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1st ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 245 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Singular lives
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Singular lives.
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| Summary |
In 1937 thirty-six nervous young men dressed in ill-fitting blue suits, wearing berets, and carrying identical black valises, were given tickets for an American Export Lines ship. They were told to conduct themselves as ordinary tourists, to be "inconspicuous." They were volunteers for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, traveling the French underground to join in the fight against Franco. Among them was Milt Felsen, a young New Yorker and radical antiwar activist on the University of Iowa campus who had decided that fascism had to be opposed. Some of these young men never made it to their destination. But Milt Felsen did, beginning a march across the Pyrenees which was only the first of his many battles and adventures. Told with uncommon wit and verve, this memoir of war and resistance is a stirring account of Felsen's involvement in two decades of battle. Surprisingly, this is a spirited and even funny book, infused with Felsen's unbeatable personality. After the Spanish Civil War, Felsen helped form the O.S.S. in World War II. Taken prisoner of war, he escaped in his inimitable style during a 1,200-mile prisoner-of-war march and drove out of Nazi Germany in a Mercedes-Benz. He returned to the United States more convinced than ever of war's insanity and its extreme human cost. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Felsen, Milt, 1912-2005.
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Felsen, Milt, 1912-2005. |
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Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion -- Biography.
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Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Felsen, Milt, 1912- |
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Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Abraham Lincoln Battalion. |
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Spanish Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, American.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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| Genre/Form |
Personal narratives -- American.
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| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, American.
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Soldiers -- Spain -- Biography.
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Soldiers. |
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Spain. |
| Chronological Term |
1936 - 1945 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Felsen, Milt, 1912- Anti-warrior. 1st ed. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1989 0877452415 (DLC) 88030301 (OCoLC)18682739 |
| ISBN |
1587290618 (electronic book) |
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9781587290619 (electronic book) |
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0877452415 (paperback) |
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9780877452416 (paperback) |
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0877452229 (hardcover) |
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9780877452225 (hardcover) |
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