The Odyssey Of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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Author |
: Peter N. Carroll |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804722773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804722773 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by : Peter N. Carroll
Looks at the role of the United States in the Spanish Civil War
Author |
: Cary Nelson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 535 |
Release |
: 2014-02-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136666315 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136666311 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Madrid 1937 by : Cary Nelson
Few topics in 20th century history generate as much interest as the Spanish Civil War. These letter from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade take us back to a time when 2800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist calvary on the battlefields of Spain. Here are their combat experiences, the love letters they wrote under fire, friendships formed among themselves and with their Spanish comrades, and reports of Madrid and Barcelona undergoing history's first saturation bombing of civilian targets. It was the eve of World War II, and these men and women saw first-hand the danger facing the world. Iadrid 1937 captures for the first time the thoughts, words and dreams of those who fought. More than a collection of separate letters, Madrid 1937 gathers letters from many hands to tell a group story. Richly illustrated with over 50 color and black and white plates, this chronicle enables the reader to travel with the volunteers through France and Spain; visit the beseiged city of Madrid and walk the streets of Barcelona under fascist bombardment; experience the chaos of battle and the excitement of celebrations behind the lines; stand beside nurses and doctors as they struggle to save the lives of the wounded; and encounter famous writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Langston Hughes. Madrid 1937 tells a story of epic proportion, the struggle of a volunteer army who chose to risk their lives in the struggle against Fascism.
Author |
: William Loren Katz |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 105 |
Release |
: 2013-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781620329016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1620329018 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lincoln Brigade by : William Loren Katz
THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Few Lincolns had any military training. More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle. Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites. The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander. William Loren Katz and the late Marc Crawford twice traveled with the Brigade to Spain in the 1980s, interviewed surviving Lincolns on old battlefields, and obtained never-before-published documents and photographs for this book.
Author |
: Marion Merriman |
Publisher |
: University of Nevada Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1948908743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781948908740 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Commander in Spain by : Marion Merriman
The Spanish Civil War (1936—1939) was a confrontation between supporters of Spain's democratically elected Republic—including peasants, communists, union workers, and anarchists—and an alliance of nationalist Army rebels and upper-class forces, including the Catholic Church and landlords, led by General Francisco Franco. In the political climate of the time, this civil war became the focus of foreign interests advocating conflicting ideas of democracy and fascism. Spain became a training ground where Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy tested military techniques intended for use in a yet to be declared wider world war. Although most Western nations embraced a neutrality pact, individual volunteers from around the world, including the United States, made their way to Spain to support the Republican cause. Among the Americans was Robert Hale Merriman, a scholar who had been studying international economics in Europe. He and his wife, Marion, joined volunteers from fifty-four countries in International Brigades. Merriman became the first commander of the Americans; Abraham Lincoln Battalion and a leader among the International Brigades. Now available in a new paperback edition, American Commander in Spain is based on Merriman and Marion's diaries and personal correspondence, Marion's own service at his side in Spain, as well as Warren Lerude's extensive research and interviews with people who knew Merriman and Marion, government records, and contemporary news reports. This critically acclaimed work is both the biography of a remarkable man who combined his idealism with life-risking action to fight fascism threatening Europe and Marion's vivid first-hand account of life in Spain during the civil war that became a prologue to the Second World War.
Author |
: William Loren Katz |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 104 |
Release |
: 2013-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781725232815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1725232812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Lincoln Brigade by : William Loren Katz
THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Few Lincolns had any military training. More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle. Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews, blacks and whites. The Brigade was the first fully integrated United States army, and Oliver Law, an African American from Texas, was an early Lincoln commander. William Loren Katz and the late Marc Crawford twice traveled with the Brigade to Spain in the 1980s, interviewed surviving Lincolns on old battlefields, and obtained never-before-published documents and photographs for this book.
Author |
: Edwin Rolfe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1957 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1399012966 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis “The” Lincoln Battalion by : Edwin Rolfe
Author |
: Peter N. Carroll |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 2007-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814716816 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814716814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Facing Fascism by : Peter N. Carroll
When the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, loosely affiliated groups of writers, artists, and other politically aware individuals emerged in New York City to give voice to anti-fascist sentiment by supporting the Spanish Republic. Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War examines the participation of New Yorkers in the political struggles and armed conflict that many historians consider a critical precursor to World War II. Nearly half of the 2,800 Americans who volunteered to fight in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade against Generalissimo Francisco Franco came from the New York area. Fundraising, propaganda, and deployment for anti-fascists everywhere in America were orchestrated through New York City. At the same time, powerful voices in New York expressed sympathy for the pro-fascist side. The fighting in Spain brought to the surface the complex ideological and ethnic identities always present in New York politics. Facing Fascism examines the full range of this experience, including that of the New Yorkers who supported Franco. It addresses the role of doctors, nurses, and social workers who left New York hospitals to provide assistance to the defenders of the Spanish Republic, as well as those who remained active on the home front. The book also describes the involvement of students in the war, the key role of writers and the media, and the contributions made by members of New York's art and theater communities. Facing Fascism also serves as the catalog to an exhibition of the same name appearing at the Museum of the City of New York in the spring of 2007. The book and exhibition both make use of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives' extensive holdings, which range from historical documents to video recordings of oral histories. Numerous other libraries, archives, museums, and private collectors have also been consulted to make this the most complete exhibition of its kind ever mounted. The exhibition will also appear in Spain.
Author |
: Carl Geiser |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1606351745 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781606351741 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Letters from the Spanish Civil War by : Carl Geiser
This title provides a unique perspective into the motivations that led a young man from the American heartland to defy US neutrality and travel to Spain to fight in defence of democracy against Nazi- and Fascist-backed aggression.
Author |
: James K. Hopkins |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 516 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804731276 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804731270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Into the Heart of the Fire by : James K. Hopkins
This book examines the experience of the British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and places them in a broad intellectual, political, social, and cultural framework.
Author |
: Muriel Rukeyser |
Publisher |
: The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2013-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781558618206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1558618201 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Savage Coast by : Muriel Rukeyser
Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.