![]() ![]() 'After victory we will get even with them,' Marty wrote of the Stalinists' Popular Front allies, 'all the more so since at that point we will have a strong army. How George Orwell would have loved to have been able to read the reports to Moscow of the Comintern representative André Marty, which bear out the suspicions he enunciated in Homage to Catalonia. ![]() It's all a very far cry from the wide-eyed idealism of Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie. The International Brigades even had their own concentration camp, Camp Lukacs, which held 4,000 inmates. Most soldiers did not know the extent of Stalinist penetration of their upper ranks, let alone the detailed plans to liquidate their anarchist, Trotskyist, socialist and liberal comrades-in-arms the moment that victory was won. While it focuses on the military aspects it takes a detailed and balanced look at all of the forces in Spanish society at the time. A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil Wars outbreak, Antony. Some battalions were left on the front line for 150 days consecutively. The battle for Spain: The Spanish civil war 1936-1939 - Anthony Beevor Anarchist militia fighters in Spain Anthony Beevors definitive history of the Spanish civil war. Far from being admired by the rest of the Republican army, the International Brigades were resented as foreigners and frequently used as cannon fodder to protect the lives of Spaniards. ![]()
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