Spain's Cause was Mine: A Memoir of an American Medic in the Spanish Civil War .No man ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain.”Ernest Hemingway In 1937, Hank Rubin, a twenty-year-old Jewish pre-med student at U
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| Title | : | Spain's Cause was Mine: A Memoir of an American Medic in the Spanish Civil War |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (140 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809321599 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1997-12-01 |
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No man ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain.”Ernest Hemingway In 1937, Hank Rubin, a twenty-year-old Jewish pre-med student at UCLA, volunteered for service in the International Brigades combating fascists in the Spanish Civil War. In his illustrated memoir, Rubin reflects on those events, making no apologies for his youthful impulsiveness, bravado, and ideology, but recalling the heroics and sufferings he witnessed and experienced in Spain, as well as the disappointing treatment he received upon his return.
Editorial : From Kirkus Reviews This brief memoir of the Spanish Civil War by an American who volunteered with the International Brigade builds up steam slowly but does eventually become quite gripping. Rubin takes a full third of the book just to describe how difficult it was to get to Spain in 1937 and then devotes additional space to an unsurprising description of his basic training. Following that, though, he offers a detailed look at a war-ravaged country as he describes his journey through separatist Catalonia to join republican positions closer to Madrid. In repeatedly evoking the political climate of the times, stressing the effect of the world's reluctance to act to save Spain from fascist dictatorship, Rubin spares neither his own country nor the Vatican. Initially part of a combat unit, Rubin contracted hepatitis as a result of repeated bouts of dysentery (a subject that, along with his finally remedied virginity, Rubin is perhaps too frank about) and was sent to an army hospital, where
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