Fallen Sparrows: The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 212) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780871692122)

The International Brigades were some 32,000 foreigners who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Prof. Michael Jackson peels away some myths that have long obscured them. Some of these concern facts such as their numbers, nations, classes, ages, & political affiliations. Others examine their commitment & motivation for taking part in a war that did not directly involve their native lands. The Brigaders were both more complex & simpler than portrayed in propaganda, myth, in history because the men in the ranks were far more varied than any ideological account can accommodate & simpler because theirs was the universal experience of war. The significance of the International Brigades lies less in the ideological convictions that recruited them than in the endurance they displayed once there. Jackson's goal is to expose some of the mythology & to interpret of the experiences of the Brigadiers.

Author: Michael W. Jackson
ISBN-10: 0871692120
ISBN-13: 9780871692122
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1994
Pages: 157
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 10.22h x 7.35w x 0.68d