George Wheeler – Hero of Spain

I've just heard of the sad death of George Wheeler, one of more than two thousand brave British men who disobeyed their government and crossed the Pyrenees to fight the Fascist rebels in the Spanish Civil War. There are very few of these heroes still living.

George Wheeler was the author of "To Make the People Smile Again: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War", regarded as one of the finest English memoirs to emerge from the disastrous war. The Guardian published a profile on him a few years back.

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