Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War

By: Jim [editor] JUMP

This book brings together leading British and Spanish historians in an examination of key aspects and themes of the Spanish Civil War. Contributors discuss the politics of memory; recent revisionist historiography; biographies of international volunteers; the experience of nursing in Catalonia; the baptism of fire of Jarama; Britain's blocking of aid to the Republic; Soviet intervention in the conflict; and the crimes of Franco, both during and after the war. Contributors: Richard Baxell, Juli n Casanova, Helen Graham, Angela Jackson, Enrique Moradiellos, Paul Preston, Francisco J Romero Salvad and ngel Vi as Jim Jump is editor of Poems from Spain: British and Irish International Brigaders on the Spanish Civil War (2006); and co-editor of a Spanish anthology of poems by International Brigaders from the British Isles, Hablando de leyendas: Poemas para Espa a (2009). The son of a British International Brigader and a Spanish Republican refugee, he is a trustee of the International Brigade Memorial Trust. Published in association with Ca ada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907103112
• ISBN13: 9781907103117
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"