Spain's Cause Was Mine: A Memoir of an American Medic in the Spanish Civil War

by Hank Rubin

Book Overview

"No man ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain."--Ernest Hemingway

In 1937, Hank Rubin, a twenty-year-old Jewish pre-med student at UCLA, volunteered for service in the International Brigades combating fascists in the Spanish Civil War. In his illustrated memoir, Rubin reflects on those events, making no apologies for his youthful impulsiveness, bravado, and ideology, but recalling the heroics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809321599
• ISBN13: 9780809321599
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"