Our Fathers Fought Franco Book Launch With Special Guests The Wakes
Join Willy Maley and his fellow contributors Lisa Croft, Jennie Renton and Tam Watters at Townhead Village Hall as they launch their book 'Our Fathers Fought Franco'.
About Our Fathers Fought Franco Book Launch With Special Guests The Wakes
A resonant piece of working class history, this book is a living link to four extraordinary stories. Why did these young men put their lives on the line and go to Spain to fight with the International Brigades? How did they all end up in the same prison cell? And what is their legacy today?
James Maley, George Watters, Donald Renton and Archibald Williams were members of Machine Gun Company No. 2 of the XV International Brigade. This is the first book to focus on a small group of men who, from different starting-points, ended up on the same battleground at Jarama, and then in the same prisons after capture by Franco’s forces.
Their remarkable story is told both in their own words and in the recollections of their sons and daughters, through a prison notebook, newspaper reports, stills cut from newsreels, interviews, anecdotes and memories, with a foreword by Daniel Gray, author of 'Homage to Caledonia: Scotland and the Spanish Civil War'.
'Our Fathers Fought Franco' is a collective biography that promises to add significantly to the understanding of the motives of those who ‘went because their open eyes could see no other way’.
The launch will include a special performance by The Wakes, a Folk'n'Roll band from Glasgow. Their ambition is to make music with a social conscience. Music that matters. Their songs are born from political and social struggle, of protest and of heartache, and of the joys of life. Their song 'These Hands' is about Willy Maley's father and his involvement in the Spanish Civil War.
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