Ángel Alcalde is currently a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen. He earned his Ph.D. in history and civilization from the European University Institute, Florence. He is a specialist on the social and cultural history of war, transnational history and the history of fascism. He has published numerous works on the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, including two books, Los excombatientes franquistas (2014) and Lazos de Sangre (2010).

Introduction; Part I. Fascism and Veterans after the Great War: 1. The Great War veterans and the origins of fascism, 1914-1919; 2. War veterans and the rise of Italian Fascism, 1920-2; Part II. Fascism and Veterans during the 1920s: 3. Veterans under fascist rule, 1923-5; 4. Veterans and fascism: consolidation and European expansion, 1925-9; Part III. Fascism and Veterans during the 1930s: 5. Transnational fascism and veterans, 1929-35; 6. Veterans between fascism and anti-fascism, war and peace, 1936-40; Conclusion.

A fresh and suggestive interpretation of the relationship between veterans of the Great War and fascism in interwar Europe.