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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.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To Dave Doran, Brigade Commissar, who inspired the book and pro- lvided us with every faci-lity to produce it — our grateful thanks. Our thanks, too, «to all who helped its making: to John T isa, Alex Donaldson and others ‘who compiled material for it, to Alonzo Elliott’ who had to grapple with half-a-xdozen 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 du-e.

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