Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade From the Spanish Civil War

535 Pages·2014·23.387 MB·English

by  Hendricks, Jefferson;Nelson, Cary

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MADRID 1937
Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
From the Spanish Civil War
Edited by Cary Nelson &
Jefferson Hendricks
Introductions by
Cary Nelson
Routledge
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LONDON AND NEW YORK
First Published in 1996 by
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Published 2013 by
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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
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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
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XII IN TRAINING AGAIN
Rebuilding aBatlaIion ....................................... 385
XIII TUE LAST CAMPAIGN
Across the Ebro River. ....................................... 399
XIV BARCELONA
Assault from the Air ........................................ 417
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ON TUE WAY UOME
The Trials of a Legend-to-Be ................................... 451
AFTERWORD ..................................... 481
INDEX .............................................. 485
GLOSSARY ........................................ 487
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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
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