Author: Peter N. CarrollPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804722773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Author: Peter N. CarrollPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804722773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Author: Peter N. CarrollPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804722766
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
Madrid 1937
Author: Cary NelsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136666311
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
Few topics in 20th century history generate as much interest as the Spanish Civil War. These letter from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade take us back to a time when 2800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist calvary on the battlefields of Spain. Here are their combat experiences, the love letters they wrote under fire, friendships formed among themselves and with their Spanish comrades, and reports of Madrid and Barcelona undergoing history's first saturation bombing of civilian targets. It was the eve of World War II, and these men and women saw first-hand the danger facing the world. Iadrid 1937 captures for the first time the thoughts, words and dreams of those who fought. More than a collection of separate letters, Madrid 1937 gathers letters from many hands to tell a group story. Richly illustrated with over 50 color and black and white plates, this chronicle enables the reader to travel with the volunteers through France and Spain; visit the beseiged city of Madrid and walk the streets of Barcelona under fascist bombardment; experience the chaos of battle and the excitement of celebrations behind the lines; stand beside nurses and doctors as they struggle to save the lives of the wounded; and encounter famous writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Langston Hughes. Madrid 1937 tells a story of epic proportion, the struggle of a volunteer army who chose to risk their lives in the struggle against Fascism.
The Lincoln Brigade
Author: William Loren KatzPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620329018
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Few Lincolns had any military training. More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle. Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites. The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander. William Loren Katz and the late Marc Crawford twice traveled with the Brigade to Spain in the 1980s, interviewed surviving Lincolns on old battlefields, and obtained never-before-published documents and photographs for this book.
American Commander in Spain
Author: Marion MerrimanPublisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 9781948908740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Spanish Civil War (1936—1939) was a confrontation between supporters of Spain's democratically elected Republic—including peasants, communists, union workers, and anarchists—and an alliance of nationalist Army rebels and upper-class forces, including the Catholic Church and landlords, led by General Francisco Franco. In the political climate of the time, this civil war became the focus of foreign interests advocating conflicting ideas of democracy and fascism. Spain became a training ground where Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy tested military techniques intended for use in a yet to be declared wider world war. Although most Western nations embraced a neutrality pact, individual volunteers from around the world, including the United States, made their way to Spain to support the Republican cause. Among the Americans was Robert Hale Merriman, a scholar who had been studying international economics in Europe. He and his wife, Marion, joined volunteers from fifty-four countries in International Brigades. Merriman became the first commander of the Americans; Abraham Lincoln Battalion and a leader among the International Brigades. Now available in a new paperback edition, American Commander in Spain is based on Merriman and Marion's diaries and personal correspondence, Marion's own service at his side in Spain, as well as Warren Lerude's extensive research and interviews with people who knew Merriman and Marion, government records, and contemporary news reports. This critically acclaimed work is both the biography of a remarkable man who combined his idealism with life-risking action to fight fascism threatening Europe and Marion's vivid first-hand account of life in Spain during the civil war that became a prologue to the Second World War.
“The” Lincoln Battalion
Author: Edwin RolfeFacing Fascism
Author: Peter N. CarrollPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814716814
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War provides a window into New York during the 1930s - a city in ferment, writing from the economic pains inflicted by the Depression, but redolent with idealism born from the hope of a better tomorrow - in an effort to better understand the era's broad-based activism. This collection of original essays examines the political discourse and conflict that gripped New York during the war and provides portraits of ordinary men and women who, following their own beliefs and consciences, did extraordinary things.
Savage Coast
Author: Muriel RukeyserPublisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558618201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.
Letters from the Spanish Civil War
Author: Carl GeiserPublisher:
ISBN: 9781606351741
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This title provides a unique perspective into the motivations that led a young man from the American heartland to defy US neutrality and travel to Spain to fight in defence of democracy against Nazi- and Fascist-backed aggression.
Spain's Cause Was Mine
Author: Hank RubinPublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809323173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In 1937, Hank Rubin, a 20-year-old pre-med student volunteered for service in the International Brigades fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. In this memoir, Rubin recalls the heroics and suffereing he witnessed as well as the disappointing treatment he received upon his return.