The Basque Children in Britain: Committees, colonies and concerts

by Yolanda Powell

The Basque Children in Britain tells how and why nearly 4,000 Basque children were evacuated from the terrors of the Spanish Civil War to the relative calm of a summer camp in the south of England. They arrived at Southampton Water on 22 May 1937, barely a month after the bombing of Guernica, which so influenced British public opinion that the British government had eventually agreed to the demands of the National Joint Committee for Spanish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1999922425
• ISBN13: 9781999922429
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Iolanthe Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"