The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of international volunteers dedicated to defeating Franco's forces. Fisher was one of the earliest American volunteers and one of the few to participate in all the major battles. Under a barrage of shells, bombs, and bullets for eighteen months, he lost his illusions ...
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The Spanish Civil War served as an ideological and physical battleground for visionary Americans wishing to combat the spread of fascism. Harry Fisher was one such idealist who became a solider in the famed Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the American contingent of international volunteers dedicated to defeating Franco's forces. Fisher was one of the earliest American volunteers and one of the few to participate in all the major battles. Under a barrage of shells, bombs, and bullets for eighteen months, he lost his illusions about war's efficacy in solving political issues. To this day a despondence often overwhelms him when he recalls a family photograph he found jutting from the pocket of a slain fascist soldier. His involvement taught him that up close, the dead, whether fascist soldiers or his own fallen comrades, looked alike. This is a war story, simply told. Yet it is also a complex story about a young man testing his ideology in the harsh realities of battle.
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It is hard to imagine how so many men in the late 1930s were motivated by their Communist indoctrination to go to Spain and fight on the Loyalist side. This author, as a young Jewish labor agitator, did that. There is no romance about his action. He is no Robert Jordan of "For Whom the Bell Tolls". His is a rather uninteresting story about a very interesting subject. He was a dedicated Communist revolutionary. If he is still alive, I'm certain that he voted for Obama, holds George Bush responsible for 9/11, and believes in "global warming". His loyalty to communism is of the type that betrayed France in 1940 (when Hitler and Stalin were allies). I just don't understand those kind of people. I wouldn't waste your time reading this book. I have already discarded it.
