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Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)

by James K. Hopkins (Author)
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  • Paperback: 500 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press (1 Aug 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0804731276
  • ISBN-13: 978-0804731270
  • Product Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 663,075 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Hopkins has written a sympathetic and stimulating account of these men and women, their backgrounds, motives, and the fierce battles in which they fought. ... Highly recommended for all academic libraries.' Choice

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This book provides a compelling and vivid account of British involvement in the Spanish Civil War, examining the experience of the British volunteers in the International Brigades, and placing them in a broad intellectual, political, social, and cultural framework.Incorporating some familiar and many new voices of a turbulent decade, it analyzes the manner in which British men and women conceptualized their engagement with the political issues of their time whether they were Oxbridge aesthetes or militants from the factories, the mines, and the ranks of the unemployed. The event that galvanized the volunteers and the many thousands who supported them in Great Britain was the rising of General Franco and his allies against the democratically elected Second Spanish Republic on July 17, 1936. As a counterpart to German and Italian intervention on behalf of the insurgents, the Soviet Union instructed the Comintern to recruit and organize an international volunteer army to come to the aid of the Republic.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Book, 5 Jun 2003
This title has the rare quality of being both rigourous and readable. Hopkin's use of archive materal lends a subtantive take on the Spanish War that is powerfully delivered in an economical style of writing that is at times heartwrenching but never strays into the melodramatic; 'Spain is where men learned that men can be right yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense'.
The book essentially falls into two parts, firstly a discussion of the class politics of the UK in the 1930's and then how this translated onto the bloody battlefields of Spain. The former might sound boring but is actually rich and highly rewarding - this is a book that is hard to put down.
I basic knowledge of the Spanish War might be useful before reading this book.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Where men realised that you can be right and be beaten', 9 May 2003
Professor Hopkin's book is an all to rare thing in academia; both rigourus and a joy to read.
If you have already read a concise history of the Spanish War and have found some romantic appeal to the volunteers of the International Brigades and that period in history, then I cannot reccomend this book more highly.
Beautifully written, well researched and of appropriately lengthy yet readable length, anyone with a genuine interest in the area will speed through the pages and come away with something all too rare in Spanish Civil War books: something new.
Whilst sympathetic to the Left and to the Republic and the volunteers who defended her, Hopkins pulls no punches in debunking the myths and inequities of Stalin's influence on the brigade.
Definitely one for any self respecting historian of the 20th century who thinks history is more than just watching a weepy Spielberg film.
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