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Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War

Jim Jump

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English
Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
24 June 2010
This book brings together leading British and Spanish historians in an examination of key aspects and themes of the Spanish Civil War. Contributors discuss the politics of memory; recent revisionist historiography; biographies of international volunteers; the experience of nursing in Catalonia; the baptism of fire of Jarama; Britain's blocking of aid to the Republic; Soviet intervention in the conflict; and the crimes of Franco, both during and after the war.
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Imprint:   Lawrence & Wishart Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   290g
ISBN:   9781907103117
ISBN 10:   1907103112
Pages:   224
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Contents 1 Helen Graham The Return of Republican Memory 2 Paul Preston 'No Soldier': The Courage and Comradeship of Dr Len Crome 3 Francisco J Romero Salvado Killing the Dream: The Spanish Labyrinth Revisited, 1898-1939 4 Enrique Moradiellos Albion's Perfidy: The British Government and the Spanish Civil War 5 Richard Baxell Three Months in Spain: The British Battalion at Madrigueras and Jarama from January to March 1937 6 Angela Jackson Beyond the Battlefield: A Cave Hospital in the Spanish Civil War 7 ngel Vinas September 1936: Stalin's Decision to Support the Spanish Republic 8 Richard Baxell Laurie Lee in the International Brigades: Writer or Fighter? 9 Paul Preston The Crimes of Franco 10 Julian Casanova The Spanish Civil War: History and Memory

Jim Jump is editor of Poems from Spain: British and Irish International Brigaders on the Spanish Civil War (2006); and co-editor of a Spanish anthology of poems by International Brigaders from the British Isles, Hablando de leyendas:Poemas para Espana (2009). The son of a British International Brigader and a Spanish Republican refugee, he is a trustee of the International Brigade Memorial Trust.

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