The Olive Groves Of Belchite
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The Olive Groves Of Belchite
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Author : Elena Moya Pereira
language : en
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Release Date : 2009
The Olive Groves Of Belchite written by Elena Moya Pereira and has been published by Vanguard Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Family secrets categories.
A weekday morning in London. Maria flies in from Barcelona to choose a UK base for the Caves Gratallops cava business. The lover she will bring home will be the last person her Catholic family expects. Or her fiance, Jordi Gratallops. A long-standing member of Opus Dei, he too finds himself in a crisis of loyalties when old enemies put his father's business in jeopardy. Both have secrets they will struggle to explain, and time is running out. Moving between the long shadows of the Spanish Civil War and the business battles of a global economy, The Olive Groves of Belchite is Elena Moya Pereira s tale of how the past haunts our lives and of the battles that have just begun when the fighting is over. The Olive Groves of Belchite is a layered, well-paced novel fusing times and themes within the framework of a love story with a difference."
Death In The Olive Groves
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Author : Arthur H. Landis
language : en
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Release Date : 1989
Death In The Olive Groves written by Arthur H. Landis and has been published by Paragon House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Comrades And Commissars
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Author : Cecil D. Eby
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2007
Comrades And Commissars written by Cecil D. Eby and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
In the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spain&—the start of what would become the Spanish Civil War. Despite U.S. laws banning participation in foreign conflicts, American volunteers began pouring into Barcelona in January 1937. The most famous of these anti-Franco groups was the band of 2,800 American fighters who called themselves the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. In Comrades and Commissars, Cecil D. Eby pushes beyond the bias that has dominated study of the Lincoln Battalion and gets to the very heart of the American experience in Spain. Controversy has plagued the Lincoln Battalion from the very start. Were these men selfless defenders of liberty or un-American Communists? Eby has long been regarded as one of the few balanced interpreters of their history. His 1969 book, Between the Bullet and the Lie, won accolades for its rigorous and fair treatment of the Battalion. Comrades and Commissars builds upon that earlier study, incorporating a wealth of information collected over intervening decades. New oral histories, previously untranslated memoirs, and newly declassified official documents all lend even greater authority and perspective to Eby&’s account. Most significant is Eby&’s use of Lincoln Battalion archives sequestered in a Moscow storeroom for sixty years. These papers draw renewed focus on some of the most provocative questions surrounding the Battalion, including the extent to which Americans were persecuted&—and even executed&—by the brigade commissariat. The Americans who served in the Lincoln Battalion were neither mythic figures nor political abstractions. Poorly trained and equipped, they committed themselves to back-to-the-wall defense of the doomed Spanish Republic. In Comrades and Commissars, we at last have the authoritative account of their experiences.
The International Brigades
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Author : Giles Tremlett
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-15
The International Brigades written by Giles Tremlett and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with History categories.
** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** 'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of purpose and potential glory, these disparate groups of idealistic young men and women formed a volunteer army of a size and type unseen since the Crusades, known as the International Brigades. Were they heroes or fools? Saints or bloodthirsty adventurers? And what exactly did they achieve? In this magisterial history, Giles Tremlett tells – for the first time – the story of the Spanish Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group. Drawing on the Brigades' archives in Moscow, as well as first-hand accounts, The International Brigades captures all the human drama of a historic mission to halt fascist expansion in Europe.
A History Of The Peninsula War
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Author : Charles William Chadwick Oman
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-05-23
A History Of The Peninsula War written by Charles William Chadwick Oman and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-23 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original: A History of the Peninsula War by Charles William Chadwick Oman
Queer Cities Queer Cultures
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Author : Jennifer V. Evans
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-08-28
Queer Cities Queer Cultures written by Jennifer V. Evans and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-28 with History categories.
Queer Cities, Queer Cultures examines the formation and make-up of urban subcultures and situates them against the stories we typically tell about Europe and its watershed moments in the post 1945 period. The book considers the degree to which the iconic events of 1945, 1968 and 1989 influenced the social and sexual climate of the ensuing decades, raising questions about the form and structure of the 1960s sexual revolution, and forcing us to think about how we define sexual liberalization - and where, how and on whose terms it occurs. An international team of authors explores the role of America in shaping particular forms of subculture; the significance of changes in legal codes; differing modes of queer consumption and displays of community; the difficult fit of queer (as opposed to gay and lesbian) politics in liberal democracies; the importance of mobility and immigration in modulating queer urban life; the challenge of AIDS; and the arrival of the internet. By exploring the queer histories of cities from Istanbul to Helsinki and Moscow to Madrid, Queer Cities, Queer Cultures makes a significant contribution to our understanding of urban history, European history and the history of gender and sexuality.
Crusade Of The Left
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Author : Robert Rosenstone
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-06
Crusade Of The Left written by Robert Rosenstone and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with History categories.
Between 1936 and 1938, some 3,000 young Americans sailed to France and crossed the Pyrenees to take part in the brutal civil war raging in Spain. Virtually all joined the International Brigades, formed under the auspices of the Soviet-led Comintern and largely directed by Communists. Yet a large number were not Communists; their activism was inspired by domestic and international crises of the 1930s, and colored by idealism.The men who went to Spain came out of a radical subculture that emerged from the Depression and the New Deal. Th is radicalism was a native plant, but it was nourished from abroad. In the thirties the menace of fascism seemed to be spreading like cancer across Europe, giving an international aspect to many domestic problems in the United States. To intellectuals, students, unionists, liberals, and leftists, the threat of fascism was so real that many came to believe that if it was not stopped in Spain, eventually they would have to take up arms against fascism at home.To understand the Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War it is necessary to bury some of the shibboleths of cold war years. Dissidence in the United States occurs in response to perceptions of reality on this side of the Atlantic, not because of the wishes of men in the Soviet Union. Th e members of the Lincoln Battalion were genuine products of America, and their story is properly a page in American military and political history. From them, one can learn much about the world of the 1930s and perhaps even something about the potential of modern man for thought and action in time of crisis.
Love And Revolutionary Greetings
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Author : Laurie E. Levinger
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2012-02-27
Love And Revolutionary Greetings written by Laurie E. Levinger and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-27 with Religion categories.
Love and Revolutionary Greetings: An Ohio Boy in the Spanish Civil War is the story of Sam Levinger, a young man who went to Spain in 1937 to join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Civil war raged in Spain as the fascist army of Francisco Franco sought to overthrow the democratically elected Republic. Levinger, a dedicated idealist, made the commitment to go to a foreign country to fight fascism. Love and Revolutionary Greetings is placed in the historical context of the 1930s, when freedom everywhere was threatened by Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini. The book is based on Sam Levinger's letters, poems, and stories that he sent home from Spain, interspersed with those of his mother, Elma Levinger. Told in the words of a soldier son and his mother, as well as other members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the book offers an eyewitness account of the hardships and the politics of the times. Men and women from all over the world went to Spain to fight with the International Brigade to defend Spanish democracy. Twenty-eight hundred men and women from the United States joined the International Brigade. Sam Levinger was one of them. Sam died in Spain when he was twenty years old. The author, Sam Levinger's niece, traveled to Spain to search for his unmarked grave. Love and Revolutionary Greetings tells the emotional and political story of American involvement in the Spanish Civil War in the language of people who lived it.
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion
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Author : Victor Howard
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1987-06-15
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion written by Victor Howard and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-06-15 with History categories.
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, this is the story of the Canadians who went to fight in that epic conflict.
Les Oliveres De Belchite Ebook
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Author : MOYA PEREIRA, ELENA
language : ca
Publisher: SUMA
Release Date : 2011-11-25
Les Oliveres De Belchite Ebook written by MOYA PEREIRA, ELENA and has been published by SUMA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-25 with Fiction categories.
"Movent-se entre les llargues ombres de la guerra que va marcar Espanya i les batalles de negocis de l#economia global actual, Les oliveres de Belchite és la història de com el passat turmenta les nostres vides, així com de les batalles que comencen quan finalitza la lluita. Una novel·la amb molts plans i un ritme perfecte, que es desenvolupa entre Espanya i el Regne Unit, entre vinyes i oliveres, que fusiona èpoques i temes dins el marc d#una inesperada història d#amor. Una saga de tres dones que es van enfrontar al franquisme i als seus vestigis en l#actualitat. La Nostra Història ha anat fent salts de novel·la en novel·la al llarg del temps per a finalment romandre a les planes de Les oliveres de Belchite. «La novel·la d'Elena Moya és un miracle. No només esgrimeix com la Guerra Civil va destrossar milers de vides i amors, sinó que també deixa traslluir com les conseqüències del conflicte encara estan molt presents avui. D'una manera íntima, la novel·la il·lustra les limitacions que una democràcia tan curta imposa en la vida de tots els espanyols». Paul Preston
