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Author | : Peter N. Carroll |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804722773 |
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Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
Author | : Peter N. Carroll |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804722766 |
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Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
Author | : Cary Nelson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 535 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1136666311 |
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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.
Author | : William Loren Katz |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2013-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620329018 |
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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.
Author | : Marion Merriman |
Publisher | : University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781948908740 |
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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.
Author | : Edwin Rolfe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter N. Carroll |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2007-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814716814 |
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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.
Author | : Muriel Rukeyser |
Publisher | : The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1558618201 |
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Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.
Author | : Hank Rubin |
Publisher | : SIU Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1999-12-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780809323173 |
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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.
Author | : Richard Lowe |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2005-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807130650 |
Download A Texas Cavalry Officer's Civil War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A volunteer officer with the 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment from 1861 to 1865, James Campbell Bates saw some of the most important and dramatic clashes in the Civil War's western and trans-Mississippi theaters. Bates rode thousands of miles, fighting in the Indian Territory; at Elkhorn Tavern in Arkansas; at Corinth, Holly Springs, and Jackson, Mississippi; at Thompson's Station, Tennessee; and at the crossing of the Etowah River during Sherman's Atlanta campaign. In a detailed diary and dozens of long letters to his family, he recorded his impressions, confirming the image of the Texas cavalrymen as a hard-riding bunch -- long on aggression and short on discipline. Bates's writings, which remain in the possession of his descendants, treat scholars to a documentary treasure trove and all readers to an enthralling, first-person dose of American history.