Robert Stradling is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Cardiff. He has written widely on Spanish history. His books include History and Legend: Writing the International Brigades (2002), Europe and the Decline of Spain (1983) and The Spanish Monarchy and Irish Mercenaries (1994).

Stradling's entertainingly-written book, based on painstaking research into archival and oral sources as well as newspapers, memoirs and secondary works, is likely to prove definitive in its field. It needs to be read by anyone interested in the International Brigades or the Communist Party of Great Britain as well as twentieth-century Wales.

Robert Stradling is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Cardiff. He has written widely on Spanish history. His books include History and Legend: Writing the International Brigades (2002), Europe and the Decline of Spain (1983) and The Spanish Monarchy and Irish Mercenaries (1994).

Stradling's entertainingly-written book, based on painstaking research into archival and oral sources as well as newspapers, memoirs and secondary works, is likely to prove definitive in its field. It needs to be read by anyone interested in the International Brigades or the Communist Party of Great Britain as well as twentieth-century Wales.

Robert Stradling is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Cardiff. He has written widely on Spanish history. His books include History and Legend: Writing the International Brigades (2002), Europe and the Decline of Spain (1983) and The Spanish Monarchy and Irish Mercenaries (1994).

Stradling's entertainingly-written book, based on painstaking research into archival and oral sources as well as newspapers, memoirs and secondary works, is likely to prove definitive in its field. It needs to be read by anyone interested in the International Brigades or the Communist Party of Great Britain as well as twentieth-century Wales.