The War Baby is a compelling account of bravery and betrayal in
the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. Amid the last, faltering, steps to
repulse General Franco's fascists, a young British Communist, Frank
Brendan, heads to Barcelona on behalf of the Party. He becomes part of a
hedonistic elite at the helm of what's left of Republican Spain before
being sent to the battle front during the ill-fated Ebro offensive of
1938 - Republican Spain's last stand against the advancing falangists.
He is a political commissar to the British troops among the
International Brigades; his task is to 'expose the bad elements'.
Eventually, Brendan picks up a gun and joins an increasingly brutal and
unequal battle alongside ill-equipped Volunteers. Few of the British
Brigaders make it out alive; none are unscathed. The War Baby
is a blistering account of the corrupting of the struggle against
fascism. It is deeply critical of international Communism while
compassionate and generous towards those who enrolled under that flag.
The War Baby - Alexander Baron
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