English Captain
By (Author) Thomas Wintringham
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
21st July 2011
Main
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Civil wars
Modern warfare
European history
946.081092
Paperback
158
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 12mm
182g
Barcelona is colour, noise, heat, dust, violent traffic and quick-moving people. Many of the men carry rifles slung on their backs. International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and commander of the British Battalion in the bloody Battle of Jarama in February 1937, at which he was wounded. English Captain is Wintringham's own startling account of his service to the cause of the Spanish republic. poet, a brilliant propagandist He was also a man of action who believed that few things in life could be achieved unless you were prepared to fight for them. Hugh Purcell, History Today
