In the summer of 1936, Generalissimo Francisco Franco led a group of right-wing nationalists in a military attack on the Republican government of Spain - the start of what would become the Spanish Civil War. Despite U.S. laws banning participation in foreign conflicts, American volunteers began pouring into Barcelona in January 1937. The most ...
Cecil Eby has edited the diaries of David Hunter Strother, to produce this work about Strother's three years in the Union army. As a Virginian opposed to secession, Strother joined as a civilian topographer, and was soon commissioned, eventually rising to the rank of brigadier general.
Hungary's place in World War II was been poorly documented because until recently any histories of the war years had to conform to Communist Party line. Originally allied with Germany to defend itself against Bolshevism, Hungary saw its army innihilated in 1943 and was subsequently invaded - and occupied - by the Soviets. Now fifty years after the ...
The Lost Generation has held the imagination of those who succeeded them, partly because the idea that modern war could be romantic, generous, and noble died with the casualties of that war. From this remove, it seems almost perverse that Britons, Germans, and Frenchmen of every social class eagerly rushed to the fields of Flanders and to misery ...
In Hungary at War, Cecil Eby has compiled a historical chronicle of Hungary's wartime experiences based on interviews with nearly a hundred people who lived through those years. Here are officers and common soldiers, Jewish survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, pilots of the Royal Hungarian Air Force, Hungarian prisoners of ...
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