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The Last English Revolutionary - Tom Wintringham, 1898-1949, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised & Updated ed)
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The Last English Revolutionary - Tom Wintringham, 1898-1949, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised & Updated ed)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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"Spain woke me up politically. I rediscovered democracy, the power
that can come from people working together when a popular front is
not just a manoeuvre but a reality." Drawing on his political and
fighting experience in the Spanish Civil War, Tom Wintringham wrote
the best-seller New Ways of War - a do-it-yourself guide to killing
people - but also a highly subversive call for a socialist
revolution. He called for 'a Peoples war' and the phrase stuck.
Recalling the English Civil war he likened the Home Guard he
trained in guerrilla warfare to the New Model Army and later he
helped found Common Wealth, a political party more radical in some
ways than Labour. His finest hour was 1940 when he inspired his
countrymen to resist invasion. ... After gaining exclusive access
to the Wintringham archive, now in the Liddell Hart Centre for
Military Archives, historian Hugh Purcell published a biography of
this uniquely English revolutionary (Sutton Publishing, 2004).
Working with Phyll Smith, librarian in Wintringham's home town of
Grimsby, they have since discovered a wealth of historical firsts,
including: the actual leaflet Wintringham wrote that led the
prosecution case in the infamous treason trial of the Communist
Party leadership in 1925; and additional evidence that in the
summer of 1936 Wintringham was already propagating the idea of an
'international legion' to fight for Republican Spain. Churchill
coined his own expletive as in 'I refuse to be Wintringhamed';
Hemingway wrote his only play, Fifth Column, based on Wintringham
and his lover, a supposed 'Trotskyite spy'; and photographs show
Orwell and Wintringham together in 1940 training for guerrilla
warfare to resist a Nazi invasion - such was the dramatic imprint
on history of this seminal figure, here revealed in an Enlarged,
Revised and Updated edition.
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