Alexander Clifford is a history teacher by profession who has studied at the universities of Leeds, Munich and Northumbria, and is an expert on the Spanish Civil War. His previous publications include a study of the Republican army, The People's Army in the Spanish Civil War: A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades 1936-1939, as well as Divided We Fall, an interactive novel app set in the civil war. He also co-hosts a podcast entitled History's Most which looks at lesser-known events and figures from history and has covered twentieth-century Spain in depth.
...a well-documented and attractively illustrated history of volunteers who sided with the government. -- Toy Soldier Collector & Historical Figures Clifford addresses the communist bias in the selection of officers, which often led to serious casualties due to inept but politically connected commanders, and the suppression of political dissenters, both matters usually ignored in books on the brigades. He also handles the larger war rather well, noting that atrocities were perpetrated by both sides. A good book on a contentious subject. -- The NYMAS Review