Our Fathers Fought Franco
Published on 4. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-80425-040-2 (ISBN)
Description
James Maley, George Watters, Donald Renton and Archibald Williams were members of Machine Gun Company No. 2 of the XV International Brigade. This is the first book to focus on a small group of men from different starting-points, ended up in the same battleground at Jarama, and then in the same prisons after capture by
Franco's forces.
Their remarkable story is told both in their own words and in the recollections of their sons and daughters, through a prison notebook, newspaper reports, stills cut from newsreels, interviews, anecdotes and memories, with a foreword by Daniel Gray.
Our Fathers Fought Franco is a collective biography that promises to add significantly to the understanding of the motives of those who 'went because their open eyes could see no other way'.
Franco's forces.
Their remarkable story is told both in their own words and in the recollections of their sons and daughters, through a prison notebook, newspaper reports, stills cut from newsreels, interviews, anecdotes and memories, with a foreword by Daniel Gray.
Our Fathers Fought Franco is a collective biography that promises to add significantly to the understanding of the motives of those who 'went because their open eyes could see no other way'.
Reviews / Votes
This wonderful and moving book adds something completely original to the Spanish Civil War narrative. - DANIEL GRAY, from the forewordAn extraordinary example, and an unforgettable, essential book. - ANGUS REID, The Morning Star
Such openness connects us readers to the vulnerabilities of a family, life in all its complexity and difficulty. This is a virtue of all four accounts in Our Fathers Fought Franco... What comes through persistently in 'Our Fathers Fought Franco' is a sense of how much we have to learn from the past. - ALAN RIACH, The National
?Part first-person history, part war memoir, part working-class polemic, it is a valuable addition to the canon. - RB, The Scottish Field
?Too often their experiences went unrecorded. - THE PENNILESS PRESS
?Each of the authors calls us to read the signs for our own times in the legacy of these men of the IB. This book is a fine tribute to them and their comrades. - LESLEY ORR, Bella Caledonia
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
332 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80425-040-2 (9781804250402)
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WILLY MALEY is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow, Fellow of the English Association (FEA), and founder, with Philip Hobsbaum, of Glasgow's Creative Writing programme. His father James Maley was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
TAM WATTERS is the son of George Watters.
JENNIE RENTON is the daughter of Donald Renton.
ROSEMARY WILLIAMS is the daughter of Archibald Williams.
TAM WATTERS is the son of George Watters.
JENNIE RENTON is the daughter of Donald Renton.
ROSEMARY WILLIAMS is the daughter of Archibald Williams.