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Chargement... Kiwi Companeros: New Zealand and the Spanish Civil Warpar Mark Derby, Peter Clayworth (Contributeur), Rosamunda Droescher (Contributeur), Lawrence Jones (Contributeur), Judith Keene (Contributeur) — 9 plus, Malcolm McKinnon (Contributeur), James McNeish (Contributeur), Michael O'Shaughnessy (Contributeur), Dean Parker (Contributeur), Nicholas Reid (Contributeur), Anna Rogers (Contributeur), John Shennan (Contributeur), Susan Skudder (Contributeur), Kerry Taylor (Contributeur)
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Seventy years after Franco’s triumph, the Spanish Civil War continues to fascinate some of us. The launch parties held in New Zealand’s major centres for Mark Derby’s Kiwi Compañeros have attracted enthusiastic and diverse audiences. Elderly men and women who read about the Battle of Jarama and the fall of Madrid in the newspapers have mingled with those who were not even born when Franco died. But if the conflict in Spain fascinates younger generations, it does so for reasons that the volunteers of 1937 would struggle to understand. In an era characterised, in the West at least, by political apathy and the absence of any apparent alternative to the economic and social status quo, the conflict in Spain seems like a remarkable historical oddity. Contemporary pessimism about the whole notion of human progress contrasts dramatically with the excited idealism of the volunteers Auden celebrated. The cynical, shifting justifications for recent wars in the Middle East seem light years from the passionate ideological justifications for the war in Spain. The great struggle in Spain fascinated Auden and millions of other non-Spaniards because it seemed so urgently relevant to their circumstances; today, the conflict fascinates some of us precisely because of its distance from our experiences....
Drawing on recently released military documents and previously unpublished photographs, this enthralling record is the first-ever account of New Zealand’s role in the Spanish civil war that lasted from 1936 through 1939. Volunteers from more than 50 countries took sides, including New Zealanders who worked for the Spanish cause both abroad and at home. With contributions from some of New Zealand’s leading writers and historians, this volume tells the all-but-forgotten stories of the remarkable heroes who chose to enter into a crucial conflict that became a ruthless rehearsal for World War II. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)946.081History and Geography Europe Spain and Iberian Peninsula Spain Second Republic; Dictatorship; Juan Carlos I; Felipe VI 1931- Second Republic; Spanish Civil WarClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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