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After the Spanish Civil War was lost, around half a million Republican loyalists fled across the border into France, where they were herded into concentration camps. Frida Stewart-who, during the civil war, had driven an ambulance to Spain and assisted in the evacuation of thousands of Basque children-went to France to help the refugees. When the Germans invaded, she was arrested and sent to internment camps, from where she escaped back to Eng...

Frida Stewart (m. Knight) wrote Firing a Shot for Freedom in the 1940s when her experiences in Spain's civil war and passionate belief in the Republican cause were very recent memories, fresh with hope, raw with regret. Vividly capturing the spirit of the times in each chapter, her escape from an internment camp in France during the Second World War, helped by the French Resistance, is described with a particularly tense detailed recall.Frida'...