Madrid 1937
Subtitle: letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish CivilWar
By: edited by Cary Nelson & Jefferson Hendricks ; introductions by Cary Nelson.
Contributors: Nelson, Cary.; Hendricks, Jefferson, 1953-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
Subjects: Spain. -- Ejército Popular de la República. -- Brigada Internacional, XV.; Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Personal narratives, American.
Description: These letters will lift your spirit and break your heart. They will take you back to a time when 2,800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts, and Franco's fascist cavalry on the battlefields of Spain.

Here are the actual letters that Abraham Lincoln Brigade members wrote home from 1936 to 1939. Here are accounts of their combat experiences, the love letters they wrote under fire, tales of the friendships they formed among themselves and with their Spanish comrades, and their reports of history's first saturation bombing of civilian targets in Madrid and Barcelona.

It was the eve of World War II, and these men and women saw clearly the danger the world was facing. Now, both those who died and those who lived tell us their stories for the first time.
Notes: Includes index.