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A young soldier, Gustavo Sintora, arrives in Madrid Franco's rebel forces capture Málaga. He is posted to the Republican army's mobile entertainment unit who are billeted in a mansion on the city's outskirts and put on shows for troops along the front line. There he meets Serena Vergara, a seamstress who is destined to become the love of his life. As the war becomes darker and more intense, Sintora's unit is sent into action on the Ebro front...

First published in 1946, Marguerite Reilly traces the story of an Irish immigrant family across four generations, from the time of the Irish famine up to the second world war, as they struggle to survive and educate their children. A "must read" for anyone with Anglo-Irish heritage. "The book engages the reader's attention from the first page. It is acutely observed and beautifully written" - The Spectator "A formidable piece of characterisat...

Between 1936 and 1939 several thousand men and women from Britain chose to leave the safety of their homes and involve themselves in another country's civil war. The country was Spain, where a military uprising had been launched against the country's Republican government. Most of the British who went to Spain were volunteers for the legendary International Brigades, though others served in other roles, such as medics, journalists or aid work...

The year is 1838. Valentín de Avellaneda has been forced into exile in Uruguay with his wife and son by the blood-thirsty Argentine dictator, General Juan Manuel de Rosas, who has denounced him as a "Unitarian savage". As the fugitive tries to escort his family to a place of safety upriver, Rosas orders his capture and arrest and he is brought back to Buenos Aires, to stand trial as an enemy of the state . . .

The year is 1838. Valentín de Avellaneda has been forced into exile in Uruguay with his wife and son by the brutal Argentine dictator, General Juan Manuel de Rosas, who has denounced him as a "Unitarian savage". As the fugitive tries to reach a place of safety with his family upriver, Rosas orders his capture and arrest and he is brought back to Buenos Aires to stand trial as an enemy of the state . . .

Agnes Hodgson arrived in Barcelona from Sydney in December 1936, towards the start of the Spanish Civil War. She spent the next twelve months as a volunteer nurse at field hospitals in Grañén and Poleñino, close to the Aragón front. Her diary provides a fascinating first-hand account of the political turmoil on the ground and the horrifying impact of the war on her patients. Judith Keene's detailed introduction includes an in-depth analysis of...

In 1939, in the final stages of the Spanish Civil War, Nancy and Archie Johnstone made a desperate dash for the border with the children they had sheltered in their hotel in Tossa de Mar. Once in France the children were interned in a concentration camp. After doing all they could to help, the Johnstones went into exile in Mexico. Sombreros are Becoming, the third volume of Nancy's memoirs, is a light-hearted account of how they rebuilt the...

Cuba's third war of independence had begun in February 1865. The US declared war on Spain in April 1898 and in June the first detachment of the notorious "Rough Riders" landed on Cuban shores. Embedded alongside them were a number of journalists, including thirty-year-old Harrie Irving Hancock. What One Man Saw is a record of his experiences on the island, published later the same year.

David Marshall was born in Middlesbrough in 1916, and volunteered for the International Brigade in Spain in 1936. During his long life he has been a Civil Servant, a Theatre Scenery Builder and Master of the Thames sailing barge "Jock". The poems reflect his reactions to events in his personal life, and to those in the wider world and so provide a commentary on the history of our time.

Bored with life in London, Nancy and Archie Johnstone left their jobs and moved to the Costa Brava in 1934 to build and run their own hotel. It sounded like a recipe for disaster but within twelve months Tossa de Mar became the destination of choice for a vibrant group of international writers and artists. Hotel in Spain is a light-hearted account of their ups and downs before the Civil War erupted and darkness descended.

Esmond Romilly (1918-1941) was Winston Churchill's nephew and even rumoured to be his illegitimate son. Already notorious as a teenage runaway from Wellington College, Romilly was among the first British volunteers to join the International Brigade in Spain, cycling across France to fight on the side of the Spanish Republic against Franco's insurrection. He saw intensive front line action in defence of Madrid, culminating in the battle of Boad...

Hotel in Flight is the second volume of Nancy Johnstone's autobiographical accounts. As described in Hotel in Spain, in 1934 she and her husband Archie moved to the Costa Brava to build and run their own hotel. Two years later, in July 1936, Civil War erupts in Spain and throws the country into turmoil. Declining an offer of 'rescue' by the Royal Navy, Nancy and her husband Archie convert their hotel into a refuge for children displaced by the...

First published in 1936, Behind the Spanish Barricades chronicles the early months of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of John Langdon-Davies, a seasoned journalist who was already well acquainted with Spanish and Catalan cultures. Having crossed the border on a second-hand motorbike, he experiences the exuberant atmosphere in Barcelona during its short-lived proletarian revolution. He also witnesses the horrors of war as he visits Toled...

Born in Buenos Aires in 1819, Juana Manso de Noronha was a writer, journalist, newspaper editor, educational reformer and campaigner for women's rights. In 1840 she was forced into exile in Uruguay with her family by the dictator, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and in subsequent years she travelled extensively throughout the Americas, notable to Brazil, Cuba and the United States. She returned to Argentina in 1853, following the demise of the dictators...

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...

When Daniel spurns the priesthood after seven years secluded in a Spanish seminary, his sister makes him a generous gift: enough money to fund him for a year so he can explore the world and discover himself. After some months, he joins the crew of a small sailing boat. They run into a violent storm and Daniel is washed up on an island shrouded in fog, apparently all alone . . .

Between 1936 and 1939, some 2, 500 men and women from Britain and Ireland volunteered to support the Spanish Republic in its fight against the fascist insurrection in Spain. Around 40 of them had strong connections with Hampshire. Alan Lloyd has painstakingly researched their stories to provide this record of their contribution as soldiers, nurses, doctors and pilots.

In 1825 Captain Francis Bond Head retired from the army to take up a post with a mining company to survey and report on mining opportunities in Chile and Argentina. This mission earned him the nickname "Galloping Head" as a result of his travels back and forth across the continent and gave him the material for this book, which was much admired by Charles Darwin on his own journey from ocean to ocean six years later.

Constancia de la Mora was the granddaughter of Antonio Maura, who had served under Alfonso XIII as Prime Minister of Spain. She was one of the first women to obtain a divorce under the new laws passed by the fledgling Spanish Republic, and quickly remarried. Her new husband was appointed commander of the Republican air force when the fascist rebellion broke out in 1936, while Constancia became a key figure in the Republic's International Press...

The author joined the International Brigades in Spain as a volunteer to fight against the fascist rebellion led by Franco. He saw action at Cerro de los Ángeles alongside Esmond Romilly and resigned shortly afterwards, staying on in Madrid as a war correspondent. Within a few weeks, most of the British volunteers in his battalion were dead and he had been chased out of Spain as a deserter. Single to Spain is his memoir of those experiences, fi...