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Works on and interviews with British and Irish volunteers 

On particular volunteers:

Bennett, Richard, ‘Portrait of a Killer’, New Statesman, 24 March 1961, pp.471-472 (Article on George Nathan).

Cronin, Seán, Frank Ryan: The Search for the Republic, Dublin: Repsol, 1979.

Fernbach, David, ‘Tom Wintringham and Socialist Defence Strategy’, History Workshop Journal, 14, Autumn 1982, pp.63-91.

Hall, Christopher, Disciplina Camaradas: four English volunteers in Spain 1936-39, Pontefract: Gosling Press, 1994 (A study of the role in Spain of Maurice Levine, Bernard McKenna, David Goodman and Stafford Cottman).

Harrison, Stanley, Good to be Alive: The Story of Jack Brent, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1954.

Klaus, H. Gustav, ed., Strong Words, Brave Deeds: The Poetry, Life and Times of Thomas O’Brien, Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, Dublin: O’Brien Press, 1994.

Lewis, Brian and Gledhill, Bill, A Lion of a Man, Yorkshire Art Circus, 1985 (Includes 'Pounded Earth' by Tommy James).

Lewis, Greg, A Bullet Saved My Life: The remarkable adventures of Bob Peters, Pontypool: Warren & Pell, 2006.

MacDougall, Ian, ‘Tom Murray: Veteran of Spain’, Cencrastus, 18, Autumn 1984, pp.16-19.

Preston, Paul, Doves of War, London: Harper Collins, 2002 (includes a chapter on Nan Green).

Purcell, Hugh, The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham 1898-1949, Stroud: Sutton, 2004.

Stansky, Peter and Abrahams, William, Journey to the Frontier: Two Roads to the Spanish Civil War, London: Constable. 1966 (On Julian Bell and John Cornford).

Collections of interviews:

Cook, Judith, Apprentices of Freedom, London: Quartet Press, 1979

Corkhill, D., and Rawnsley, S., eds, The Road to Spain: Anti Fascists at War 1936-1939, Fife: Borderline, 1981.

Crowley, Mike, ‘Rebels Against Rebels’, North West Labour History, 22, 1997-1998. pp.78-81.

Imperial War Museum, The Spanish Civil War Collection, London: Imperial War Museum, 1996.

MacDougall, Ian ed., Voices from the Spanish Civil War: Personal Recollections of Scottish Volunteers in Republican Spain, 1936-1939, Edinburgh: Polygon, 1986.