Our Fathers Fought Franco: Three Volunteers for Spanish Freedom

James Maley, George Watters, and Archibald Williams were members of Machine Gun Company No. 2 of the XV International Brigade. This is the first book to focus on a small group of men from different starting-points, ended up in the same battleground at Jarama, and then in the same prisons after capture by Franco’s forces. Their remarkable story is told both in their own words and in the recollections of their sons and daughters, through a prison notebook, newspaper reports, stills cut from newsreels, interviews, anecdotes, and memories with a foreword by Daniel Gray. Drawing on interviews, letters, diaries, newspaper reports and historical accounts, and illustrated with original images and documents, Our Fathers Fought Franco is a collective biography that promises to add significantly to the understanding of the motives of those who ‘went because their open eyes could see no other way’. This book will be of interest to those who enjoy political, military, Scottish and Spanish history.