Looking Back at the Spanish Civil War

Jim Jump(editor)

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, Julián Casanova, Helen Graham, Angela Jackson, Enrique Moradiellos, Paul Preston, Francisco J Romero Salvadó and Ángel Viñas

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 España (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 Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies

Contents
1 Helen Graham The Return of Republican Memory
2 Paul Preston 'No Soldier': The Courage and Comradeship of Dr Len Crome
3 Francisco J Romero Salvadó Killing the Dream: The Spanish Labyrinth Revisited, 1898-1939
4 Enrique Moradiellos Albion's Perfidy: The British Government and the Spanish Civil War
5 Richard Baxell Three Months in Spain: The British Battalion at Madrigueras and Jarama from January to March 1937
6 Angela Jackson Beyond the Battlefield: A Cave Hospital in the Spanish Civil War
7 Ángel Viñas September 1936: Stalin's Decision to Support the Spanish Republic
8 Richard Baxell Laurie Lee in the International Brigades: Writer or Fighter?
9 Paul Preston The Crimes of Franco
10 Julián Casanova The Spanish Civil War: History and Memory

Paperback, 224pp
ISBN: 9781907103117
Publication date: June 2010
Published in association with the International Brigade Memorial Trust, and in collaboration with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.