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<font size=4 color="#0000FF">of interest? Pass on as you
wish<br><br>
no need to reply <br>
Cheers<br>
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- Chris<br><br>
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"˜For us it was Heaven"<br>
</b><i>The Passion, Grief and Fortitude of Patience Darton<br>
</i>From the Spanish Civil War to Mao's China<br>
<b>Angela Jackson<br>
</b> <br>
ISBN 978-1-84519-514-4 HB £55 / $74.95<br>
ISBN 978-1-84519-515-1 PB £22.50 / $34.95<br>
264 pp. 229 x 152 mm, highly illustrated<br>
<br>
<b><i>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. </i><br>
</b>From the Preface by Series<b> </b>Editor Paul Preston<i><br>
</i> <br>
Patience Darton's unpublished letters and papers from 1930s Spain and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.<br>
"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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
<b>Angela Jackson</b>, a doctor of History and author of <i>British Women
and the Spanish Civil War, </i>has lived in Catalonia since 2001. Since
then, her research on the interactions between civilians and the
volunteers<i> </i>of the International Brigades has resulted in further
books in English<i> </i>and Catalan. As president of the association
<i>No Jubilem la Memòria</i>, she<i> </i>is involved in the production
of film documentaries and other<i> </i>activities to recover the memory
of the war.<br>
<br>
<b>Available in the UK from February 2012 and in the United States from
April.<br>
</b>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<br>
Direct phone orders: +44 (0)1524 68765<br>
<i>(post & pack in the UK, £2.95)<br>
</i>A full listing of all Sussex Academic Press titles can be accessed
at:<br>
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www.sussex-academic.com</a><br>
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