My Grandfather was in the International Brigades
An anonymous short story just posted on the Experience Project:
He was from London and unemployed in the mid 1930’s and feeling ever more bolshevik by the day – so, he signed up to go to Spain and fight Franco and Hitler – and that Mussolini person. … My grandfather worked in an engineering factory after he made it home from World War Two – and he married and raised two daughters – one, my mother – and her older sister – he chose to call Dolores.
More here.