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Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances - British Medical Units in the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
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Aristocrats, Adventurers and Ambulances - British Medical Units in the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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When a military coup provoked civil war in Spain in July 1936, many
thousands of people around the world rallied to provide
humanitarian aid. Britons were no exception. Collective efforts in
Britain to provide aid for the Spanish Republic were vast in both
scope and effect. Whilst such enterprise has formed the focus of a
few previous studies, some of the most dramatic stories of the
Spanish war have yet to be uncovered. This book seeks to shed light
on the activities of two separate ventures that played important
roles in British medical and humanitarian aid to Spain -- the
Scottish Ambulance Unit and Sir George Young's Ambulance Unit. The
volunteer members of these teams (those who went out to Spain and
those who supported them in Britain) earned the unstinting praise
of the Spanish government for their selfless commitment to the
cause, as well as winning the respect and gratitude of the citizens
whose welfare they strove so selflessly to protect. Recently
discovered documentation reveals previously undisclosed details of
these remarkably altruistic and, indeed, heroic enterprises,
clarifying the reasoning behind their creation and documenting
their endeavours in Spain -- endeavours of key relevance to the
wider history of the conflict. In Spain, the volunteers of the
Scottish Ambulance Unit and the George Young Ambulance Unit offered
a heartening and inspiring antithesis to the suffering they sought
to relieve. They deserve to be remembered for what they embodied
during those days of untold cruelty and destruction -- outstanding
examples of man's humanity to man.
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