Homage to Caledonia by Daniel Gray
Thirty-five thousand people from acrossthe world volunteered to join the armedresistance in a war on fascism. Morepeople, proportionately, went fromScotland than any other country, and theentire nation was gripped by the conflict.What drove so many ordinary Scots tovolunteer for a foreign war?Their stories are powerfully and honestlytold, often in their own words: theordinary men and women who madetheir way to Spain over the Pyreneeswhen the UK government banned anyonefrom going to support either side;the nurses and ambulance personnelwho discovered for themselves thehorrors of modern warfare; and thepeople back home who defied theirpoverty to give generously to theSpanish republican cause.Even in war there are light-heartedmoments: a Scottish volunteer drunkenlyurinating in his general's boots, enduringthe dark comedy of learning to shootwith sticks amidst a scarcity of rifles,or enjoying the surreal experience ofraising a dram with Errol Flynn.They went from all over the country:Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee,Fife and the Highlands, and they foughtto save Scotland, and the world, fromthe growing threat of fascism.
'Daniel Gray's important and powerful book Homage toCaledonia tells the story of those deeply committedand courageous Scots who volunteered to fight for democracyand socialism against General Franco and his forces' TONY BENN
Daniel Gray graduated with a politics and history degree from Newcastle University where he focussed in particular on foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War. Daniel has carried out extensive research into Scotland's role in the Spanish Civil War, and lectured throughout Scotland on the topic. He has also written on the topic for Discover magazine and the Scotsman. He is currently employed as a curator in the National Library of Scotland, working on 19th century literary manuscripts contained within the John Murray Archive and lives in Edinburgh.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781906307646 |
| ISBN 10 | 1906307644 |
| Title | Homage to Caledonia |
| Author | Daniel Gray |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Luath Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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