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Book Review: A century of antifascism

September 15, 2013
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<i>Book Review:</i> A century of antifascism

Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism, by Dave Hann (Zero Books, Winchester, 2013) £18.99*
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Book Review: A short history of the Spanish Civil War

September 15, 2013
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A Short History of the Spanish Civil War, by Julián Casanova (IB Tauris, London, 2012) £12.99
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Book Review: Eyewitness account recovered

September 15, 2013
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<i>Book Review:</i> Eyewitness account recovered

The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic, by Henry Buckley. (London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013). Introduction by Paul Preston.
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Book Review: Rukeyser’s “Lost” Memoir Rediscovered

September 15, 2013
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<i>Book Review:</i> Rukeyser’s “Lost” Memoir Rediscovered

Savage Coast by Muriel Ruykeyser.  The Feminist Press, 2013.
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Review: War Comes to Andalusia

June 20, 2013
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Review: War Comes to Andalusia

Skeletons in the Closet, Skeletons in the Ground: Repression, Victimization and Humiliation in a Small Andalusian Town. By Richard Barker. (London: Sussex Academic Press, 2012).
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Review: The British in Spain

June 20, 2013
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Review: The British in Spain

Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle against Fascism. By Richard Baxell. (London, Aurum, 2012).
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Ralph Fasanella: A More Perfect Union

June 19, 2013
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Ralph Fasanella: A More Perfect Union

Ralph Fasanella’s first gallery retrospective celebrates New York City’s bridges, skylines, and tenements; your neighbors, my neighbors, our memories and our aspirations.   These pictures draw you in to conversations.  You cannot help but stop to comment on them to your friends, the stranger next to you at the gallery, who will soon bond with...
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Review: The road to China

March 17, 2013
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Review: The road to China

Tom Buchanan. East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925-1976 (Oxford University Press, 2012); “Shanghai-Madrid Axis’? Comparing British Responses to the Conflicts in Spain and China, 1936-39”, Contemporary European History 21.4 (November 2012): pp 533-552.
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Review: Novel Characters of Spain’s Civil War

March 16, 2013
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Review: Novel Characters of Spain’s Civil War

Not in My Father's Footsteps. By Terrence Rundle West. (General Store Publishing House, 2011). The Road, and Nothing More. By J.T. Bautista. (Andrea Young Arts / El León Literary Arts, 2012).
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Review: The Catalan spy who saved D-Day

March 16, 2013
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Review: The Catalan spy who saved D-Day

Garbo: The Spy. A documentary by Edmon Roch (Spain, 2009; US release 2012, distributed by First Run Features, 88 minutes).
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