Title: Comrades
First published: 1998
Description: The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a soldier in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of international volunteers dedicated to defeating Franco's forces.

Fisher was one of the earliest American volunteers and one of the few to participate in all the major battles. Under a barrage of shells, bombs, and bullets for eighteen months, he lost his illusions about war's efficacy in solving political issues. To this day a despondence often overwhelms him when he recalls a family photograph he found jutting from the pocket of a slain fascist soldier.

His involvement taught him that up close the dead, whether fascist soldiers or his own fallen comrades, looked alike.
Subjects: American Personal narratives, Americans, Biography, History, Soldiers, Spain, Spain Civil War, 1936-1939, Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion, Spain, history, civil war, 1936-1939, Spain, history, civil war, 1936-1939, personal narratives, Americans, foreign countries, Erlebnisbericht, Spanischer Bürgerkrieg, Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV, Spanish Civil War, Personal narratives
Places: Spain
People: Harry Fisher (1911-)
Time periods: Civil War, 1936-1939, 1936-1939
LC classification: DP269.47.A46 F58 1998