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    The War Baby

    By Alexander Baron

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    The War Baby is a compelling account of bravery and betrayal in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Amid the last, faltering, steps to repulse General Franco's fascists, a young British Communist, Frank Brendan, heads to Barcelona on behalf of the Party. He becomes part of a hedonistic elite at the helm of what's left of Republican Spain before being sent to the battle front during the ill-fated Ebro offensive of 1938 - Republican Spain's last stand against the advancing falangists. He is a political commissar to the British troops among the International Brigades; his task is to 'expose the bad elements'.
    Eventually, Brendan picks up a gun and joins an increasingly brutal and unequal battle alongside ill-equipped Volunteers. Few of the British Brigaders make it out alive; none are unscathed. The War Baby is a blistering account of the corrupting of the struggle against fascism. It is deeply critical of international Communism while compassionate and generous towards those who enrolled under that flag.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFive Leaves Publications
    Release dateAug 28, 2019
    ISBN9781910170700
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    Alexander Baron

    Alexander Baron (1917-1999) was a British author and screenwriter. Widely acclaimed in his lifetime, he wrote several other novels, as well as Hollywood film scripts and screenplays for the BBC.

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