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Unlikely Warriors: The Extraordinary Story of the Britons Who Fought for Spain de Richard Baxell

Unlikely Warriors: The Extraordinary Story of the Britons Who Fought for Spain

Autor Richard Baxell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2014
'The definitive work on the British volunteers ... a superbly written and deeply moving vision of the inspiring but doomed efforts of men and women to halt Europe's descent into war.' Paul Preston, author of The Spanish Holocaust
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ISBN-13: 9781781312339
ISBN-10: 1781312338
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 127 x 196 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Aurum Press

Notă biografică

RICHARD BAXELL is an author, researcher and historian who has lectured and written widely on the British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. His critically acclaimed British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939 developed from his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics under Professor Paul Preston. With fellow historian Angela Jackson and journalist and International Brigade Memorial Trust Secretary, Jim Jump, Richard wrote and designed the popular travelling exhibition Antifascistas on the British and Irish volunteers as well as the accompanying book of the same name. He is currently a research associate at the London School of Economics and a trustee of the International Brigade Memorial Trust. More information can be found at: www.richardbaxell.info

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‘The definitive work on the British volunteers … a superbly written and deeply moving vision of the inspiring but doomed efforts of men and women to halt Europe’s descent into war.’ Paul Preston, author of The Spanish Holocaust

On 17 July 1936 a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain. In the face of the rebels’ bloody onward march, the Spanish Republic turned to the leaders of Britain and France for assistance – but its pleas fell on deaf ears.

Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent – and beyond – flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades.

As many as 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working-class backgrounds, leaving behind their families and livelihoods to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. More than 500 of them never returned home.

In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco.

From their struggle against the Blackshirts in the ‘hungry thirties’, to the fall of the Nazis’ Third Reich in 1945, Unlikely Warriors follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice, and offers a startling new perspective on the Spanish Civil War.