The Ambulance Man And The Spanish Civil War: Forgotten Stories From Spain, #1

By Paul Read

The True Story of the Canadian Doctor and Ambulance driver that came to help a city in exodus. 
Try to imagine that the city of Malaga is to be evacuated overnight. 150.000 people will have to walk 200km along the coastal road in search of a safe refuge whilst being pursued by Italian tanks, bombed by German aircraft and shelled by Rebel Nationalist ships. Unarmed men, women and children will be shot from planes or killed by blasts from the boats that pursue them off-shore, their bodies will be left at the roadside, abandoned to the chaos and inhumanity of adults at war. There will be little food, transport or fresh water. Nourished only by hope and driven by fear, exposed to the elements and to enemy fire, they will walk through the day and through the night. Many will be too weak to reach the safe port of Almería and will only survive because a Canadian doctor comes to help. A doctor who will later be accused of spying and betrayal, and will be unwillingly pushed out of Spain by the very people he had come to assist.

The Forgotten Stories from Spain Series brings you accounts of human bravery and spirit at a moment of unleashed cruelty during the Spanish Civil War. Stories of co-operation that have a universal message that remains as relevant to the world today, as it was in Spain during the 1930's.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Craving Distraction Ltd
• Release date: Apr 26, 2014
• ISBN: 9781386864707

Paul Read

Born restless in the very centre of London, England, Paul Read now fidgets his way back and forth between the Uk and Spain in search of good coffee, good conversation and fresh vegetables. In the absence of finding any of these, he writes, schemes and plans for global domination but generally settles for a series of podcasts, books, and online teaching courses: All freshly brewed and 100% guru-free.

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Forgotten Stories From Spain:

The Ambulance Man and the Spanish Civil War

Paul Read

Forgotten Stories From Spain: 

The Ambulance Man and the Spanish Civil War

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Copyright 2014

Paul Read

Granada. Andalusia. Spain

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

REALLYMINI

Paul Read has lived and worked all over Spain for the last 20 years. At present, he writes, teaches and rejoices in remaining both geographically and linguistically lost wherever he travels. Find out more at the end of this book.

What Others are saying about The Forgotten Stories From Spain: 

This book brings to life some humanity in a terrible barbaric era in Spain's history 

L. W. BAXENDALE

1984 And The Spanish Civil War's the second in Paul Read's Forgotten Stories from Spain series. In terms of what's happening now in the Iberian political landscape, it's essential reading.  

MATTHEW HIRTES: HUFFINGTON POST

Paul has achieved in a concise volume what others have failed in far more voluminous accounts.

JAMES BOWKER

This book is an easy read, giving people a short yet important insight to a man whose bravery still needs to be shared. The Ambulance Man and the Spanish Civil War is a terrific opening for the Forgotten Stories from Spain series for anyone to enjoy. 

CAROLINE ANGUS BAKER: AUTHOR OF THE SECRETS OF SPAIN TRILOGY

Table of Contents

Prologue

PART 1: MALAGA

A City In Fear

When Only Foreigners Wore Ties

Malaga Bites Back

And Still They Did Not Come

The Exodus Of A City

PART 2: BETHUNE

The Arrival Of The Ambulance Man

Life in the City

The End Of The Line

Almeria And The Scar On His Heart

PART 3: DEPARTURE

The Fascist Spy

Canada and China

Epilogue

A Survivor

When History is Rewritten

ADDITIONAL NOTES

REFERENCES

Prologue

Spain is a country of remarkable stories. In the last 150 years it has produced two republics and a dictatorship. It then threw out its monarchy and created a new progressive democracy. It sparked the world's first successful anarchist revolution, quickly followed by a military coup, a civil war, and then a second dictatorship. It then restored its monarchy, restored its democracy and promoted itself as a destination of mass tourism.

Against this turbulent back-drop, the minor stories sometimes get lost in the noise and commotion of the great events and tragedies that dominate a moment in time. 'Forgotten Stories From Spain' is a series of short books that relate these remarkable stories of bravery, humanity and vision that