Works on the British Battalion of the International Brigades

There are now five books on the British Battalion. Three are works by members of the battalion, or its supporters:

Alexander, Bill. British Volunteers for Liberty, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1982.

Ryan, Frank (ed.). The Book of the XVth Brigade: Records of British, American, Canadian and Irish Volunteers in the XV International Brigade in Spain 1936-1938, Madrid: War Commissariat, 1938 (reissued by Warren & Pell in 2003.)

Rust, William. Britons in Spain, London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1939 (reissued by Warren & Pell in 2003.)

The other two are both academic studies. The first, a recent rather more critical work, draws heavily on the previously unseen material held in Moscow:

Hopkins, James K. Into the Heart of the Fire: The British in the Spanish Civil War, California: Stanford, 1998.

The second, and more recent publication, forms the basis of much of the information on this website: 

Baxell, Richard. British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939, London, Routledge/Cañada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain, 2004 (due to be reissued by Warren & Pell in November 2006.)