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Unlikely Warriors

The Extraordinary Story Of The Britons Who Fought In The Spanish Civil War

By: Richard Baxell

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Unlikely Warriors

The Extraordinary Story Of The Britons Who Fought In The Spanish Civil War

By: Richard Baxell

On the 17th of July, 1936, a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain. In the face of the rebels' bloody march, the Spanish Republic turned to the leaders of Britain and France for assistance - but its pleas fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent - and beyond - flocked to Spain's aid, many to join the International Brigades.

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1781312338

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9781781312339

Unlikely Warriors

The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism

By: Richard Baxell

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Unlikely Warriors

The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism

By: Richard Baxell

When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent and beyond flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades. More than 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working class backgrounds, leaving behind their livelihoods and their families to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco. Drawing on his own extensive interviews with survivors, research in archives across Britain, Spain and Russia, as well as first-hand accounts by writers both famous and unknown, Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice.

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1781310823

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9781781310823

British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939

By: Richard Baxell

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British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939

By: Richard Baxell

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigadesasking: * Who were these volunteers? * Where did they come from? * Why did they go to Spain? * How much did they actually help the Spanish Republic? In contrast to recent revisionist interpretations, this work stresses the crucial importance of the war experience itself, rather than political ideology, in the understanding of the volunteers' role and experiences within the Spanish war. This book will be of essential interest to historians and those interested in the Spanish Civil War.

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Routledge

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1134345763

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9781134345762

Unlikely Warriors

The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism

By: Richard Baxell

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The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism

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The Morbid Age

Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939

By: Richard Overy

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The Morbid Age

Britain and the Crisis of Civilisation, 1919 - 1939

By: Richard Overy

British intellectual life between the wars stood at the heart of modernity. The combination of a liberal, uncensored society and a large educated audience for new ideas made Britain a laboratory for novel ways to understand the world. The Morbid Age opens a window onto this creative but anxious era, the golden age of the public intellectual and scientist: Arnold Toynbee, Aldous and Julian Huxley, H. G. Wells, Marie Stopes and a host of others. Yet, as Richard Overy argues, a striking characteristic of so many of the ideas that emerged from this new age - from eugenics to Freud's unconscious, to modern ideas of pacifism and world government - was the fear that the West was facing a possibly terminal crisis of civilization. The modern era promised progress of a kind, but it was overshadowed by a growing fear of decay and death, an end to the civilized world and the arrival of a new Dark Age - even though the country had suffered no occupation, no civil war and none of the bitter ideological rivalries of inter-war Europe, and had an economy that survived better than most. The Morbid Age explores how this strange paradox came about. Ultimately, Overy shows, the coming of war was almost welcomed as a way to resolve the contradictions and anxieties of this period, a war in which it was believed civilization would be either saved or utterly destroyed.

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Penguin UK

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0141930861

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9780141930862

The Twilight Years

The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

By: Richard Overy

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The Twilight Years

The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

By: Richard Overy

From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern England By the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, was a creeping fear that the West was staring down the end of civilization. In their home country of Britain, many of these fears were unfounded. The country had not suffered from economic collapse, occupation, civil war, or any of the ideological conflicts of inter-war Europe. Nevertheless, the modern era?s promise of progress was overshadowed by a looming sense of decay and death that would deeply influence creative production and public argument between the wars. In The Twilight Years, award-winning historian Richard Overy examines the paradox of this period and argues that the coming of World War II was almost welcomed by Britain?s leading thinkers, who saw it as an extraordinary test for the survival of civilization? and a way of resolving their contradictory fears and hopes about the future.

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Penguin

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110149834X

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9781101498347

Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in Spain

The Valencian Anarchist Movement, 1918-1936

By: Richard Purkiss

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Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in Spain

The Valencian Anarchist Movement, 1918-1936

By: Richard Purkiss

Drawing on a range of previously underused primary sources, this title shows that not only was Valencia a hugely important source of anarchist support, but that the local movement was far more radical than has previously been thought.

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Apollo Books

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1845194616

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9781845194611

Hell and Good Company

The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made

By: Richard Rhodes

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Hell and Good Company

The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made

By: Richard Rhodes

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional atrists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gelhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. It spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology. New aircraft, weapons, tactics, and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict. Progress also arose from the horror: doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and frontline blood tansfusion. Rhodes takes us into the battlefields, bomb shelters, and hospitals; into the studios of artists; and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters, showing how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the world forever." --

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320

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Simon and Schuster

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1451696221

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9781451696226

Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground

Repression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town : the Human Consequences of the Spanish Civil War

By: Richard Barker

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Repression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town : the Human Consequences of the Spanish Civil War

By: Richard Barker

Examines the human consequences (individual, social, cultural, and economic) of civil war and political repression in Castilleja del Campo, a town in southern Spain with barely more than 600 inhabitants. This title presents the events from the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 onward from multiple points of view.

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Apollo Books

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1845195361

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9781845195366

Book's by Richard Baxell

Unlikely Warriors

Unlikely Warriors

Unlikely Warriors

Unlikely Warriors

British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

Unlikely Warriors

Unlikely Warriors

The Morbid Age

The Morbid Age

The Twilight Years

The Twilight Years

Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in Spain

Democracy, Trade Unions and Political Violence in Spain

Hell and Good Company

Hell and Good Company

Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground

Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground

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