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Found a review here: http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=6627

For anyone who might be interested, I will be giving a talk about Conquer or Die! at Bolivar Hall, the Venezuelan Embassy's cultural centre and former residence of Bolivar and Miranda on the 26th July at 7pm. There's an open door policy and free entry. The address is 54-6 Grafton Way, London...

A review of sorts (more like an article really) has been published in the Camden (North London) New Journal: http://www.camdennewjournal.com/reviews/books/2011/jul/books-review-they-shall-not-pass-ben-hughes

Yes. He's not one to concede a point easily, is he?

Here's a link to a new log I wrote on the sources used for They Shall not Pass! http://www.ospreypublishing.com/blog/They_Shall_Not_Pass_The_Sources/

More or less. With such a tightly focussed book, it's hard not to get caught up with the characters you're writing about. Also, the SCW is so political I think everyone takes sides - even now. I tried not to show bias and criticize the republicans and the British Battalion as much as I praise...

Here's a review from Publisher's Weekly, an American trade magazine. They Shall Not Pass: The British Battalion at Jarama Ben Hughes. Osprey, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-84908-549-6 Hughes (Conquer or Die! Wellington's Veterans and the Liberation of the New World) ably narrates the incredible...

Interesting. Do you know about Peter Kemp? Peter Mant MacIntyre Kemp, soldier and writer: born Bombay 19 August 1915; MC 1941; DSO 1945; twice married (marriages dissolved); died London 30 October 1993. PETER KEMP was a distinguished irregular soldier during the Second World War, and long...

Which unit did he fight with?

Jason Gurney was born in Norfolk, England but his family moved to South Africa while he was still a boy. He finished his education there then returned to Europe, where he worked for the Norwegian whaling fleet and studied art at the Académie Colarossi in Paris, before moving to the King's Road...

It was fascinating to research. The amount of first hand source material covering a period of three days is extraordinary. The highlight was my trip to the comintern archive in Moscow. It was during the ash cloud panic and so I got to stay longer than I had expected. The quantity and detail of...

Here are the amazon links. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1849085498/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0KTPJYBR1GT90BJ86HNZ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294...

I am the author.

Great stuff. Glad to have been of help.

True for their series books, but this is a general military title. 288 pages focussing on the British Battalion over three days at the battle of Jarama. It's written from original research done in archives in London, Manchester, Madrid, Avila and Moscow and is definitely not superficial.

Hi Louis, A very interesting idea you're working on, but there are a few factual errors in your description of the battle. 1) The British Battalion were not invovled in the Battle of Jarama until the morning of the 12th. Over night on the 11th they moved up from Chinchon and formed up a few...

Osprey are set to release a new book on the SCW. It's about the British Battalion in the International Brigades at Jarama and is called They Shall not Pass. Looks like it might be interesting. Here's a blog from their website… Over thirty-five thousand volunteers from fifty-two countries fought...

Has anyone read this new book from Osprey? If so, is it any good? In the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, over six thousand British volunteers sailed across the Atlantic to aid Simón Bolívar liberate Gran Colombia from her oppressors in Madrid. The expeditions were plagued by disaster from...