The International Brigades : fascism, freedom and the Spanish Civil War / Giles Tremlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tremlett, Giles, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional.

Spain.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, Foreign.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 696 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction

Welcome to the games: Barcelona, 19 July 1936

The workers and the army: Madrid, 20 July 1936

Amateur warriors: Tardienta, August-September 1936

The fascists are here: Seville, August 1936

A professional view: Huesca, mid-September 1936

Creating the brigades: Madrid, Moscow, Albacete, October 1936

The tower of Babel: Albacete, October 1936

the first brigade: Gran Vía, Madrid, 8 November 1936

No Pasarán: Parque del Oeste, Madrid, 9 November 1936

Death in the park: Casa de Campo, November 1936

Bulletproof books: University City, Madrid, November 1936

A new brigade: Albacete, Chinchón, Cerro de los Angels, 9 November 1936

Save Madrid: University City, November 1936

Hail, the Saviour of Madrid!: Cinema Monumental, Madrid, November-December 1936

The battle of the mist: Boadilla, 14-23 December 1936

Stalin was still a saint: Albacete, November-December 1936

Sans Nom and the Poles: Southern front, Andalusia, Christmas Eve, 1936

Men in rubber coats: Lopera, 25 December 1936

Justice and a different kind of army: Lopera, January 1937

Mothers and Jews: Algora, 1 January 1937

The final battle for Madrid: Las Rozas, Aravaca, Villanueva, January 1937

Bethune, blood and bombing: The coast between Málaga and Almería, February 1937

A valley called Jarama: Pindoque railway bridge, 11 February 1937

The British: San Martín road, Jarama valley, 12 February 1937

Disobeying orders: Jarama valley, 13 February 1937

The Yanks are coming!: Jarama valley, 16 February 1937

Mussolini at Guadalajara: Brihuega, Torija, Trijueque, 9 March 1937

The Italian Civil War: Brihuega, 10 March 1937

The battle of the loudspeakers: Palace of Ibarra, Brihuega, 13 March 1937

Blue nose and the deserters: Valencia, 20 April 1937

Hemingway: Men and women in war: Brihuega, Madrid, March-April 1937

Damage in Catalonia: Barcelona, late April 1937

Attack!: Guernica and Valsaín, April-June 1937

The death of Lukács: Huesca, early June 1937

Brunete: Denmark, early summer 1937

The Romanillos and Mosquito Ridges: Guadarrama river, 8 July 1937

Resist: Brunete plain, 12 July 1937

The coup that lasted a year: Brunete plain, 18-26 July 1937

The price of war: Brunete plain, 25 July 1937

Vengeance: Quinto, Aragon, 24 August 1937

Conquest: Belchite, 31 August 1937

The North Pole: Teruel, December 1937

Blitzkrieg: Belchite, 9 March 1938

Boy soldiers: Guadalope river, 19 March 1938

Defeat, despair, hope: Móra la Nova, 4 April 1938

Prisoners: The monastery at San Pedro de Cardeña, autumn 1938

The last charge: Ebro river, 24 July 1938

Resist, fortify and be vigilant: La Cova Hospital, La Bisbal de Falset, July-September 1938

Dreams of home: Sierra de Pàndols, early August 1938

The last fight: Barcelona, 16 September 1938

Farewell to arms: Northern Catalonia, 24 September 1938-8 February 1939

'Premature anti-fascists': Paris, 21 August 1941.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ([543]-667) and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

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ISBN:

9781408854006

1408854007

Publisher Number:

99988344581

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