1. Lincoln Brigaders: Firsthand Accounts of French Camps, 1939.
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Coale, Robert S.
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FOREIGN enlistment , *AMERICANS , *REFUGEE camps , *POLITICAL refugees -- History , *BOMBARDMENT of Barcelona, Spain, 1937-1939 , *SPANISH Civil War, 1936-1939 , *FRENCH Third Republic , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY ,INTERNATIONAL brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 ,PRISONERS & prisons - Abstract
About 2,800 volunteers of the American contingent of the International Brigades, generally known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, served in Spain from 1937 to 1939. After the fall of Barcelona at the end of January 1939 many ended up in French refugee camps. This article draws on first-hand eye-witness accounts to paint a picture not only of the withdrawal from Spain after the fall of Barcelona in January 1939 but also of conditions within the camps in France. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2014
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