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Book Review: Sketches from Spain

November 18, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> Sketches from Spain

Peter N. Carroll, Sketches from Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag, 2024. ALBA Special Edition. 100 pp. In this powerful collection, poet and historian Peter Carroll crafts portraits of some eighty men and women who volunteered to fight in Spain. Carroll observes, “Valuable as the work of historians...
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Book Review: The Psycho-Brigadista

November 18, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> The Psycho-Brigadista

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune, by Alexander Stille. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 432 pp.
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Book Review: Ybor City & the Latina South

November 18, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> Ybor City & the Latina South

Sarah McNamara, Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2023, 266 pp.
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Book Review: Spanish Republicans in WWII

August 30, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> Spanish Republicans in WWII

Spanish Republicans and the Second World War: Republic Across the Mountains, by Jonathan Whitehead., Philadelphia and South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books, 2021. 304 pp.
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Book Review: Franco’s Many Biographies

August 30, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> Franco’s Many Biographies

Generalísimo. Las vidas de Francisco Franco, 1892-2020, by Javier Rodrigo. Barcelona, Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022. 494 pp.
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Book Review: A New Graphic Novel on the ALB

August 30, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> A New Graphic Novel on the ALB

¡Brigadistas! An American Anti-Fascist in the Spanish Civil War, by Miguel Ferguson. Edited by Paul Buhle and Fraser Ottanelli. Art by Anne Timmons. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2022. 116 pp.
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Book Review: Stansky on Orwell and War

May 18, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> Stansky on Orwell and War

The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War, by Peter Stansky. Stanford University Press. 150 pp.
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Book Review: Kate Mangan’s Persistent Ingenuity

February 17, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> Kate Mangan’s Persistent Ingenuity

Kate Mangan, Never more alive: Inside the Spanish Republic. The Clapton Press, 2020. 346pp.
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Book Review: Black Soldiers in World War II

February 17, 2023
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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. By Matthew F. Delmont. Viking, 2022, 374 pp.
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Book Review: Women Veterans of the Spanish War

November 19, 2022
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<em>Book Review:</em> Women Veterans of the Spanish War

Isabella Lorusso, Fighting Women: Interviews with Veterans of the Spanish Civil War. London: Freedom Press, 2020.
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