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Not for King or country : Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War

Tyler Wentzell (Author)
"Nearly 1700 Canadians volunteered to fight in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, yet there is not a single biography of a Canadian participant. Little is written about the Canadian volunteers, there are only 4 non fiction books and Michael Petrou's "Renegades" is scholarly. Edward Cecil-Smith, the commander of the ostensibly Canadian Mackenzie Papineau Battalian provides not only a case study of these volunteers, but a dramatic depiction of life in Canada during the 1930s."-- Provided by publisher

eBook, English, 2019
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019