You Are a Legend - Welsh Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Gwirfoddolodd bron i 200 o Gymry i deithio i Sbaen i ymladd yn erbyn ffasgaeth yn ystod Rhyfel Cartref Sbaen 1936-1939. Dychwelodd dros 150 ohonynt adref, ond bu farw dros 36 yn y gwrthdaro ffyrnig. Mae You are a Legend yn cofnodi eu hanes nodedig.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Almost 200 Welshmen volunteered to join the International Brigade and travelled to Spain to fight fascism with the Republicans during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. Whilst over 150 returned home, at least 36 died during the brutal conflict. You Are Legend is their remarkable story.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

1. Background to the Spanish Civil War 2. The Wales of the Volunteers 3. The International Brigades 4. Madrid and the Jarama Valley 5. Brunete 6. The Aragon Front 7. The Battle of the Ebro Epilogue Appendix List of Volunteers Bibliography Index

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Graham Davies is a retired education advisor and school inspector, who has travelled widely throughout Spain to research You Are Legend.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

‘Excellent. A paean to the working men and women of Wales who went to Spain to fight in defence of the fledgling Spanish Republic.’ Keith Jones, son of volunteer Tom Jones from Rhos ‘Well researched, and using previously unpublished sources, You Are Legend is recommended reading. It is important that the contribution of the large number of Welsh volunteers continues to be recognised.’ Mary Greening, daughter of volunteer Edwin Greening of Aberdare ‘A highly readable and comprehensively researched account of the Welsh Brigaders.’ Alan Warren, Spanish Civil War historian Lovingly and thoroughly researched by Graham Davies, You Are Legend outlines the motives, values and actions of the volunteers from Wales, by exploring the social, cultural, religious and political context of Wales during the 1930s. It also provides a fascinating insight into who they were, their political backgrounds, and follows their journeys to Spain, their experiences in a series of key battles fought by the British Battalion, before documenting their deaths or safe return to Wales. Politically active as trade unionists, members of the Communist or Labour parties, and hunger marchers; many were unemployed miners and most were working class with the fighting spirit of the coalfield and the impoverished. Unprepared and sometimes incredulous, these volunteers became immersed in a civil war which cruelly created a rupture in the heart of Spain which has never fully healed.