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Hi Joe,
I read about the Stanton book in some articles in the jewish world review in internet, which I read regularly.

All my admiration for the americans who came to Spain thinking they were fighting for democracy, naive as they were. Less admiration for those who came to fight for communism ...

Pat,
Just to correct the assumption Spain only knew Democracy when the "Segunda República" arrived. Spain had known Democracy, of a kind, of course,with all the limitations of the time,not very dissimilar to other monarchist democracies in Europe intermitently during the XIXth century.There was the ...

Pat,
While I agree with much you say, I find much more could be added:(I don´t want to give the impression I like Franco, simply that most of his ennemies were in many ways worse, specially the Anarchists, socialists and communists).
Preston is in my opinion still very partial to the left.Stanley ...

Pat
In Franco´s Spain (1937) is partial, but realistic and not overloaded with propaganda, not more than many who wrote biased for the Republican side: Koestler, Orwell,hemingway.
Not a lot of war drama in it, but the miseries of living in cold premises behind the lines in Salamanca and Burgos.
Of ...

I would like to get more information on the life of Captain Francis McCullagh, born in Dungannon Ireland and died in New york in 1956. He wrote "In Francós Spain" during the Spanish civil war. It was published in 1937. He also wrote a book about the cossacks and the bolshevist revolution.
Juan Campos