Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War (Studies in Canadian Military History) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Petrou
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 282
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0774814179
Dewey Decimal Number: 946.081
EAN: 9780774814171
ASIN: 0774814179
Publication Date: March 30, 2008
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Between 1936 and 1939, 1,700 Canadians defied their government and volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. They chose to leave behind punishing lives in Canadian relief camps, mines, and urban flophouses to confront fascism in a country few knew much about. Four hundred died there. Michael Petrou has drawn on recently declassified archival material, interviewed surviving Canadian veterans, and has visited the battlefields of Spain to write the definitive acccount of Canadians in the Spanish Civil War. It reveals who these men and women were, why they volunteered, how they lived and died in Spain, and how the Canadian government and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police reacted to their decision to illegally join another country's war. Renegades is a groundbreaking, intimate, and unflinching story of idealism and courage, duplicity and defeat. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of Canada, the Spanish Civil War, and the struggle between democracy and totalitarianism in the 1930's.
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