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David Guest (left) meets Harry Pollitt, general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, in Spain - Guest was killed by a sniper on July 28 1938 during the Battle of the Ebro
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Hampshire Heroes: Volunteer Fighters in the Spanish Civil War
by Alan Lloyd
Clapton Press £11
AUTHOR Alan Lloyd’s dedicated research over many years tells the stories of some 40 volunteers from his home county in Hampshire Heroes: Volunteer Fighters in the Spanish Civil War.
Lloyd’s research is impressive for its breadth and depth, contacting over 100 relatives, friends, librarians, and archivists across the world’ as well as the major sources at Marx Memorial Library, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History and the Tamiment Library in New York.
Keeping the narrative of the Spanish civil war to a minimum, Lloyd ties in the accounts of each volunteer’s life and contribution with the chronological progression of the war.
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![Harry Pollitt (right) with International Brigade volunteer David Guest, who was killed at the Ebro in July 1938 [Pic: Marx Memorial Library]](https://morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2026-07/a-2_a_50b_Harry%20Pollitt_David_Guest.jpg.webp?itok=Ag0u-8n5)
ALEX GORDON applauds the leading role played by Harry Pollitt and the Communist Party in the fight against fascism in Spain and salutes the memory of the International Brigades
![Meirian Jump with MML archivist Matt Dunne [Pic: Marx Memorial Library]](https://morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2026-07/image.png.webp?itok=EO4HHX_7)
The Marx Memorial Library’s Spanish Collection remains a powerful tool for the working-class movement today, writes MML director MEIRIAN JUMP
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled