Research Catalog

Title

The aura of the cause : a photo album for North American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War / by Cary Nelson.

Author

Nelson, Cary

Publication

Waltham, Mass. : Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, c1997.

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Details

Description

201 p. : ill.; 22 x 28 cm.

Summary

"The Aura of the Cause ... aims to honor the volunteers who took up arms against fascism in the great cause of the 1930s. It also offers the most detailed photographic record to date of their experience in Spain."--Preface.

Subject

• International Brigade. Abraham Lincoln Battalion
• Spain. Army. Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion
• 1936-1939
• Spain > History > Pictorial works. > Civil War, 1936-1939
• Spain > History > Participation, Foreign. > Civil War, 1936-1939

Genre/Form

• History
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 44).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

First love / Edwin Rolfe -- Preface -- To the international brigades / Rafael Alberti -- Introduction : the Spanish Civil War / Cary Nelson -- Map and chronology -- The aura of the cause : photographs from the Spanish Civil War / Cary Nelson -- A photo album for the international brigades. In Spanish villages : the people they came to protect ; In training and at rest : daily life in the international brigades ; From fifty-two countries : the face of the international volunteer ; Group portraits : commemorating collective identities ; Toward combat : Brunete's summer cauldron and Teruel's frigid winter -- Remembering Robert Capa / Edwin Rolfe -- Letters from Spain : American volunteers writing home -- On the American dead in Spain / Ernest Hemingway -- Farewell speech to the international brigades / Dolores Ibarruri.

ISBN

• 0252066804 (pbk.)
• 0252023773 (cloth)

OCLC

• 37347829
• SCSB-11512998

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library