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The history of
"the unofficial A.E.F."
THE LINCOLN BATTALION
By Edwin Rolfe
This is the complete story of the
American boys who fought for
Loyalist Spain from December 26,
1936, when the first detachment of 86
young Americans left New York
harbor aboard the Normandie, until the
very end of the war -the heroic
account of a small, indifferently
trained but crack frontline army whose
like has seldom been recorded in
modern history.
Only a handful of the boys who
composed this famous unit are left to
tell the story. This book
tells it for them. It will stand as a-
permanent record of what they did and
saw.
A
"valuable
an
extraordinarily
Interesting new book..."
....THE NEW YORK TIMES.
"The hook reaches its climax in a
truly lucid and moving story of the
Aragon retreats. Rolfe carries the
reader along with the men who
showed here perhaps best of all the
stuff they were made of."
... DAVID McKELVY WHITE.
"The human and descriptive record,
done in compact, wiry prose..."
... THE NEW YORKER.
The book is illustrated with many photographs, taken under fire. Just published
$2.50. Order from any bookstore or from the publishers,
RANDOM HOUSE, 20 E. 57 Street, N.Y.C.
