Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Portmanteau Words -- Introduction: The Spanish Republicans in Their Defeat -- 1. The Communists in Isolation -- 2. In the Shadow of the Pact -- 3. Arrival in Russia and America -- 4. In the Hands of the Nazis -- 5. Birth of the Spanish Resistance in France -- 6. Mauthausen, Subsidiary of Hell -- 7. In Russia, from Honeymoon to Holy War -- 8. In France, Inside the Two Camps -- 9. War to the Knife -- 10. The Liberation of the South-West -- 11. Survival and Liberation at Mauthausen -- Epilogue: Rendezvous in Toulouse -- A Glossary of the Principal Spanish Characters
Summary
The story of the thousands of communists exiled from Spain after Franco's victory in the Spanish civil war. Disciplined and dedicated to Stalin's cause, they threw themselves into the struggle against fascism in Europe in the Second World War
