Review by Theresa Wolfwood
“We were the direct casualties of the “Non-Intervention Pact, “which was the most open and cynical betrayal of a nation in all of history.”
When I took recent visitors from Europe to see the memorial to the Canadians of the Mac-Pap (Mackenzie–Papineau battalion) who fought in the Spanish Civil War, they were amazed. Why would anyone travel from Canada to voluntarily fight in someone else’s civil war?
This book is one Canadian’s story of why approximately 1600 (1200 in the Mac-Pap by most estimates; Read more [...] Category Archives: Ronald Liversedge
Liversedge Ronald. Mac-Pap: Memoir of a Canadian in the Spanish Civil War 2013. edited by David Yorke New Star Books, Vancouver, BC. . ISBN: 9781554200719
Review by Theresa Wolfwood
“We were the direct casualties of the “Non-Intervention Pact, “which was the most open and cynical betrayal of a nation in all of history.”
When I took recent visitors from Europe to see the memorial to the Canadians of the Mac-Pap (Mackenzie–Papineau battalion) who fought in the Spanish Civil War, they were amazed. Why would anyone travel from Canada to voluntarily fight in someone else’s civil war?
This book is one Canadian’s story of why approximately 1600 (1200 in the Mac-Pap by most estimates; Read more [...] Comments Off on Liversedge Ronald. Mac-Pap: Memoir of a Canadian in the Spanish Civil War 2013. edited by David Yorke New Star Books, Vancouver, BC. . ISBN: 9781554200719
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