Comrades and Commissars : The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War

Pennsylvania State University Press

Comrades and CommissarsThe Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War\nAuthor(s): Cecil D. Eby\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271029108, 978-0271029108\nSynopsis\nIn the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spainthe start of what would become the Spanish Civil War. Despite [url] laws banning participation in foreign conflicts, American volunteers began pouring into Barcelona in January 1937. The most famous of these anti-Franco groups was the band of 2,800 American fighters who called themselves the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. In Comrades and Commissars, Cecil D. Eby pushes beyond the bias that has dominated study of the Lincoln Battalion and gets to the very heart of the American experience in Spain.\n\nControversy has plagued the Lincoln Battalion from the very start. Were t.