project; P.Hare & N.Fletcher Did Serbo-Croat Die with Yugoslavia?: a Different View of Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina; L.Askew Exhibiting the 'Foreign' in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War; J.Taylor Conclusion: Communication, Identity and Representation Through Languages in War; M.Kelly Index