{"product_id":"not-for-king-or-country-edward-cecil-smith-the-communist-party-of-canada-and-the-spanish-civil-war-paperback-softback-9781487522889","title":"Not for King or Country; Edward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War (Paperback \/ softback) 9781487522889","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNot for King or Country\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEdward Cecil-Smith, the Communist Party of Canada, and the Spanish Civil War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTyler Wentzell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487522889\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNot for King or Country\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome addition to the scholarship on both the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion and the Communist Party of Canada. Today\u0026amp;#x2019;s generation of anti-fascists would do well to read it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e - Scott Costen (\u003cem\u003eRedaction Politics\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNot for King or Country\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of Edward Cecil-Smith, a dynamic propagandist for the Communist Party of Canada during the Great Depression. Born to missionary parents in China in 1903, Cecil-Smith came to Toronto in 1919 where he joined the Canadian militia and lived a happy life ensconced in the Protestant missionary community of Toronto. He became increasingly interested in radical politics during the 1920s, eventually joining the Communist Party in 1931. Worried by the growing strength of fascism around the world, particularly in China, Germany, Italy, and Spain during the summer of 1936, Cecil-Smith quietly departed Canada and became among the first volunteers to fight for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Cecil-Smith was motivated to fight not out of any sense of traditional patriotism (\"for king or country\") but out of a sense that the onward march of fascism had to be stopped, and Spain was where the line had to be drawn.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNot for King or Country\u003c\/em\u003e is the first biography of a Canadian commander in the Spanish Civil War, and is also the first book to critically analyse the major battles in which the Canadian and American volunteers fought. Drawing upon declassified RCMP files, records held in the Russian Archives in Moscow, audio recordings of the volunteers, a detailed survey of maps, and battle records, as well as the Communist Party press, \u003cem\u003eNot for King or Count\u003c\/em\u003ery breaks down the battles and the Party's activities in a way that will be accessible to interested readers and scholars alike. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. An Idyllic Youth \u003cbr\u003e2.  Radicalization \u003cbr\u003e3. Joining the Party \u003cbr\u003e4. Theatre: Our Weapon \u003cbr\u003e5. Art, Propaganda and the Popular Front \u003cbr\u003e6. Defend the Soviet Union! \u003cbr\u003e7. No Pasaran! \u003cbr\u003e8. The George Washington Battalion \u003cbr\u003e9. The Fighting Canucks \u003cbr\u003e10. The Defense of Teruel \u003cbr\u003e11. The Retreats \u003cbr\u003e12. Crossing the Ebro \u003cbr\u003e13. Coming Home \u003cbr\u003e14. A Second Anti-Fascist War\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595499532568,"sku":"9781487522889","price":25.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/not-for-king-or-country-edward-cecil-smith-the-communist-party-of-canada-and-the-spanish-civil-war-paperback-softback-9781487522889","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}