Fwd: [CLHLWR] New Sussex Academic Press publication: Biography of Spanish civil war nurse

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>"˜For us it was Heaven"
>The Passion, Grief and Fortitude of Patience Darton
> From the Spanish Civil War to Mao's China
>Angela Jackson
>
>ISBN 978-1-84519-514-4 HB £55 / $74.95
>ISBN 978-1-84519-515-1 PB £22.50 / $34.95
>264 pp. 229 x 152 mm, highly illustrated
>
>This is a biography of many facets offering a 
>wealth of insight and textual content of 
>particular relevance in the context of gender 
>studies. It tells us much of the status of 
>nurses in Britain in the 1930s. It is also an 
>important contribution to the history of the 
>International Brigades and the Republican 
>medical services in the Spanish civil war and 
>adds nuance to our knowledge of foreigners in 
>China in a turbulent period of its history. The 
>story of Patience will surely appeal to many 
>general readers as well as to specialists in those fields.
> From the Preface by Series Editor Paul Preston
>
>Patience Darton's unpublished letters and papers 
>from 1930s Spain and 1950s China are at the 
>heart of this biography, together with testimony 
>from recorded interviews and a wealth of 
>photographs that illustrate the life of this remarkable woman.
>"For us it was Heaven" is the first full-length 
>biography of an Englishwoman who worked as a 
>nurse during the Spanish civil war and probably 
>the only one to be written about a woman of any 
>nationality serving in the International 
>Brigades. It tells the story of a young, upper 
>middle-class nurse in the 1930s who becomes 
>dramatically caught up in Spain's civil war and 
>the passionate political issues of her times, 
>but whose intimate writings reveal emotions and 
>attitudes that will strike a chord with most 
>self-aware and determined women today.
>While Patience nursed near the front lines in 
>Spain, she met and fell in love with Robert, a 
>German International Brigader, deeply committed 
>to the anti-fascist cause. Their passionate 
>relationship coloured the rest of her long life, 
>taking her to work in communist China for four 
>years and then, finally, back to Spain.
>
>Angela Jackson, a doctor of History and author 
>of British Women and the Spanish Civil War, has 
>lived in Catalonia since 2001. Since then, her 
>research on the interactions between civilians 
>and the volunteers of the International Brigades 
>has resulted in further books in English and 
>Catalan. As president of the association No 
>Jubilem la Memòria, she is involved in the 
>production of film documentaries and other 
>activities to recover the memory of the war.
>
>Available in the UK from February 2012 and in the United States from April.
>Sussex Academic Press titles are distributed in 
>the UK, Europe and Rest of the World by Gazelle 
>Book Services, White Cross Mills, Hightown, Lancaster LA1 4XS, UK
>Direct phone orders: +44 (0)1524 68765
>(post & pack in the UK, £2.95)
>A full listing of all Sussex Academic Press titles can be accessed at:
>www.sussex-academic.com
>
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