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Brigadistes : lives for liberty / Jordi Martí-Rueda ; translated from Catalan by Mary Ann Newman ; foreword by Jordi Borràs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martí-Rueda, Jordi, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Biography.
- Spain.
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, Foreign.
- Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : Pluto Press, 2022.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Catalan.
- Summary:
- Sixty illustrated profiles of those who fought in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword - Jordi Borras
- Acknowledgements
- Translator's Preface
- Introduction: Living and Reliving
- The Bravest Woman in Barcelona
- Painter and Miliciana
- The Nielsen Brothers
- Welcome to the War, Penny Phelps
- The Long March
- The Nurse from Harlem
- The Road
- The Enemy
- César Covo
- The Bullet that Didn't Whistle
- The Girl With the Truck
- Words and Bullets
- Even the Olives Are Bleeding
- The Man Who Made History
- Smiles
- The Nameless
- The Decision
- Len Crome
- Capitana Etchebehere
- Silence
- The Patient
- Dr. Jolly
- George Nathan's Last Wish
- The Writer Who Didn't Want to Write
- Hot Water
- Beating the Odds
- Mothers
- Harry Fisher
- Don't Close Your Eyes
- Ernst Busch
- Annie Murray
- Erika Glaser
- Frank Fryan
- Merriman
- The Legend
- Jimmy Rutherford
- The Guerrilla Warrior
- Patience Darton
- The Irishman
- Rene Cazala's Last Shot
- Valediction
- Fear
- The Man Who Invented Things
- Nan Green's Blood
- The Heroine
- The Hill
- Hill 666
- The Last Man
- A Glass of Wine Before Dying
- Braina Voss
- Courage
- Write My Name
- The Landless
- Paula Draxler
- Frida Stewart
- Roberto Vincenzi
- Where is My Home?
- Aileen
- Colonel Fabien
- Rol-Tanguy
- Notes
- Sources
- List of Photographs
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Martí-Rueda, Jordi Brigadistes
- ISBN:
- 9780745347134
- 0745347134
- 9780745347387
- 074534738X
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