Our Fathers Fought Franco

WILLY MALEY is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow, Fellow of the English Association (FEA), and founder, with Philip Hobsbaum, of Glasgow’s Creative Writing programme. His father James Maley was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War.TAM WATTERS is the son of George Watters.JENNIE RENTON is the daughter of Donald Renton.ROSEMARY WILLIAMS is the daughter of Archibald Williams.

This wonderful and moving book adds something completely original to the Spanish Civil War narrative. - DANIEL GRAY, from the forewordAn extraordinary example, and an unforgettable, essential book. - ANGUS REID, The Morning StarSuch openness connects us readers to the vulnerabilities of a family, life in all its complexity and difficulty. This is a virtue of all four accounts in Our Fathers Fought Franco… What comes through persistently in ‘Our Fathers Fought Franco’ is a sense of how much we have to learn from the past. - ALAN RIACH, The NationalPart first-person history, part war memoir, part working-class polemic, it is a valuable addition to the canon. - RB, The Scottish FieldToo often their experiences went unrecorded. - THE PENNILESS PRESSEach of the authors calls us to read the signs for our own times in the legacy of these men of the IB. This book is a fine tribute to them and their comrades. - LESLEY ORR, Bella Caledonia