Madrid 1937
letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish CivilWar
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Author
Contributions
- Nelson, Cary. - Contributor
- Hendricks, Jefferson, 1953- - Contributor
Publication
1996 - Routledge, New York, England
Language
English
Word Count
126,500 words, Guess
Page Count
506 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21396396M
- ISBN-100415914086
- OCLC Control Number870272444
- OCLC Control Number34696627
- Library of Congress Control Number98138978
and 2 more
- LibraryThing640333
- Goodreads1696580
Classifications
- DDC946.0810922
- LCCDP269.47.A46 M33 1996
Description
These letters will lift your spirit and break your heart. They will take you back to a time when 2,800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist cavalry on the battlefields of Spain. Here are the actual letters that Abraham Lincoln Brigade members wrote home from 1936 to 1939. Here are accounts of their combat experiences, the love letters they wrote under fire, tales of the friendships they formed among themselves and with their Spanish comrades, and their reports of history's first saturation bombing of civilian targets in Madrid and Barcelona. It was the eve of World War II, and these men and women saw clearly the danger the world was facing. Now, both those who died and those who lived tell us their stories for the first time.
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