Languages and the Military

Chapter 1 Introduction: Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building

Chapter 2 One Army, Many Languages: Foreign Troops and Linguistic Diversity in the Eighteenth-Century French Military

Chapter 3 ‘Amidst Clamour and Confusion’: Civilian and Military Linguists at War in the Franco-Irish Campaigns against Britain (1792–1804)

Chapter 4 Fighting Together: Language Issues in the Military Coordination of First World War Allied Coalition Warfare

Chapter 5 Languages at War: a UK Ministry of Defence Perspective

Chapter 6 The Language Policy of the Italian Army in the Occupied Slovenian Territories, 1915–17

Chapter 7 Mediating for the Third Reich: On Military Translation Cultures in World War II in Northern Finland

Chapter 8 When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995–2007

Chapter 9 A Bilingual Officer Remembers Korea: a Closer Look at Untrained Interpreters in the Korean War

Chapter 10 Victims of War: Refugees’ First Contacts with the British in the Second World War

Chapter 11 Jailtacht: the Irish Language and the Conflict in Northern Ireland

Chapter 12 The AIIC Project to Help Interpreters in Conflict Areas

Chapter 13 Learning the Language of ‘The Other’ in Conflict-Ridden Cyprus: Exploring Barriers and Possibilities

Chapter 14 Resolving Conflict via English: the British Council’s Peacekeeping English Project

Chapter 15 Did Serbo-Croat Die with Yugoslavia? A Different View of Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Chapter 16 Exhibiting the ‘Foreign’ in a National Museum: Imperial War Museum London and Languages at War

Chapter 17 Conclusion: Communication, Identity and Representation Through Languages in War