Title The anti-warrior : a memoir / by Milt Felsen ; introduction by Albert E. Stone

Edition 1st ed Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 245 pages) : illustrations Series Singular lives Singular lives. Summary In 1937 thirty-six nervous young men dressed in ill-fitting blue suits, wearing berets, and carrying identical black valises, were given tickets for an American Export Lines ship. They were told to conduct themselves as ordinary tourists, to be "inconspicuous." They were volunteers for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, traveling the French underground to join in the fight against Franco. Among them was Milt Felsen, a young New Yorker and radical antiwar activist on the University of Iowa campus who had decided that fascism had to be opposed. Some of these young men never made it to their destination. But Milt Felsen did, beginning a march across the Pyrenees which was only the first of his many battles and adventures. Told with uncommon wit and verve, this memoir of war and resistance is a stirring account of Felsen's involvement in two decades of battle. Surprisingly, this is a spirited and even funny book, infused with Felsen's unbeatable personality. After the Spanish Civil War, Felsen helped form the O.S.S. in World War II. Taken prisoner of war, he escaped in his inimitable style during a 1,200-mile prisoner-of-war march and drove out of Nazi Germany in a Mercedes-Benz. He returned to the United States more convinced than ever of war's insanity and its extreme human cost Notes Print version record Subject Felsen, Milt, 1912-2005. SUBJECT Felsen, Milt, 1912-2005 fast Subject Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion -- Biography SUBJECT Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion fast Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American Soldiers -- Spain -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- Military -- World War II. Military participation -- American Soldiers SUBJECT Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Personal narratives, American Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, American Subject Spain Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Personal narratives Autobiographies Biographies History Personal narratives Autobiographies. Biographies. Personal narratives. Autobiographies. Biographies. Récits personnels. Form Electronic book ISBN 1587290618 9781587290619 0877452415 9780877452416 0877452229 9780877452225

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