CHURCHILL'S SPANIARDS: Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46

Name: CHURCHILL'S SPANIARDS: Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46
Start: 2024-09-07T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-07T14:00:00+01:00
Location: DRAKE - The Bookshop

Schedule

Sat Sep 07 2024 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

DRAKE - The Bookshop | Stockton-on-tees, EN

We are really pleased to announce that, Sean Scullion will be including the finest bookshop in the North; Drake the Bookshop (https://www.drakethebookshop.co.uk/ ) in his national book launch tour.
Séan Scullion is an officer in the Royal Engineers. Brought up in Spain during the later stages of General Franco’s regime and the country’s subsequent transition to democracy, he studied Spanish at the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on military matters and was a Spanish writer for Collins and Oxford University Press. He is the the author of CHURCHILL'S SPANIARDS: Continuing the Fight in the British Army 1939-46 - https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/churchills-spaniards-continuing-the-fight-in-the-british-army-1939-46.php
Churchill’s Spaniards is not the story of the Spanish Civil War, nor the equally well-known one of the International Brigades. It is the story of the recruitment, training and deployment of often battle hardened Spaniards into the service of the realm.
These fighting men served across the British Army: from the elite SAS, Commandos and Special Operations Executive to the ranks of the Infantry and Pioneer Corps. Spaniards fought in almost all battles and campaigns in the West from the Fall of France and the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, to the campaigns in North Africa, Italy as well as France and Germany to the end of the war. Some of these men made their homes on Teesside after the war.
Sean has used wide ranging material from Britain, France and Spain as well as previously unpublished eyewitness and official accounts along with ground breaking new research.
Special thanks go to Drake the Bookshop for hosting this event.