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Book Review: Two New Titles by Alexander Clifford

August 14, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> Two New Titles by Alexander Clifford

Fighting for Spain: The International Brigades in the Civil War, 1936–1939, and The People’s Army in the Spanish Civil War: A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades by Alexander Clifford. Pen and the Sword Military, 2020.
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Book Review: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War

May 11, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War

Not for King or Country: Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War, by Tyler Wentzell. University of Toronto Press, 2020. 386 pp. $32.95.
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Book Review: The Minds and Deeds of the Irish who Fought for the Spanish Republic

May 11, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> The Minds and Deeds of the Irish who Fought for the Spanish Republic

Spanish Trenches: The Minds and Deeds of the Irish who Fought for the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War, by Barry McLoughlin and Emmet O’Connor. University College of Dublin Press, 2020. 400 pp. $35.
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Book Review: Adam Hochschild on Giles Tremlett’s International Brigades

May 11, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> Adam Hochschild on Giles Tremlett’s <em>International Brigades</em>

The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, by Giles Tremlett. 696 pp. London: Bloomsbury. $30.
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Book Review: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War

May 11, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War

No Barrier Can Contain It: Cuban Antifascism and the Spanish Civil War, by Ariel Mae Lambe. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 310 + xvi pp.
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Book Review: Paul Robeson’s Story for Children

February 4, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> Paul Robeson’s Story for Children

Grandpa Stops A War: A Paul Robeson Story, by Susan Robeson. Illustrated by Rod Brown. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2020.
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Book Review: Franco’s Soldiers

February 4, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> Franco’s Soldiers

Soldados de Franco. Reclutamiento forzoso, experiencia de guerra y desmovilización militar, by Francisco J. Leira Castiñeira. Madrid: Siglo XXI, 2020.
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Book Review: Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust

February 4, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust

Spain, the Second World War, and the Holocaust: History and Representation, edited by Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.
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Book Review Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press

November 14, 2020
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<em>Book Review</em> Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press

Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press, by Montse Feu. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
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Martha Graham’s Dances for Spain

November 14, 2020
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Martha Graham’s Dances for Spain

In June, the Martha Graham Dance Company performed Immediate Tragedy, a long-lost solo piece that Graham performed in 1937 in support of the Spanish Republic. Its reconstruction was only possible thanks to a cache of recently recovered photographs of Graham’s original show. Together with Deep Song, inspired by Lorca, the piece marks a crucial...
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