Behind the Spanish Barricades - preview
Debbie Langdon-Davies describes her Quaker war-reporter father’s journeys with an extract from his newly republished book about his experiences in Spain
In May 1936, my father, the journalist and writer John Langdon-Davies, went to Spain to report on the May Day celebrations in Madrid for the News Chronicle In August, he returned to report on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, only to find that many of those people he had watched celebrating now lay dead
A pacifist and Quaker, he was appalled at Spain's fate, and of the effect of the war on the Spanish people He returned to England in autumn 1936 and, reflecting the urgency of the moment, sat down to write a book, Behind the Spanish Barricades, in only five weeks His aim was to persuade British and American readers and governments to intervene in Spain in order to prevent catastrophe My father was committed to nonviolence Unusually for a man of his time, he never smacked us as children
Debbie Langdon-Davies
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