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'For Us it was Heaven'
Angela Jackson
其他書名
The Passion, Grief and Fortitude of Patience Darton from the Spanish Civil War to Mao's China
出版
Sussex Academic Press
, 2012
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General
Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & Latino
Biography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)
Biography & Autobiography / Women
History / Asia / China
History / Europe / General
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / Europe / Spain
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
ISBN
1845195159
9781845195151
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fXLuAQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Patience Darton's unpublished letters and papers from 1930s Spain and 1950s China are at the heart of this new biography by Angela Jackson, together with testimony from recorded interviews and a wealth of photographs that illustrate the life of this remarkable woman. 'For us it was Heaven' 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 volunteer in the International Brigades, deeply committed to fighting fascism. Their passionate relationship coloured the rest of her long life, taking her to communist China and then, finally, back to Spain. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.