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Author Thomas, Fred

Title To Tilt at Windmills : a Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
Contents Preface ; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: May-June, 1937. From Hackney to the Jarama Front; Chapter Two: July-November, 1937. The Battle of Brunete; Chapter Three: December 1937-January, 1938. The Battle of Teruel; Chapter Four: February-May, 1938. From Teruel to the Ebro; Chapter Five: June-August, 1938. The Battle of the Ebro I; Chapter Six: September 1938. The Battle of the Ebro II; Chapter Seven: October-December, 1938. Repatriation ; Notes; Index
Summary To Tilt at Windmills is the memoir of Briton Fred Thomas who served with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War (July 1936-March 1939). Inspired by a memorable return to Iberian battlefields forty years later, and based on diaries kept during the many months Thomas spent as a gunner with the British Anti-Tank Battery, the narrative moves eloquently along a journey into the war zone, through the several campaigns in which he fought and where he was twice wounded, and finally to the withdrawal of the Brigades from the conflict. What distinguishes Thomas' a
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Subject Thomas, Fred A
SUBJECT Thomas, Fred A. fast
Subject Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. British Battalion -- Biography
SUBJECT Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. British Battalion fast
Subject British -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
British
Military campaigns
Military participation -- British
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, British
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Campaigns. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126112
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Personal narratives, British
Subject Spain
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780870139598
0870139592