Two years after his homecoming, nationalist army officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser seized power, overthrowing the British-backed monarchy.

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Like many peasants, young Ji decided to escape from the hardship of the fields by joining the Nationalist army.

ECONOMIST: Ji Pengfei

Lau was one of the last holdouts at Rennie's Mill, a village in Hong Kong's Kowloon peninsula that was home to hundreds of ex-soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army and their families.

CNN: The Lowering of the Flag

It was his embrace of such bitterly controversial views on history that turned him from being a successful general in the Yugoslav army to a nationalist dissident.

ECONOMIST: Franjo Tudjman, awkward Balkan survivor

By contrast, Mr. Sharif who spent 14 months in detention and seven years in exile won't be such a pushover for the army because of his nationalist credentials, his experience dealing with the military and a political stature he has built over decades, say diplomats and analysts.

WSJ: Eyes on Economy, Ex-PM Leads Pakistan's Race

Mr Lebed, a law-and-order nationalist with a strong claim on the army vote, is taking quite a risk with his career.

ECONOMIST: Russia

The arrest in Kosovo, earlier this month, of six alleged members of the so-called Ilirida Republican Army, a new Albanian-nationalist group, produced sighs of relief in Skopje, where Slav-Macedonians often accuse the West of coddling armed Albanians.

ECONOMIST: Cracking down on crime in Kosovo

Mr Aweys, a fervent nationalist, was decorated for bravery as a Somali army colonel in the 1977 war.

ECONOMIST: Somalia

Army helicopters hovered overhead as the march passed barriers of razor wire at the edge of a nationalist area.

BBC: Drumcree's hill of 'uneasy calm'