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10%OFFHugh Purcell - Last English Revolutionary - 9781845194482 - V9781845194482
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Last English Revolutionary

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Description for Last English Revolutionary Paperback. Drawing on his political and fighting experience in the Spanish Civil War, Tom Wintringham wrote the best-seller "New Ways of War": 'a do-it-yourself guide to killing people' but also a highly subversive call for a socialist revolution. He called for 'a People's war' and the phrase stuck. This book tells his story. Num Pages: 320 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BGH; HBJD1; JPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 504.
'Spain woke me up politically. I rediscovered democracy, the power that can come from people working together when a popular front is not just a manoeuvre but a reality.' Drawing on his political and fighting experience in the Spanish Civil War, Tom Wintringham wrote the best-seller New Ways of War: 'a do-it-yourself guide to killing people' but also a highly subversive call for a socialist revolution. He called for 'a People's war' and the phrase stuck. Recalling the English Civil war he likened the Home Guard he trained in guerrilla warfare to the New Model Army and later he helped ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845194482
SKU
V9781845194482
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About Hugh Purcell
Hugh Purcell is a Cambridge University educated historian and formerly BBC producer of history documentaries. He has written several books on the twentieth century and the British Raj. Phyll Smith is a librarian and film academic working in Grimsby. In 2007 he curated the exhibition 'The Life and Writing of Tom Wintringham' and in 2008 he was Librarian of the ... Read more

Reviews for Last English Revolutionary
"The authors do an excellent job of representing Tom Wintringham as a man unfairly forgotten since his death." - Red Lester, Left Central Blog http://leftcentral.org.uk/, July 6th 2013

Goodreads reviews for Last English Revolutionary


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