Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade From the Spanish Civil War PDF
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TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk MADRID 1937 Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade From the Spanish Civil War Edited by Cary Nelson & Jefferson Hendricks Introductions by Cary Nelson Routledge Taylor & Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK First Published in 1996 by Routledge Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright© 1996 by Routledge All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN 978-0-415-91408-6 (hbk) CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................... vii INTRODUCTION I Dreamed I Sang "The Internationale" to Adolf Hitler .................. 1 CHRONOLOGY ...................... ; ............. 23 1 WHYWEWENT The Crusade Against Fascism ................................... 29 11 JOURNEY TO SPAIN The Perils of a Sieeping World .................................. 49 111 JARAMA The Fog of War ............................................. 81 IV IN SPANISH TOWNS AND CITIES Solidarity with a People at War ................................. 99 V IN TRAINING AND IN RESERVE Morale and the Arts of War ................................... 141 VI INBATTLE Fram the Plains of Brunete to Fuentes de Ebro ...................... 181 VII THE MEDICAL SERVICES Making History and Saving Lives ............................... 233 VIII MADRID The Heart of the World ...................................... 279 IX POLITICS Reading the 1930s ......................................... 307 X THE REGIMENT DE TREN Transportation Under Fire .................................... 333 XI IN BATTLE From the Snows of Teruel to the Great Retreats ..................... 359 v XII IN TRAINING AGAIN Rebuilding aBatlaIion ....................................... 385 XIII TUE LAST CAMPAIGN Across the Ebro River. ....................................... 399 XIV BARCELONA Assault from the Air ........................................ 417 xv ON TUE WAY UOME The Trials of a Legend-to-Be ................................... 451 AFTERWORD ..................................... 481 INDEX .............................................. 485 GLOSSARY ........................................ 487 vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project has been under way for more than six years and we have had help from a considerable number of people. Our first thanks must go to the üncoln vet erans and their family members who trusted us with their letters and their memo ries. The veterans in the New York office-particularly Moe Fishman and Len Levenson-have lent their boundless energy and long experience to our efforts for years. At no time, however, did they demand to see the manuscript we were work ing on or place any restrictions on the material we used. Several other üncoln vets gave critical assistance at key moments, including Steve Nelson, Bob Reed, Abe Smorodin, Bill Susman, and Milt Wolff. Several, including Harry Fisher, Moe Fishman, Len Levenson, and Mary Rolfe, talked with us repeatedly about the 1930s and generously supplied us with archival materials ab out the Spanish Civil War. Mary Rolfe, Bill Sennett, and Sam Walters sent us thick packets of photographs and answered numerous queries about them. Other photographs came from David Friedman, Herb Freeman, Len Levenson, Mary Rolfe, and Lee Rosetti. We give special thanks to those who sent us letters and/or gave permission to publish them: Al Amery, Mary Baranger, Vita Barsky, Leona Beal, Hon Brown, Julie Carran, ülian Chodorow, Dan Czitrom, Milt Felsen, Moe Fishman, Harry Fisher, Herb Freeman, Miriam Friedlander, David Friedman, Carl Geiser, Lottie Gordon, Toby Jensky, Clarence Kailin, Sidney Kaufman, Freddy Keller, Len Levenson, Christine MacLeod, Virginia Malbin, Carl Marzani, Ben Minor, Luba Nusser, Mary Rolfe, Lee Rosetti, Adolph Ross, Hank Rubin, Ely Sack, Bill Sennett, John L. Simon, Jeanette Smith, Jenness Summers, Mildred Thayer, May Tisa, Sam Walters, Ted Veltfort, Jeffrey R Wachtel, Marge Watt, Milton Wolff. The following list gives the present location of the letters we have used in the book: ALBA (Abraham üncoln Brigade Archives), Brandeis University: Alex (Chapter 11), Joe Dallet, Canute Frankson, Harry Fisher, Carl Geiser, Toby Jensky, Hyman Katz, James Lardner, Fredericka Martin, Harry Meloff, Dewitt Parker, Ely Sack, Paul Sigel, Harold Smith, Paul Wendorf. Adelphi University: Sandor Voros. Voros's letters are published here with the permission of Erica Doctorow, Director of the Special Collections übrary at Adelphi. Ernest Hemingway Archives, Kennedy übrary (Boston): Evan Shipman. University of California at Berkeley: Clifton Amsbury, Cecil Cole, George Foucek, Ben Gardner, Donald MacLeod, William Sennett, Eugene Wolman. Columbia University: Edward Barsky, Ave Bruzzichesi, Leo Eloesser, Rose Freed, üni Fuhr, Martin Hourihan, Fred Keller, Mildred Rackley, Ann Taft. Stanford University, Lane Medical übrary: Leo Eloesser. Eloesser's vii
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