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THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES - GILES TREMLETT KAR...

** 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.

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