Giles Tremlett - The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES

ALSO BY GILES TREMLETT

Ghosts of Spain

Catherine of Aragon

Isabella of Castile

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Image credits: Farewell parade for the International Brigades, Barcelona, 28 October 1938, by Robert Capa International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

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For my mother, Berenice Tremlett,
and dedicated to the memory of my father, Edward Tremlett

Contents

COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN

In 1936, many of todays countries were colonies or part of larger sovereign entities. Volunteers in the International Brigades came from some four-fifths of the fewer than eighty sovereign countries and dominions then in existence. It is impossible to calculate how many non-sovereign countries, colonies and other territories were represented, but there were at least twenty-five.

SOVEREIGN NATIONS AND DOMINIONS