spanish civil war
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A Bullet Saved My Life tells the remarkable story of Bob Peters, one of the last surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War.Penarth-born Bob left Wales to go to Canada during the Depression. He found work on the Great Lakes and also became interested in politics.Early in 1937 he sailed from New York to France
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The Western Mail ran my tribute to Alun this week. It is here .
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Alun Menai-Williams, one of the last remaining British veterans of the Spanish Civil War, died yesterday.He was 93.Alun lived a remarkable life. As a medic in Spain, as an RAF policeman in World War 2, as a loving family man who rarely talked about his experiences.And then after his wife died in 1998 he wrote
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For those interested in Welsh links to the Spanish Civil War, there is an article on Alun Menai Williams in April’s Military History magazine which is now in all good bookshops (as they say).I’m presently working with Alun on a book about the Battle of the Ebro. It’s a follow up to his engrossing memoir
Greg Lewis 