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- Book Title
- Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War
- Publication Date
- 1998-09-01
- Pages
- 500
- ISBN
- 9780804731263
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Into the Heart of the Fire : the British in the Spanish Civil War
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Subject
- Europe / Spain & Portugal, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / Great Britain / General
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 30.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 500 Pages
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This book provides a compelling and vivid account of British involvement in the Spanish Civil War, examining the experience of the British volunteers in the International Brigades, and placing them in a broad intellectual, political, social, and cultural framework. Incorporating some familiar and many new voices of a turbulent decade, it analyzes the manner in which British men and women conceptualized their engagement with the political issues of their time--whether they were Oxbridge aesthetes or militants from the factories, the mines, and the ranks of the unemployed. The event that galvanized the volunteers and the many thousands who supported them in Great Britain was the rising of General Franco and his allies against the democratically elected Second Spanish Republic on July 17, 1936. As a counterpart to German and Italian intervention on behalf of the insurgents, the Soviet Union instructed the Comintern to recruit and organize an international volunteer army to come to the aid of the Republic. The International Brigades quickly achieved mythical status as the century's most conspicuous example of dedicated idealism, serving the cause of democracy in peril. The early "spontaneous" fighters and, later, the British Battalion in the XVth International Brigade, which included some 2,000 volunteers, fought in every major campaign of the war; about 85 percent of the Battalion's members were killed or wounded. The author is the first scholar to make systematic use of the recently opened archive of the International Brigades in Moscow, enabling him to take the measure of the nobility and tragedy of the British sacrifice in Spain. His study confirms popular mythology about the International Brigades in certain respects and sharply disputes it in others. Above all, Into the Heart of the Fire establishes the fact that the British volunteers were not social or neurotic misfits. Rather, they reflected in a distinctive way the political concerns of many of their generation.
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804731268
ISBN-13
9780804731263
eBay Product ID (ePID)
942471
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Into the Heart of the Fire : the British in the Spanish Civil War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Europe / Spain & Portugal, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / Great Britain / General
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
500 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
30.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
98-007835
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Dp269
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"In this impressive book James K. Hopkins offers both an innovative new study of the British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and a penetrating analysis of British radical politics in the 1930s....As a study of the British volunteers, their motivations, and their values, it is unlikely to be bettered. It will be required reading for those who study British involvment in the Civil War and it will surely make a forceful contribution to the wider re-evaluation of the role of the Communist Party in the British left of the 1930s."-- Twentieth Century British History, "Hopkins's triumph is successfully to document both [the idealism of the British volunteers and the Communist exploitation of it]...to tremendous effect. The idealism, the disillusion, the courage, the ruthlessness, the self-sacrifice, and the self-seeking are put into perspective....He is relentlessly honest. Without a doubt, he has written the best book on British participation in the International Brigades and it is difficult, at this point in time, to see how it will be surpassed."-- The Historical Journal, "Chapters of remarkable richness describe and analyse how going to Spain gave many working class autodidacts a sense of their own worth and, despite the defeat of the Spanish Republic, a belief that they were endowed with potential to change things."- War and History, "Chapters of remarkable richness describe and analyse how going to Spain gave many working class autodidacts a sense of their own worth and, despite the defeat of the Spanish Republic, a belief that they were endowed with potential to change things."-- War and History, "In this impressive book James K. Hopkins offers both an innovative new study of the British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and a penetrating analysis of British radical politics in the 1930s....As a study of the British volunteers, their motivations, and their values, it is unlikely to be bettered. It will be required reading for those who study British involvment in the Civil War and it will surely make a forceful contribution to the wider re-evaluation of the role of the Communist Party in the British left of the 1930s."- Twentieth Century British History, "Hopkins's triumph is successfully to document both [the idealism of the British volunteers and the Communist exploitation of it]...to tremendous effect. The idealism, the disillusion, the courage, the ruthlessness, the self-sacrifice, and the self-seeking are put into perspective....He is relentlessly honest. Without a doubt, he has written the best book on British participation in the International Brigades and it is difficult, at this point in time, to see how it will be surpassed."- The Historical Journal, "Hopkins has demonstrated a profound intimacy with his subject. This is an outstanding work, rich in depth and detail, and it deserves to be recognized as a major contribution to the field."American Historical Review, "Hopkins has demonstrated a profound intimacy with his subject. This is an outstanding work, rich in depth and detail, and it deserves to be recognized as a major contribution to the field." American Historical Review
Copyright Date
1998
Dewey Decimal
946.081/4/09222
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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