Kiwi compañeros : New Zealand and the Spanish Civil War / edited by Mark Derby.

"Canterbury University Press in association with the Labour History Project"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-295) and index.

Pt. 1. New Zealand combatants. Pedro de Treend : last man standing. Griffith Maclaurin : mathematician in Madrid. Steve Yates : good bloke. Tom Spiller : the man they couldn't kill. Fred Robertson : unassuming internationalist. Charlie Riley : shock brigader. Eric Griffiths : kiwi flying ace. William MacDonald : a member of the Spanish Government Army. Alex MacLure : the Canadian professor. William Madigan : don't think I'm a soldier of fortune. Bernard Gray : the tankbuster from Masterton. Bert Bryan : soldier and long-term casualty. Jack Kent : the Taranaki tiger. Peter Russell : the Oxford spy. Bill Trussell : covert courier. Philip Cross : the film-maker who fought for Franco. Postwar immigrants (Greville Texidor : militia woman ; Greville Texidor's 'notebook of a militia woman' ; Werner Droescher : New Zealand voice for the Spanish 'Libertarios' ; Ron Hurd : rugged Aussie adventurer ; Bill Belcher : Cambridge graduate, anarchist, militia man ; Bob Ford : the remarkably tall American ; Jim Hoy : the real McCoy ; Don Miles : blockade-runner from Brixton) -- Pt. 2. New Zealand non-combatants. Doug Jolly : battlefield surgeon. Gladys Montgomery : public-spirited doctor. Nurses Shadbolt, Dodds and Sharples : doing something useful instead of just fighting. Una Wilson : I feel tonight I could never smile again. Dorothy Morris : nursing as we know it is practically unknown here. Geoffrey Cox : a transformation. Robert Macintosh : pro-Franco anaesthetist (and possible spy). Postwar immigrants (Franz Bielchowsky and Marianne Angermann : medics and serial refugees) -- Pt. 3. The domestic response. The Communist Party : powerhouse of solidarity. The Labour Party : a principled stand. The Catholic Church : the defensive offensive. Trade unions : the backbone of fundraising. The Spanish Medical Aid Committee and other aid efforts : for Spain and humanity. New Zealand foreign policy : principles or pragmatism?. Bringing it home " the almost invisible literary response -- Pt. 4. Unearthing the past. The role of historical memory.