![]() ![]() Introduction Some Facts Sources Jews from the East End and the Spanish Civil War The attitude of the Jewish Establishment and Religious Jews to those Jews who went to fight in Spain, from Britain The Figures and the sacrifice Acknowledgements The Jaroslav Dombrowski Brigade The American Volunteers - Abraham Lincoln / Washington Brigade The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion – Canada The Latvian Volunteers Franco – Belge Brigade Georges Dimitrov Austrians Italians Israel (Palestine Mandate) The Romanians The Germans – Thaelmann bat. ![]() God help me I do love it so.(Note – This survey is available at the AJEX Archives of the Jewish Military Museum in Hendon, the Marx Memorial Library (MML) in Clerkenwell, The Imperial War Museum Library, The National Archives at Kew, The British Library, The SOAS Library at the University of London, the LSE Spanish Studies Library, the Jewish Historical Society of England Library, UCL Jewish Studies Library, and The Wiener Library – all in London Manchester University Library, The Hebrew University Library in Jerusalem, The Virtual Jewish Library website, VALBA (Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade) web site and Brandeis University Library in the USA. Made all the better by the fact that it IS a cheap, sickeningly self indulgent wad of fluff that you feel doubly guilty of consuming. Absolute suspension of disbelief, pure enjoyment of the insanity of it all, and a curious thought that you could not enjoy life more if you were shotgunned Thai sticks by Godzilla himself. As you take in the visceral train wreck (that could only be better if released in grainy 8mm), you are reminded of what good/bad scifi is. In other words a glorious triumph of B-grade movie making. Wooden acting, special effects from a Midwestern middle school science fair, a script that veers wildly from insipid to bizarre to total nonsense, actors that should face summary execution if they made only scale and still cashed their paychecks, a director that makes Ed Wood look like Ingmar Bergman. To paraphrase Elvis Costello- I just don't know where to begin. I only wish this movie had been released to Drive-In theaters and been promoted on a twin bill with any other low rent/grade/brow cinematic masterpiece from the ill human beings at SyFy. ![]()
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