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'For Us It Was Heaven'

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Patience Darton's unpublished letters and papers from 1930s Spain and 1950s China are at the heart of this new biography by Angela Jackson, together with testimony from recorded interviews and a wealth of photographs that illustrate the life of this remarkable woman. 'For us it was Heaven' tells the story of a young, upper middle-class nurse in the 1930s who becomes dramatically caught up in Spain's civil war and the passionate political issues of her times, but whose intimate writings reveal emotions and attitudes that will strike a chord with most self-aware and determined women today. While Patience nursed near the front lines in Spain, she met and fell in love with Robert, a German volunteer in the International Brigades, deeply committed to fighting fascism. Their passionate relationship coloured the rest of her long life, taking her to communist China and then, finally, back to Spain. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

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ISBN: 9781845195144
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Author: Angela Jackson, Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 239 pages
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
Genres: European history
Civil wars
Modern warfare
Specific wars and campaigns