num_pages: 488
description: After serving in the German Infantry during the First World War, German writer and journalist Gustav Regler served as political commissar of the XII International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Whilst in Spain he befriended Ernest Hemingway and was wounded at the Battle of Guadalajara. As Hemingway states in his preface, "There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write them truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. It is events of this importance that have produced Regler's book."
language: English
title: The Great Crusade
publisher: Longmans, Green and Co