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Nancy Phillips, US-based IBMT member and contributor to the Friends & Families of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade group, provides the following account of the ‘second effort’ of the 11th International Brigade.

Alexander Clifford’s most recent book on the International Brigades, ‘Fighting for Spain’, was published late last year by Pen & Sword. It follows his last book, a study of the People’s Army of Republican Spain, which received a positive review in the May 2020 issue of ¡No Pasarán!.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the formation of the IBMT, when the International Brigade Association merged with the Friends of the International Brigades. Drawing from papers and personal recollection, IBMT Trustee Pauline Fraser has written a first-hand history of FIBS.

Tickets for the IBMT's annual Len Crome Memorial Conference are now available: Was the Spanish Republic worth dying for? Paul Preston in conversation with Helen Graham.