A SPANISH CIVIL WAR SCRAPBOOK: ELIZABETH PEARL BICKERSTAFFE'S NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS OF THE WARS IN SPAIN AND CHINA FROM AUGUST 1939 TO MAY 1939

JUMP, Jim (Editor), Paul Preston (Intro.), Rodney Bickerstaffe ( Foreword)

ISBN 10: 1909831980 / ISBN 13: 9781909831988

Edité par International Brigae Memorial Trust And Lawrence & Wishart London, 2015

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4to. Pp: 204. ISBN: 9781909831988. Paperback with stiff card covers. Inscribed to London's Gay Hussar restaurant and the manager John by compiler's son and foreword author. Scrapbook facsimile. Good. Some creasing to spine, with rubbing and fading to top and bottom of card covers and spine edges. A series of pen lines and small (coffee?) stain to edge of paper block, but the later only effects 1mm or so of p.167-180, otherwise contents very good.

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• Titre: A SPANISH CIVIL WAR SCRAPBOOK: ELIZABETH PEARL BICKERSTAFFE'S NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS OF THE WARS IN SPAIN AND CHINA FROM AUGUST 1939 TO MAY 1939
• Éditeur: International Brigae Memorial Trust And Lawrence & Wishart London
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1909831980
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781909831988
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: Edition originale
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

Introduction by Paul Preston with a foreword by Rodney Bickerstaffe This scrapbook, kept by a 17-year-old children's nurse in South Yorkshire, offers an insight into the political and emotional impact that the Spanish Civil War had on a generation who lived through the agonising defeat of the Spanish Republic. Elizabeth Pearl Bickerstaffe's cuttings reveal the extent of human suffering in the war in Spain - and likewise in China - in which civilians were the main casualties. They also tell of the vain efforts in Britain and by the International Brigade volunteers in Spain itself to prevent this latest triumph for the fascist powers in Europe. And we sense the fierce commitment to the cause of the Spanish Republic felt by the newspaper correspondents and photographers who witnessed this unfolding tragedy. The role of the foreign correspondents in Spain is discussed in an introduction by Paul Preston, the foremost historian of the Spanish Civil War. In his foreword, Rodney Bickerstaffe underlines the important part played both by the events in Spain and by his mother's scrapbook in shaping his political values. This point is amplified in Jim Jump's preface explaining more about the creation, context and consequences of Pearl Bickerstaffe's compelling scrapbook of one of the major episodes in twentieth-century history.