Madrid 1937 | Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War
Author - Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Cary Nelson, Cary Nelson, Jefferson Hendricks
Year published - 1996
Published by - Psychology Press
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Spanish Civil War & Interwar Years
Summary
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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Author - Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Cary Nelson, Cary Nelson, Jefferson Hendricks
Year published - 1996
Published by - Psychology Press
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Spanish Civil War & Interwar Years
Summary
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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Author - Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Cary Nelson, Cary Nelson, Jefferson Hendricks
Year published - 1996
Published by - Psychology Press
Book Format - Hard Cover
Genre - Spanish Civil War & Interwar Years
Summary
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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