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The year is 1838. Valentín de Avellaneda has been forced into exile in Uruguay with his wife and son by the blood-thirsty Argentine dictator, General Juan Manuel de Rosas, who has denounced him as a "Unitarian savage". As the fugitive tries to escort his family to a place of safety upriver, Rosas orders his capture and arrest and he is brought back to Buenos Aires, to stand trial as an enemy of the state . . .

Between 1936 and 1939 several thousand men and women from Britain chose to leave the safety of their homes and involve themselves in another country's civil war. The country was Spain, where a military uprising had been launched against the country's Republican government. Most of the British who went to Spain were volunteers for the legendary International Brigades, though others served in other roles, such as medics, journalists or aid workers. A few even fought for Franco.Drawing substantially on new material, these ten biographies tell the stories of a handful of those extraordinary men and women, explaining why they went to Spain, what happened to them there and the lasting, often dramatic impact the war had on their lives. While they survived the war, all were forever changed by their experiences. All of them were, in their different ways, forged in Spain.Richard Baxell is a historian who has written extensively on the British volunteers and the Spanish Civil War. His Unlikely Warriors was short-listed for the 2013 political history book of the year.Reviewers' Comments:'As the Spanish Civil War fades from living memory, Richard Baxell has rescued from obscurity some of the brave men and women who left the safety of their homes in Britain to risk all in the fight against fascism, using newly released archival material to bring their stories vividly to life.'Billy Bragg.'These enthralling biographies give a picture of the passions of the age ... Baxell's research is meticulous ... Forged in Spain is a serious and moving book that may inspire readers to fight the rise of a new fascism today.'Michael Eaude, The TLS. 'Ten fascinating biographies of extraordinary men and women ... this book will obviously be of great interest to both specialists and general readers ... thoroughly researched, absorbing to read.'Brian Rubin, The Orwell Society'The great strength of the book lies in Baxell's project of showing how these individuals' life stories were given a defining "barricade moment" of political clarity during the war, and how the conflict called forth previously unknown strengths of leadership and organisation from its participants ... the personal stories are absorbing and exceedingly well told, as Baxell skilfully interweaves varied sources - archival, oral history and autobiography.'Helen Mercer, The Morning Star

A young soldier, Gustavo Sintora, arrives in Madrid Franco's rebel forces capture Málaga. He is posted to the Republican army's mobile entertainment unit who are billeted in a mansion on the city's outskirts and put on shows for troops along the front line. There he meets Serena Vergara, a seamstress who is destined to become the love of his life. As the war becomes darker and more intense, Sintora's unit is sent into action on the Ebro front. Faced with the horrors of the battlefield and the inevitability of defeat, the unit gradually disintegrates and the soldiers go their separate ways. Sintora rushes back to Madrid, desperate to find Serena ... Soldiers in the Fog was awarded the prestigious Primavera prize. "I don't like novels about the Spanish Civil War, but Soldiers in the Fog really blew me away." Paul Preston Antonio Soler was born in Málaga in 1956. His writing career began in 1992 with the publication of a collection of short stories and a novella. Since then, he has published more than a dozen novels, many of them award-winnin, several of them translated into a number of languages.

Agnes Hodgson arrived in Barcelona from Sydney in December 1936, towards the start of the Spanish Civil War. She spent the next twelve months as a volunteer nurse at field hospitals in Grañén and Poleñino, close to the Aragón front. Her diary provides a fascinating first-hand account of the political turmoil on the ground and the horrifying impact of the war on her patients. Judith Keene's detailed introduction includes an in-depth analysis of the political background to the war as well as its perception halfway across the world in Australia, and has been completely revised for this new edition.

The year is 1838. Valentín de Avellaneda has been forced into exile in Uruguay with his wife and son by the brutal Argentine dictator, General Juan Manuel de Rosas, who has denounced him as a "Unitarian savage". As the fugitive tries to reach a place of safety with his family upriver, Rosas orders his capture and arrest and he is brought back to Buenos Aires to stand trial as an enemy of the state . . .

In 1939, in the final stages of the Spanish Civil War, Nancy and Archie Johnstone made a desperate dash for the border with the children they had sheltered in their hotel in Tossa de Mar. Once in France the children were interned in a concentration camp. After doing all they could to help, the Johnstones went into exile in Mexico. Sombreros are Becoming, the third volume of Nancy's memoirs, is a light-hearted account of how they rebuilt their lives in Cuernavaca.

Cuba's third war of independence had begun in February 1865. The US declared war on Spain in April 1898 and in June the first detachment of the notorious "Rough Riders" landed on Cuban shores. Embedded alongside them were a number of journalists, including thirty-year-old Harrie Irving Hancock. What One Man Saw is a record of his experiences on the island, published later the same year.

Oasis en la vida is a melodramatic novel by the outstanding Argentine author Juana Manuela Gorriti. Published in 1888; it is a reflection on the financial hardship and struggles of a young aspiring writer following a loveless childhood in exile.