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Harry Fisher - Comrades, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

Comrades

Av Harry Fisher

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The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of international volunteers dedicated to defeating Franco's forces. Fisher was one of the earliest American volunteers and one of the few to participate in all the major battles. Under a barrage of shells, bombs, and bullets for eighteen months, he lost his illusions about war's efficacy in solving political issues. To this day a despondence often overwhelms him when he recalls a family photograph he found jutting from the pocket of a slain fascist soldier. His involvement taught him that up close, the dead, whether fascist soldiers or his own fallen comrades, looked alike. This is a war story, simply told. Yet it is also a complex story about a young man testing his ideology in the harsh realities of battle.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1998-09-01
  • Mått: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
  • Vikt: 666 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Förlag: University of Nebraska Press
  • Medarbetare: Pete Seeger
  • ISBN: 9780803220065
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Harry Fisher has been a department store worker, a seaman, a labor activist, and an engineer gunner on a B-26. For many years he served as chief of communications for the TASS news agency in New York City.

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"Sometimes heart-warming, at other times heart-breaking, yet always honest, [Harry Fisher's] experiences as a soldier in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade are a moving and frequently shocking testimony to the harsh and brutal realities of this terrible war. Beautifully and simply told ... "--" "British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, April 2000 " "As Seegar and others in this well-written and powerful book describe the appeasement and surreptitious support of fascism by the British and US ruling-classes, it is impossible to avoid the comparisons with today.--Morning Star, 5 February 2001

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