The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781408854075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 720 str.

Giles Tremlett

Opis

The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism

Recenzje

A narrative of astonishing scope . This latest study is a remarkable act of scholarship, as well as being captivatingly readable. The first overarching history of the brigades in English, it is alive with the testimonies of those who fought, and so much richer for stretching far beyond the obvious and famous Anglophone accounts of men of letters . Tremlett is a worthy custodian of their stories. He has created a dazzling mosaic of vignettes and sources, of lives lived and lost, of acts of heroism, solidarity, betrayal and futility, that builds to a grand picture of a conflict that drew idealists from across the world. The war left many of them in despair, injured or dead - but also hardened many more in their determination to defeat fascism. This book is as close to a definitive history as we are likely to get Dan Hancox Guardian

O autorze

Giles Tremlett is the Guardian's Madrid correspondent. He has lived in, and written about, Spain for the past twenty years.