There were a few thousand soldiers who went to fight in Spain who were of other political stripes – others on the left, anarchists and independent leftists and so on. But the big body was recruited by the Communists. And there are even some non-Communists who deal with this in what they wrote. For example, one of the characters in my book is an Englishman named Pat Gurney, who was very much a non-Communist.
KIOS 91.5 FM (Omaha), “In Many Ways, Author Says, Spanish Civil War Was ‘The First Battle Of WWII'”
