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Author : Peter N. Carroll
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0804722773
Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
Author : Edwin Rolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1399012966
Author : Cary Nelson,Jefferson Hendricks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136666315
Few topics in 20th century history generate as much interest as the Spanish Civil War. These letter from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade take us back to a time when 2800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist calvary on the battlefields of Spain. Here are their combat experiences, the love letters they wrote under fire, friendships formed among themselves and with their Spanish comrades, and reports of Madrid and Barcelona undergoing history's first saturation bombing of civilian targets. It was the eve of World War II, and these men and women saw first-hand the danger facing the world. Iadrid 1937 captures for the first time the thoughts, words and dreams of those who fought. More than a collection of separate letters, Madrid 1937 gathers letters from many hands to tell a group story. Richly illustrated with over 50 color and black and white plates, this chronicle enables the reader to travel with the volunteers through France and Spain; visit the beseiged city of Madrid and walk the streets of Barcelona under fascist bombardment; experience the chaos of battle and the excitement of celebrations behind the lines; stand beside nurses and doctors as they struggle to save the lives of the wounded; and encounter famous writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Langston Hughes. Madrid 1937 tells a story of epic proportion, the struggle of a volunteer army who chose to risk their lives in the struggle against Fascism.
Author : William Loren Katz,Marc Crawford
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620329016
THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Few Lincolns had any military training. More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle. Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites. The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander. William Loren Katz and the late Marc Crawford twice traveled with the Brigade to Spain in the 1980s, interviewed surviving Lincolns on old battlefields, and obtained never-before-published documents and photographs for this book.
Author : Marion Merriman,Warren Lerude
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1948908743
The Spanish Civil War (1936—1939) was a confrontation between supporters of Spain's democratically elected Republic—including peasants, communists, union workers, and anarchists—and an alliance of nationalist Army rebels and upper-class forces, including the Catholic Church and landlords, led by General Francisco Franco. In the political climate of the time, this civil war became the focus of foreign interests advocating conflicting ideas of democracy and fascism. Spain became a training ground where Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy tested military techniques intended for use in a yet to be declared wider world war. Although most Western nations embraced a neutrality pact, individual volunteers from around the world, including the United States, made their way to Spain to support the Republican cause. Among the Americans was Robert Hale Merriman, a scholar who had been studying international economics in Europe. He and his wife, Marion, joined volunteers from fifty-four countries in International Brigades. Merriman became the first commander of the Americans; Abraham Lincoln Battalion and a leader among the International Brigades. Now available in a new paperback edition, American Commander in Spain is based on Merriman and Marion's diaries and personal correspondence, Marion's own service at his side in Spain, as well as Warren Lerude's extensive research and interviews with people who knew Merriman and Marion, government records, and contemporary news reports. This critically acclaimed work is both the biography of a remarkable man who combined his idealism with life-risking action to fight fascism threatening Europe and Marion's vivid first-hand account of life in Spain during the civil war that became a prologue to the Second World War.
Author : Peter N. Carroll,James D. Fernandez,Museum of the City of New York
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814716816
Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War provides a window into New York during the 1930s - a city in ferment, writing from the economic pains inflicted by the Depression, but redolent with idealism born from the hope of a better tomorrow - in an effort to better understand the era's broad-based activism. This collection of original essays examines the political discourse and conflict that gripped New York during the war and provides portraits of ordinary men and women who, following their own beliefs and consciences, did extraordinary things.
Author : Arthur H. Landis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Spain
ISBN : UOM:39015007039731
Author : Muriel Rukeyser
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781558618206
Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.
Author : Edwin Rolfe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436699274
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : Danny Duncan Collum,Victor A. Berch,Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029278119
Author : Peter N. Carroll
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820337920
At once memoir and meditation, Keeping Time records one professional historian's struggle to live in history even as he studies it, writes about it, and teaches it. Exploring the omnipresence of the past in American life today, Peter N. Carroll weaves into his autobiographical narrative a wealth of provocative observations on the practice of history, the connections between “small” lives and large forces, and the relationship of personal choice to public activity. Carroll feels compelled to view the past in a different way—not as something remote from the present, but as a vital current in everyone's life. He strives to popularize history, reminding us that the particulars of ordinary life are indeed historical, that all human beings, however “obscure” or “important,” exist in time, and that each must live in history.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1117243754
Author : Gaynor Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350227835
Written in tribute to the work of Professor Alan Dobson, this collection of essays brings diplomacy and the Anglo-American relationship together, considering politics and foreign policy in tandem with cultural interactions. Uniquely placed to define exactly what transatlanticism is, and to explore the ways in which this idea has evolved in the last 150 years, this book asks to what extent can it be argued that there was a transatlantic world, how can it be defined and what was unique about it? With contributions from leading scholars it offers an overview of the field as well as a comparative exploration of Anglo-American relations. From emotion in foreign policy decision making, to the RAF in the Vietnam War, as well as leader personalities and transatlantic reactions to women's rights in China, Transatlanticism and Transnationalism since the First World War explores this 'special relationship' at many levels and from many angles. It further asks how this relationship has evolved over the years, and considers how it might survive in a globalized, post-industrial world.
Author : Carl Geiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 1606351745
This title provides a unique perspective into the motivations that led a young man from the American heartland to defy US neutrality and travel to Spain to fight in defence of democracy against Nazi- and Fascist-backed aggression.
Author : Hank Rubin,Peter N. Carroll
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-12-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809323176
In 1937, Hank Rubin, a 20-year-old pre-med student volunteered for service in the International Brigades fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. In this memoir, Rubin recalls the heroics and suffereing he witnessed as well as the disappointing treatment he received upon his return.