The odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade : Americans in the Spanish Civil War / Peter N. Carroll
- Bib ID:
- 306445
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- Carroll, Peter N
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994
- xiv, 440 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0804722765
- 0804722773
- Summary:
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For over half a century, the history of the Abraham Lincoln brigade - the 2,800 young Americans who volunteered to fight for the Spanish Republic against General Francisco Franco's rebellion in 1936 - has been shrouded in myth, legend, and controversy. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, objective, and deeply researched account of the brigade's experience in Spain and what happened to the survivors when they returned to the United States. (About one-third of the volunteers died in Spain.) The book is largely based on previously unused sources, including the newly opened Russian archives, and more than 100 oral histories.
The author charts the volunteers' motivations for enlisting in the fight against Spanish fascism and places their actions in the context of the Depression era. The battleground experiences of the brigade have never before been depicted in such vivid detail, and such battles as Jarama, Belchite, and the Ebro come alive in the participants' words. The author uses the military aspects of the war to illuminate such related issues as the influence of political ideology on military events and the psychology of a volunteer army. He also closely examines the role of the Communist party in the conduct of the war, including the "Orwell question" - allegations of a Communist reign of terror in Spain - and investigates the alleged racial problems within the brigade, the first fully integrated military unit in American history.
The book continues the saga of the brigade by relating the problems of the surviving volunteers with the U.S. army during World War II; their opposition to the Cold War, the Vietnam war, and U.S. intervention in Central America; their persecution during the Red Scare of the 1950's; and their involvement with the civil rights movement.
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- Part I. Causes: 1. The origins of a crusade
- 2. A radical tradition
- 3. Awakening in hard times
- 4. Forging the popular front
- 5. The tomb of fascism
- 6. The politicization of culture
- Part II. Spain: 7. Into the valley
- 8. The discipline of command
- 10. The fires of Brunete
- 11. A disciplined army
- 12. The great retreats
- 13. 'You are legend'
- Part III. Veterans: 14. Coming home
- 15. Between the wars
- 16. The war of words
- 17. Premature anti-fascists
- 18. Red scares and blacklists
- 20. The trials
- 21. The politics of culture
- 22. Alienated artists
- 23. Bridging old left and new
- 24. The death watch
- Epilogue
- A note on sources
- Notes
- Index.
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- Includes bibliographical references (p. [385]-429) and index.
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