Spain Mad British Engagement With The Spanish Civil War
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Spain Mad British Engagement With The Spanish Civil War
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Author : Tom Buchanan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-06
Spain Mad British Engagement With The Spanish Civil War written by Tom Buchanan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06 with History categories.
Taking inspiration from a police informer's comment that his workmates had gone "Spain mad" in response to the Spanish Civil War, this book uses biographical studies to explore the nature of British engagement with the conflict. The opening chapter presents a general analysis of the subject and assesses the available evidence. Some 2400 Britons volunteered to fight in the conflict and some 500 died there. Accordingly, the International Brigades are well represented in the book, with chapters on two of the commanders of the British Battalion (Wilfred Macartney and Fred Copeman) and the Anglo-Canadian volunteer Frank Whitfield. Two of the other subjects (George Orwell and Felicia Browne) fought in other units. However, the book shows that engagement in the Civil War could take many forms: hence, the chapters on the journalist Philip Jordan, clergyman E. O. Iredell, and the humanitarian activist and politician G.T. Garratt. The remaining chapters look at three historians and writers who have shaped the understanding of the Civil War in Britain: Orwell, Hugh Thomas and Jim Fyrth. The book is based on extensive new research, and many of these subjects have never previously been studied in any depth.
Spain Mad British Engagement With The Spanish Civil War
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Author : Tom Buchanan
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2024-06-15
Spain Mad British Engagement With The Spanish Civil War written by Tom Buchanan and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-15 with History categories.
Taking inspiration from a police informer’s comment that his workmates had gone “Spain mad” in response to the Spanish Civil War, this book uses biographical studies to explore the nature of British engagement with the conflict. The opening chapter presents a general analysis of the subject and assesses the available evidence. Some 2400 Britons volunteered to fight in the conflict and some 500 died there. Accordingly, the International Brigades are well represented in the book, with chapters on two of the commanders of the British Battalion (Wilfred Macartney and Fred Copeman) and the Anglo-Canadian volunteer Frank Whitfield. Two of the other subjects (George Orwell and Felicia Browne) fought in other units. However, the book shows that engagement in the Civil War could take many forms: hence, the chapters on the journalist Philip Jordan, clergyman E. O. Iredell, and the humanitarian activist and politician G.T. Garratt. The remaining chapters look at three historians and writers who have shaped the understanding of the Civil War in Britain: Orwell, Hugh Thomas and Jim Fyrth. The book is based on extensive new research, and many of these subjects have never previously been studied in any depth.
British Representations Of The Spanish Civil War
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Author : Brian Shelmerdine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
British Representations Of The Spanish Civil War written by Brian Shelmerdine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Shelmerdine shows that traditional notions in Britain of Spain as a country of bullfighting, bandits and flamenco were pervasive, and were significant in shaping wider UK government policy towards Spain in the period of the civil war. He assesses political perceptions of the 1930s Spanish scene such as race and ethnicity.
The British Government And The Spanish Civil War 1936 1939
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Author : Jill Edwards
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan
Release Date : 1979
The British Government And The Spanish Civil War 1936 1939 written by Jill Edwards and has been published by MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
Into The Heart Of The Fire
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Author : James K. Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Into The Heart Of The Fire written by James K. Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with HISTORY categories.
This book provides a compelling and vivid account of British involvement in the Spanish Civil War, examining the experience of the British volunteers in the International Brigades, and placing them in a broad intellectual, political, social, and cultural framework. Incorporating some familiar and many new voices of a turbulent decade, it analyzes the manner in which British men and women conceptualized their engagement with the political issues of their time--whether they were Oxbridge aesthetes or militants from the factories, the mines, and the ranks of the unemployed. The event that galvanized the volunteers and the many thousands who supported them in Great Britain was the rising of General Franco and his allies against the democratically elected Second Spanish Republic on July 17, 1936. As a counterpart to German and Italian intervention on behalf of the insurgents, the Soviet Union instructed the Comintern to recruit and organize an international volunteer army to come to the aid of the Republic. The International Brigades quickly achieved mythical status as the century's most conspicuous example of dedicated idealism, serving the cause of democracy in peril. The early "spontaneous" fighters and, later, the British Battalion in the XVth International Brigade, which included some 2,000 volunteers, fought in every major campaign of the war; about 85 percent of the Battalion's members were killed or wounded. The author is the first scholar to make systematic use of the recently opened archive of the International Brigades in Moscow, enabling him to take the measure of the nobility and tragedy of the British sacrifice in Spain. His study confirms popular mythology about the International Brigades in certain respects and sharply disputes it in others. Above all, Into the Heart of the Fire establishes the fact that the British volunteers were not social or neurotic misfits. Rather, they reflected in a distinctive way the political concerns of many of their generation.
The Passionate War
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Author : Peter Wyden
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 1983
The Passionate War written by Peter Wyden and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with History categories.
"The Spanish Civil War was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans, who were loyal to the established Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists prevailed, and Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from 1939 until his death in 1975."--Wikipedia.
Unlikely Warriors
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Author : Richard Baxell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Unlikely Warriors written by Richard Baxell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Spain categories.
The Spanish Civil War And The British Left
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Author : Lewis H. Mates
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Spanish Civil War And The British Left written by Lewis H. Mates and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
A New International History Of The Spanish Civil War
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Author : Michael Alpert
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1994-06-28
A New International History Of The Spanish Civil War written by Michael Alpert and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-28 with History categories.
'...a lucid and scholarly account of an important and immensely complex subject...Dr. Alpert's command of a broad range of archival material, printed documents and secondary works in six languages is extremely impressive.' - P. Preston, London School of Economics and Political Science It is now twenty years since a study was dedicated to the international aspects of the Spanish Civil War and this new synthesis covering the whole of the era and setting it against major events of the late 1930s is well overdue. Michael Alpert takes full advantage of newly accessible archival sources to disentangle the intricacies of this complex issue.
The Irish And The Spanish Civil War 1936 39
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Author : R. A. Stradling
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1999
The Irish And The Spanish Civil War 1936 39 written by R. A. Stradling and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threw Irish politics, north and south of the border, into turmoil. Ireland sent large organised bodies of men to fight on opposite sides in the Spanish Civil War, essentially enemy crusades.