The International Brigades
Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Format: Book
Description: xii, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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.
Contents:
Introduction -- Welcome to the games: Barcelona, 19 July 1936 -- The workers and the army: Madrid, 20 July 1936 -- Amateur warriors: Tardienta, August-September 1936 -- The fascists are here: Seville, August 1936 -- A professional view: Huesca, mid-September 1936 -- Creating the brigades: Madrid, Moscow, Albacete, October 1936 -- The tower of Babel: Albacete, October 1936 -- the first brigade: Gran Vía, Madrid, 8 November 1936 -- No Pasarán: Parque del Oeste, Madrid, 9 November 1936 -- Death in the park: Casa de Campo, November 1936 -- Bulletproof books: University City, Madrid, November 1936 -- A new brigade: Albacete, Chinchón, Cerro de los Angels, 9 November 1936 -- Save Madrid: University City, November 1936 -- Hail, the Saviour of Madrid!: Cinema Monumental, Madrid, November-December 1936 -- The battle of the mist: Boadilla, 14-23 December 1936 -- Stalin was still a saint: Albacete, November-December 1936 -- Sans Nom and the Poles: Southern front, Andalusia, Christmas Eve, 1936 -- Men in rubber coats: Lopera, 25 December 1936 -- Justice and a different kind of army: Lopera, January 1937 -- Mothers and Jews: Algora, 1 January 1937 -- The final battle for Madrid: Las Rozas, Aravaca, Villanueva, January 1937 -- Bethune, blood and bombing: The coast between Málaga and Almería, February 1937 -- A valley called Jarama: Pindoque railway bridge, 11 February 1937 -- The British: San Martín road, Jarama valley, 12 February 1937 -- Disobeying orders: Jarama valley, 13 February 1937 -- The Yanks are coming!: Jarama valley, 16 February 1937 -- Mussolini at Guadalajara: Brihuega, Torija, Trijueque, 9 March 1937 -- The Italian Civil War: Brihuega, 10 March 1937 -- The battle of the loudspeakers: Palace of Ibarra, Brihuega, 13 March 1937 -- Blue nose and the deserters: Valencia, 20 April 1937 -- Hemingway: Men and women in war: Brihuega, Madrid, March-April 1937 -- Damage in Catalonia: Barcelona, late April 1937 -- Attack!: Guernica and Valsaín, April-June 1937 -- The death of Lukács: Huesca, early June 1937 -- Brunete: Denmark, early summer 1937 -- The Romanillos and Mosquito Ridges: Guadarrama river, 8 July 1937 -- Resist: Brunete plain, 12 July 1937 -- The coup that lasted a year: Brunete plain, 18-26 July 1937 -- The price of war: Brunete plain, 25 July 1937 -- Vengeance: Quinto, Aragon, 24 August 1937 -- Conquest: Belchite, 31 August 1937 -- The North Pole: Teruel, December 1937 -- Blitzkrieg: Belchite, 9 March 1938 -- Boy soldiers: Guadalope river, 19 March 1938 -- Defeat, despair, hope: Móra la Nova, 4 April 1938 -- Prisoners: The monastery at San Pedro de Cardeña, autumn 1938 -- The last charge: Ebro river, 24 July 1938 -- Resist, fortify and be vigilant: La Cova Hospital, La Bisbal de Falset, July-September 1938 -- Dreams of home: Sierra de Pàndols, early August 1938 -- The last fight: Barcelona, 16 September 1938 -- Farewell to arms: Northern Catalonia, 24 September 1938-8 February 1939 -- 'Premature anti-fascists': Paris, 21 August 1941.
Subjects:
Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional.
Fascism -- Spain -- History.
Anti-fascist movements -- Spain -- History.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, Foreign.
Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional.
Fascism -- Spain -- History.
Anti-fascist movements -- Spain -- History.
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, Foreign.
ISBN:
9781408853986
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Includes bibliographical references ([637]-667) and index.