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The Last Stand of the XV International Brigade: Foreign Volunteers and the Betrayal of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War

The Last Stand of the XV International Brigade: Foreign Volunteers and the Betrayal of the Republic in the Spanish Civil War

Maddox, Winston

Paperback

Series: The Definitive History of the Spanish Civil War, Book 10

General Military HistorySpainish & Portuguese History

ISBN13: 9798233538667
Publisher: Winston Maddox Publishing
Published: Aug 23 2026
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

When you close your eyes and listen to the history of 1938, do you only hear the diplomatic chatter of European ministers, or can you hear the deafening concussive roar of Italian Savoia-Marchetti bombers pulverizing the limestone ridges above Gandesa?

For decades, popular narratives have reduced the Ebro Offensive to a tragic footnote-a brief, romantic prelude to World War II where brave foreign idealists marched under colorful banners only to be overwhelmed by Franco's military machine. But history is rarely so clean, and it is never so soft. The Last Stand of the XV International Brigade strips away decades of romanticized mythmaking to deliver a brutal, tactically precise operational history of the largest battle of the Spanish Civil War. Drawing from frontline journals, military dispatches, and neglected foreign ministry archives, this volume takes you onto the scorched earth of Hill 481, where the Abraham Lincoln and British Battalions were pushed past the brink of human endurance.

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