Madrid 1937

Description:

These letters will lift your spirit and break your heart. They will take you back to a time when 2,800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist cavalry on the battlefields of Spain. Here are the actual letters that Abraham Lincoln Brigade members wrote home from 1936 to 1939. Here are accounts of their combat experiences, the love letters they wrote under fire, tales of the friendships they formed among themselves and with their Spanish comrades, and their reports of history's first saturation bombing of civilian targets in Madrid and Barcelona. It was the eve of World War II, and these men and women saw clearly the danger the world was facing. Now, both those who died and those who lived tell us their stories for the first time.

subjects: Correspondence,  American Personal narratives,  Americans,  Spain,  Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion,  Soldiers,  American Participation,  Biography,  History,  Abraham Lincoln Brigade,  Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV,  Spain, history, civil war, 1936-1939,  Spain, history, civil war, 1936-1939, personal narratives,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Historical,  Spain & Portugal,  Military participation,  American,  Spaanse burgeroorlog,  Spanischer Bürgerkrieg,  United States. Army. Abraham Lincoln Brigade,  United States,  Spanish Civil War,  Personal narratives

Places: Spain

Times: Civil War, 1936-1939,  1936-1939