'A drawing or a painting is a soul's message eagerly sought by us watchful onlookers', Robert Coles observes in his foreword to this striking volume. 'The point is to demonstrate what has been imagined, or yes, witnessed ...[and] for us to be shown something by certain boys and girls who become our [...]

This history of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade relates the story of the 2,800 young Americans who volunteered to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco's rebellion of 1936 - and what became of them after Spain. Although the central event of their lives was a war they lost, they are viewed less in t[...]