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Spanish civil war call of duty12/26/2023 People who didn’t know anything about the war tell me they’ve been able to begin to understand it, though not in a heavy historical way, so that’s good.” “Then I decided to try to reach a wider audience with a novel. In 2005, she published Beyond the Battlefield: Testimony, Memory and Remembrance of a Cave Hospital in the Spanish Civil War. It’s inspirational to meet elderly people with strong opinions about things going on now, not just the Civil War.”Īfter that book, she came to Catalunya to write about a Republican army field hospital set up in a cave near La Bisbal de Falset. “It was very interesting to meet the people from those years, the Thirties, because they still felt so strongly about things. I was, fortunately, just in time, while they were still alive. “I was studying the Civil War and found out there were still some people from the International Brigade alive. “I was a mature student, very mature,” she chuckled. She first used their experiences to write a PhD thesis in Spanish History at Essex University, subsequently published as a book, British Women and the Spanish Civil War (Routledge, 2002). When Angela Jackson first began interviewing British women who came to Spain and Catalunya to serve as nurses during the Spanish Civil War she was bowled over by their stories.
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