Difference between revisions of "International Brigades"
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==Further reading== | ==Further reading== | ||
*[http://www.unc.edu/~chaos1/intlbrigade.pdf ''Some Men Put Up Their Lives''] | *[http://www.unc.edu/~chaos1/intlbrigade.pdf ''Some Men Put Up Their Lives''] | ||
| + | *[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/history/pdf/chr_vol1.pdf League of Nations Non-intervention Committee ban on "volunteers" 21 February 1937] | ||
[[Category:history]] | [[Category:history]] | ||
Revision as of 01:40, July 17, 2007
The International Brigades were foreign non-national combatants who came to Spain to fight against the Nazi-backed Fascist forces of Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). The Brigades came from fifty countries and were celebrated by many leftist.