The Lincoln Brigade
A Picture History
THE LINCOLN BRIGADEThe day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Few Lincolns had any military training. More than half were seriously wounded or died in battle. Most Lincolns were activists and idealists who had worked with and demonstrated for the homeless and unemployed during the Great Depression. They were poets and blue-collar workers, professors and students, seamen and journalists, lawyers and painters, Christians and Jews,…
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Weitere Autoren: Crawford, Marc
- ISBN: 978-1-72523-281-5
- EAN: 9781725232815
- Produktnummer: 34667111
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 117'303 KB
Über den Autor
William Loren Katz is the award-winning author of forty books. He is a World War II veteran.Marc Crawford won journalism awards for Life Magazine, and served as an Ebony associate editor.Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of history at New York University and the author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics and the Black Working Class, and Yo' Mama's Disfunctional: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America.
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