Volunteer for Liberty 1

Editorial from the Abraham Lincoln Batallion newsletter “The Volunteer for liberty”.

The text reads: “American and British volunteers, learn Spanish! […] It is our anti-fascist duty”.

Published February 1938 in Barcelona

Volunteer for Liberty 2

Front page of Abraham Lincoln Battalion newsletter “Volunteer for Liberty“.

Left “Anglo-American Section of Anti-fascist Club formed in Barcelona”. Right sadly very doubtful figures (I don’t actually know) on Republican and enemy air losses. February 1938, Barcelona.

Thanks to @pdlhistoria

American brigader Alvah Bessie at Darmós, Southern Catalonia, April 1938. In his right pocket is one of his field notebooks, later collected in his “Spanish Civil War Notebooks” Vivid, immediate descriptions which I really enjoyed ( and later the basis for his famous Men in Battle)