ed to provide the national and international background to the records. 
The work of editing this book, “fighting our battles over again”, has 
been a pleasant experience. Our great regret is that — in order to keep 
the book within the limits necessitated by dearth of paper and other 
war-time difficulties in publication – it has been impossible to record 
more than a fraction of the achievements or to mention more than a few 
of the men who in our ranks fought a heroic fight against Fascism. 

FRANK RYAN, Editor. 

MADRID, February 1, 1938. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 

To Dave Doran, Brigade Commissar, who inspired the book and pro- 
vided us with every facility to produce it — our grateful thanks. Our 
thanks, too, to all who helped its making: to John Tisa, Alex Donaldson 
and others who compiled material for it, to Alonzo Elliott who had to 
grapple with half-a-dozen languages in translating manuscripts, to Ale- 
xander Anderson who made the maps and designed the cover, to our 
Brigade photographers, and finally to the printers who in the bombarded 
city of Madrid and under difficult working-conditions have produced 
this edition. 
To edit and publish the book in one month would have been an im- 
possible task had we not the assistance of Sandor Voros of the Historical 
Commission of the International Brigades. To his invaluable assistance 
much of the conciseness and compactness of the book is due. 

EDITOR 

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