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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 Fifty-two 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

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Author

Giles Tremlett

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408854075

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities