Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 : Before Pearl Harbor; Chapter 2 : At War with the Army; Chapter 3 : Problems in Red and Black; Chapter 4 : In the Combat Theaters; Chapter 5 : Premature Antifascists and the Postwar World; Appendix : Biographical Index of Letter Writers; Bibliography; Index; About the Editors
Summary
Written with passion and intelligence, the letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in World War II express the raw idealism of anti-fascist soldiers who experienced the war in boot camps, cockpits, and foxholes, but never lost sight of the great global issues at stake. When the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, only one group of American soldiers had already confronted the fascist enemy on the battlefield: the U.S. veterans of the Lincoln Brigade, a volunteer army of about 2,800 men and women who had enlisted to defend the Spanish Republic from military rebels during the S
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index
