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The International Brigades - Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover)
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The International Brigades - Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover)
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'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best'
Fergal Keane The first major history of the International Brigades:
a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism.
The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight
against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000
volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend
democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini.
Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of
purpose and potential glory, disparate groups of idealistic young
men and women banded together to form a volunteer army of a size
and kind unseen since the Crusades, known as the International
Brigades. These passionate liberal fighters - from across Europe,
China, Africa and the Americas - would join the Republican cause,
fighting for over two years on the bloody battlegrounds of Madrid,
Jarama and Ebro. Were they heroes or fools? Saints or bloodthirsty
adventurers? And what exactly did they achieve? This is a story
rendered vivid in the writings of Orwell and Hemingway, the
paintings of Picasso and the photographs of Taro and Capa. But
here, in this magisterial history, award-winning historian Giles
Tremlett tells - for the first time - the story of the Spanish
Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group of
people. Drawing on the Brigades' extensive archives in Moscow,
Comintern documents and first-hand accounts, Tremlett captures all
the human drama of an historic mission to halt fascist expansion in
Europe. A fascinating history of resistance, The International
Brigades shows just how far ordinary people will go to save
democracy against overwhelming odds in a tale of European
solidarity that resonates just as strongly today.
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