We're Going On!: The Collected Poems of Tom Wintringham - Couverture souple

Purcell, Hugh; Wintringham, Tom

 
9780955106101: We're Going On!: The Collected Poems of Tom Wintringham
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0955106109 ISBN 13 : 9780955106101
Editeur : Smokestack Books, 2006

Synopsis

Tom Wintringham (1898-1949) was a man of action, a revolutionary, a soldier and a poet. During the First World War he served in the Royal Flying Corps ; in the Spanish Civil War he commanded the British Battalion of the International Brigade ; in the Second World War he was the driving force and inspiration behind the establishment of the Home Guard. He was a founder member of the Communist Party, and one of the twelve Communist leaders gaoled for sedition in 1925. He edited the Worker s Weekly, helped launch the Daily Worker and was one of the first editors of Left Review. Expelled in 1938 from the Communist Party, Wintringham co-founded the Commonwealth Party and almost won a famous war-time by-election. His poetry was published in many magazines, and his numerous books included The Coming World War, Mutiny, English Captain, The Politics of Victory, People s War and the best-selling Your M.P. Drawing on the newly opened Wintringham archive, this book contains nearly all Tom Wintringham s poems, many of which are published here for the first time. From the Great War and the October Revolution, via the General Strike to Spain and war against Hitler, Wintringham s poems are a unique record of those revolutionary years, a compelling cocktail of ideas and imagination, romance, realism and action.

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À propos de l'auteur

Editor Hugh Purcell worked for many years as a producer for BBC radio and television. Credits include The Road to War and the BAFTA-winning American Civil War. His previous books include Fascism, The Spanish Civil War, Revolutionary War and a biography of Tom Wintringham, The Last English Revolutionary. He is a Chevalier de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

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Éditeur
Smokestack Books
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0955106109
ISBN 13 
9780955106101
Reliure
Poche
Nombre de pages
94
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Personne responsable
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