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Author : George Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781528952569
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)
Download or read book The Aberdeen Volunteers Fighting in the Spanish Civil War written by George Scott and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fraser Raeburn
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474459498
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Scots and the Spanish Civil War written by Fraser Raeburn and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on newly-declassified government documents and international archives in Spain and beyond, this book explores the many ways in which Scots responded to the Spanish Civil War (1936-9).
Author : Richard Baxell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134345763
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War written by Richard Baxell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in the British Battalion of the 15 International Brigadesasking: * Who were these volunteers? * Where did they come from? * Why did they go to Spain? * How much did they actually help the Spanish Republic? In contrast to recent revisionist interpretations, this work stresses the crucial importance of the war experience itself, rather than political ideology, in the understanding of the volunteers' role and experiences within the Spanish war. This book will be of essential interest to historians and those interested in the Spanish Civil War.
Author : Daniel Gray
Publisher : Luath Press
ISBN 13 : 9781906817169
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Homage to Caledonia written by Daniel Gray and published by Luath Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish civil war was a call to arms for 2,300 British volunteers, of which over 500 were from Scotland. The first book of its kind, Homage to Caledonia examines Scotland's role in the conflict, detailing exactly why Scottish involvement was so profound. The book moves chronologically through events and places, firstly surveying the landscape in contemporary Scotland before describing volunteers' journeys to Spain, and then tracing their every involvement from arrival to homecoming (or not). There is also an account of the non-combative role, from fundraising for Spain and medical aid, to political manoeuvrings within the volatile Scottish left. Using a wealth of previously-unpublished letters sent back from the front as well as other archival items, Daniel Gray is able to tell little known stories of courage in conflict, and to call into question accepted versions of events such as the 'murder' of Bob Smillie, or the heroism of 'The Scots Scarlet Pimpernel'. Homage to Caledonia offers a very human take on events in Spain: for every tale of abject distress in a time of war, there is a tale of a Scottish volunteer urinating in his general's boots, knocking back a dram with Errol Flynn or appalling Spanish comrades with his pipe playing. For the first time, read the fascinating story of Caledonia's role in this seminal conflict.
Author : Colin Williams
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Memorials of the Spanish Civil War written by Colin Williams and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936 while the British government pursued a policy of non-intervention, around 2000 volunteers from Britain and Ireland fought the Republican cause against Franco with the International Brigade. This volume presents a visual record of the many memorials erected as tributes to those who died in the struggle. Unique photographs of the war and an informative text tell the stories of those commemorated.
Author : Donald Sinclair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The History of the Aberdeen Volunteers written by Donald Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Baxell
Publisher : Aurum
ISBN 13 : 1781310823
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Unlikely Warriors written by Richard Baxell and published by Aurum. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a Nationalist military uprising was launched in Spain in July 1936, the Spanish Republic’s desperate pleas for assistance from the leaders of Britain and France fell on deaf ears. Appalled at the prospect of another European democracy succumbing to fascism, volunteers from across the Continent and beyond flocked to Spain’s aid, many to join the International Brigades. More than 2,500 of these men and women came from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth, and contrary to popular myth theirs was not an army of adventurers, poets and public school idealists. Overwhelmingly they hailed from modest working class backgrounds, leaving behind their livelihoods and their families to fight in a brutal civil war on foreign soil. Some 500 of them never returned home. In this inspiring and moving oral history, Richard Baxell weaves together a diverse array of testimony to tell the remarkable story of the Britons who took up arms against General Franco. Drawing on his own extensive interviews with survivors, research in archives across Britain, Spain and Russia, as well as first-hand accounts by writers both famous and unknown, Unlikely Warriors presents a startling new interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and follows a band of ordinary men and women who made an extraordinary choice.
Author : Charles J Esdaile
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526782847
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book British Battles of the Spanish Civil War written by Charles J Esdaile and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Civil War continues to attract attention as a brutal political and military struggle which foreshadowed the wider war across Europe that followed, and it has given rise to myths that have become commonplace since the war ended eighty years ago. Few of these myths are as potent as those associated with the International Brigades, the 45,000 volunteers from many countries who traveled to Spain to fight for the Second Republic. That is why this perceptive and original study by Charles Esdaile is so valuable. Using the recorded experience of the British Brigaders as well as primary research in the Spanish archives, he thoroughly re-examines the contribution they made to the war effort against the Nationalists of General Franco. During the war the Nationalists exaggerated the importance of the International Brigades in order to demonstrate the influence of the Communists on the Republic, and the Republicans portrayed them as part of the great crusade to defend democracy. Then, after the war, surviving Brigaders tended to overstate the part they played and the sacrifices they made. The one fact that nobody would dispute was the terrible losses sustained by the volunteers. This produced an impression that they were veritable men of iron who played a key part in the fighting and helped stave off the Nationalist victory until the eve of the Second World War. By concentrating in close detail on the major battles in which the British Brigaders took part, Charles Esdaile reassesses their impact and considers whether their performance on the battlefield justifies their reputation.
Author : Tom Buchanan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837641366
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Britain written by Tom Buchanan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between Britain and the Spanish Civil War. This book explains the war's legacy and longer-term impact on Britain, and presents a chronological progression from the Civil War to the post-war Franco era. It also provides a discussion of the importance of loss and memory.
Author : Bob Doyle
Publisher : Columba Press (IE)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Brigadista written by Bob Doyle and published by Columba Press (IE). This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irishman's story of his call to fight in the Spanish Civil War includes time in prison and the underground anti-Franco resistance.
Author : Chris Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Battle for Aberdeen, 1644 written by Chris Brown and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever history of the battle for Aberdeen fought during the British Civil Wars. On Friday the 13th September 1644, James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, led the King's army against a Scottish Parliamentary force outside the city of Aberdeen. Although outnumbered two to one the Royalists secured a clear victory over Lord Burleigh's troops and subjected the city of Aberdeen to four days of rape and pillage. This is the story of the battle, the men who fought in it, and the residents of 17th century Aberdeen who suffered the consequences.
Author : Grant G. Simpson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780859763417
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (634 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Soldier Abroad, 1247-1967 written by Grant G. Simpson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays presents historical approaches to the lives of the variety of Scots who fought overseas from the 13th to the 20th century. Topics include: Scots in medieval Ireland; the Scots fighting as part of the 'Auld Alliance' with France in the 15th and 16th centuries; Scots active in warfare in early modern Russia; a Scottish NCO who was in Marlborough's wars and recorded his adventures in an autobiography; a shrewd colonial governor in early 18th-century America; Scottish military experiences in India; soldiers in Romantic fiction, especially Scott's Quentin Durward; the camp and barrack-room life of Scottish regiments in the 19th century; Scots in the Spanish Civil War; and Scottish soldiers as part of the final decades of the British Empire. While set against a military background, these studies also aim to investigate the social contexts in which Scottish soldiers functioned in many lands during a period of seven centuries. This volume is the second in a new series, the Mackie Monographs, based on the Mackie Symposia held in the University of Aberdeen, which have as their theme the historical study of Scotland's overseas links.
Author : Brian Cull
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Battle for the Channel written by Brian Cull and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 July, the official first day of the Battle of Britain, witnessed increased aerial activity over the English Channel and along the eastern and southern seaboards of the British coastline. The main assaults by ever-increasing formations of Luftwaffe bombers, escorted by Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters, were initially aimed at British merchant shipping convoys plying their trade of coal and other materials from the north of England to the southern ports. These attacks often met with increasing success although RAF Spitfires and Hurricanes endeavoured to repel the Heinkel He 111s, Dornier Do 17s and Junkers Ju 88s, frequently with ill-afforded loss in pilots and aircraft. Within a month, the English Channel was effectively closed to British shipping. Only a change in the Luftwaffe’s tactics in mid-August, when the main attack changed to the attempted destruction of the RAF’s southern airfields, allowed convoys to resume sneaking through without too greater hindrance.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Brief written by and published by . This book was released on 1944-12 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Medical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the American Medical Association written by American Medical Association and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 2434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.
Author : Kenneth Estes
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1912174251
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A European Anabasis written by Kenneth Estes and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Estes studies the 100,000 West Europeans who fought against Russia as volunteers for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS. A retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, Estes shows tremendous knowledge of combat and writes gripping battlefield prose. Two-thirds of the West European volunteers came from Spain and the Netherlands, yet Estes demonstrates wide range and covers Flemish, Walloon, French, Danish, and Norwegian combat units. Avoiding over-generalization, the author distinguishes carefully among the Danes and Flemings who fought competently with the SS-Wiking Division and later with Nordland, the courageous but poorly-armed Spanish, the ill-trained Dutch and French in Landstorm Nederland and SS-Charlemagne, and the Norwegians who after a first wave of enthusiasm held back altogether. Estes pulverizes the Nazi propaganda notion of a multinational European army defending 'Western civilization' against 'Bolshevism'. He shows that West Europeans, mainly of the urban working classes, volunteered from a mix of motives -adventure-seeking, ideology, hopes of personal advantage or material gain, a desire for better food, or a wish to escape a criminal record at home. He demonstrates that the best-performing foreign legions were trained and led by German officers and formed parts of larger SS units, and also that the Wehrmacht placed little value on foreign formations until its other manpower reserves ran out in 1944-45. This is a landmark work on a subject, which has been much written about, but rarely understood or described as perceptively as in the pages of this book.
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Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
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