"Un Marino, Un Heroe" -- a poster from the Spanish Civil War, 1938.

Tamiment Library, New York University

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

Selected Bibliography

Bermack, Richard, The Front Lines of Social Change: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2005.

Bessie, Alvah. Alvah Bessie’s Spanish Civil War Notebooks ed. Dan Bessie. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001.

Bessie, Alvah. Men in Battle: A Story of Americans in Spain, New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1939.

Bessie. Alvah. Spain Again. San Francisco, CA: Chandler and Sharp, 1925.

Bessie, Alvah & Albert Prago, eds. Our Fight: Writings by Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Spain 1936-1939. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987.

Brandt, Joe, ed. Black Americans in the Spanish People’s War Against Fascism, 1936-1939,. New York, Joe Brandt, [1979?].

Cane, Lawrence. Fighting Fascism in Europe: The World War Two Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War,. Edited by David Cane, Judith Barrett Litoff, and David C. Smith. New York: Fordham University Press, 2003.

Carroll, Peter and James D. Fernandez, eds. Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War, New York: Museum of the City of New York and New York University Press, 2007

Carroll, Peter N. Michael Nash and Melvin Small, eds. The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade,. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Carroll, Peter N. The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War,. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Carter, Allene G. and Robert L. Allen. Honoring Sergeant Carter: Redeeming a Black World War II Hero’s Legacy,. New York: Amistad, 2003.

Collum, Danny Duncan, ed. African Americans in the Spanish Civil War: This Ain’t Ethiopia, but It’ll Do. New York: G. K. Hall & Co. 1992.

Eby, Cecil. Between the Bullet and the Lie: American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War,. New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1969.

Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War (exhibit catalogue)

Fisher, Harry. Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War,. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998

Felsen, Milt. The Anti-Warrior: A Memoir.. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1989.

Gates, John. The Story of an American Communist. New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1958.

Geiser, Carl. Prisoners of the Good Fight. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1986.

Gerassi, John. The Premature Antifascists: North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939: An Oral History. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1986.

Glazer, Peter. Radical Nostalgia: Spanish Civil War Commemoration in America. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005.

Guttmann, Allan. The Wound in the Heart: America and the Spanish Civil War,. New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1962.

Katz, William Loren and Marc Crawford, eds. The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History. New York: Atheneum, 1989.

Landis, Arthur, H. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade. New York: Citadel Press, 1967.

Lawson, Don. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans Fighting Fascism in the Spanish Civil War. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1986.

Leeds, Joseph. Let My People Know: The Story of Wilfred Mendelson, ("Mendy"). Written and published by his friends, 1942.

Merriman, Marion and Warren Lerude. American Commander in Spain: Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1986.

Nelson, Cary. The Aura of the Cause: A Photo Album for North American Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. Waltham, MA: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, 1997.

Nelson, Cary and Jefferson Hendricks, eds. Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Nelson, Steve. The Volunteers. New York: Masses & Mainstream, 1953.

Patai, Frances. “Heroines of the Good Fight: Testimonies of U.S. Nurses in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,” Nursing History Review, Vol. 3 (1995), pp.79-104.

Rochman, Alan Stuart. “Jewish Participation in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.” MA Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 1981. (Copy in Tamiment Library, ALBA Vertical Files)

Rolfe, Edwin. The Lincoln Battalion. New York: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1974.

Romerstein, Herbert. Heroic Victims: Stalin’s Foreign Legion in the Spanish Civil War. Washington, DC: Council for the Defense of Freedom, 1994.

Rosenstone, Robert. Crusade of the Left: The Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War. New York: Pegasus, 1969.

Rubin, Hank. Spain’s Cause Was Mine: A Memoir of an American Medic in Spain Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997.

Science and Society. Special issue on the Spanish Civil War. Vol. 68, no. 3 (Fall 2004).

Shumacker, Harris B. Leo Eloesser, M.D.: Eulogy for a Free Spirit. New York: Philosophical Library, 1982.

Solovy, Jonathan Stuart. “Jewish American Volunteers and the Spanish Civil War: A Study of Tripartite Identity.” MA Thesis, University of Michigan, 1981. (copy in Tamiment Library ALBA vertical Files)

Stewart, Cameron. “Summoned to the Eternal Field: An Inquiry into the Development and the Composition of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.” PhD Thesis, Claremont Graduate School and University Center, 1971. (Copy in Tamiment Library, Library Stacks)

Taylor, F. Jay. The United States and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. New York: Bookman Associates, 1956.

Tisa, John. Recalling the Good Fight: An Autobiography of the Spanish Civil War. South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey Publishers, 1985.

Yates, James. Memoir of a Black American in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Mississippi to Madrid. Seattle, WA: Open Hand Publishing, 1989.

William Sennett: Communist Functionary and Corporate Executive, an oral history interview conducted by Marshall Windmiller. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, 1984.

 

Updated 9/13/07