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title: 'Brigadistes: Lives for Liberty'
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> The Battle of Teruel toppled his [Milton Wolff] principles. In the middle of the battleground, with little time to think, he decided that his commitment to peace required him to grab a machine gun, aim at the fascists running toward him, and pull the trigger. Soon after, he would be the commandant of the Lincoln Battalion.
>> (p 88--9)

> Stretching before many of those who fought in the International Brigades were lives teeming with history. They fought in the Resistance, or with the partisans, or in an army in World War II, or in Soviet or American prisons, and they reached the end of life with a catalogue of unspeakable struggles. But when they were old and on their deathbeds, the places many of them returned to were the Jarama and the Ebre. Perhaps because, as the Frenchman George Sossenko put it, that was where they lost their virginity.
>> (p 116--7)

