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Book Review: Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War by Michael Petrou, UBC Press, 2008

Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War is an essential read for anyone interested in why hundreds of  Canadians would volunteer to fight in a distant foreign war and why Canada passed (largely ineffective) legislation to prevent them from going.

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Jason Webster, Author of Guerra, Says Jim Higgins’ Memoir is a Key Read…

I must have loads of chutzpah*. When I chose my second round of beta readers, I went right to the top. One is a senior librarian at the University of Toronto and three are academics/authors in fields directly relevant to Jim Higgins’ memoir.

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