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À la manière d'un roman, La Chevauchée anonyme évoque les destinées aventureuses de ceux que l'on a quelquefois nommés les « révolutionnaires du troisième camp ». La plupart n'avaient pas attendu la déclaration de guerre, en 1939, pour s'opposer au fascisme dans leur pays d'origine, qu'ils fussent antifascistes italiens, allemands ou espagnols, vérifiant au péril de leur vie cette évidence soulignée par Howard Zinn : « Les Alliés ne sont pas entrés en guerre par pure compassion pour les victimes du fascisme. Ils ne déclarèrent pas la guerre au Japon quand celui-ci massacra les Chinois de Nankin, ni à Franco quand il s'en prit à la démocratie espagnole, ni à Hitler lorsqu'il expédia les Juifs et les opposants dans les camps de concentration. Ils ne tentèrent même pas de sauver les Juifs d'une mort certaine pendant la guerre. Ils n'entrèrent en guerre que quand leur propre domination fut menacée. » Cette réédition sera l'occasion de rappeler que ce que l'on présente toujours comme une « guerre juste » se caractérise en fait par un degré de barbarie jamais atteint. Et qu'aucune des parties n'est exempte de responsabilités. Aux réalistes de tout poil, toujours prompts à rallier le camp des vainqueurs et à justifier l'injustifiable, on nous permettra de préférer les personnages de ce livre qui, envers et contre tout, tentèrent de maintenir vivante l'espérance d'un monde meilleur dans les circonstances les plus difficiles qui soient.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Anarchists

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"When the Wehrmacht rolled into the Soviet Union in World War II, it got more than it bargained for. Notwithstanding the Red Army’s retreat, Soviet citizens fought fiercely against German occupiers, engaging in raids, sabotage, and intelligence gathering—largely without any oversight from Stalin and his iron-fisted rule.Kenneth Slepyan provides an enlightening social and political history of the Soviet partisan movement, a people’s army of irregulars fighting behind enemy lines. These insurgents included not only civilians—many of them women—but also stranded Red Army soldiers, national minorities, and even former collaborators. While others have documented the military contributions of the movement, Slepyan is the first to describe it as a social phenomenon and to reveal how its members were both challenged and transformed by the crucible of war.By tracing the movement’s origins, internal squabbles, and evolution throughout the war, Slepyan shows that people who suddenly had the autonomy to act on their own came to rethink the Stalinist regime. He assesses how partisan initiative and self-reliance competed with and countered the demands of state control and how social identities influenced relations among partisans, as well as between partisans and Soviet authorities.Slepyan has tapped newly opened Soviet archives, as well as wartime radio broadcasts and Communist Party publications and memoirs, to depict the partisans as agents actively pursuing their own agendas. His book gives us a picture of their day-to-day struggle that was previously unknown to all but those few who personally survived the experience, paying special attention to questions of nationality, ethnicity, and gender to illuminate the sociopolitical relations within this diverse group. Through these varied accounts, he demonstrates that Soviet citizens reinterpreted Stalinism and the Soviet experience in the context of total war.Offering numerous fresh insights into the partisans’ multifaceted relationship with the state, Slepyan’s book reveals the ways in which the war simultaneously reinforced and undermined both Stalinism and the Soviet system. Ultimately, his study rescues the Soviet partisans from obscurity to depict the complexity of their lives and underscore their vital contributions to the defense of their homeland."

World War, 1939-1945 --- Underground movements --- Soviet Union --- History

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World War (1939-1945) --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Collaborationists --- Pétain, Philippe, --- Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France) --- France --- History

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Moscow, Battle of, Moscow, Russia, 1941-1942. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Campaigns

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Written with passion and intelligence, the letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in World War II express the raw idealism of anti-fascist soldiers who experienced the war in boot camps, cockpits, and foxholes, but never lost sight of the great global issues at stake.When the United States entered World War II on December 7, 1941, only one group of American soldiers had already confronted the fascist enemy on the battlefield: the U.S. veterans of the Lincoln Brigade, a volunteer army of about 2,800 men and women who had enlisted to defend the Spanish Republic from military rebels during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). They fought on the losing side.After Pearl Harbor, Lincoln Brigade veterans enthusiastically joined the U.S. Army, welcoming this second chance to fight against fascism. However, the Lincoln recruits soon encountered suspicious military leaders who questioned their patriotism and denied them promotions and overseas assignments, foreshadowing the political persecution of the postwar Red Scare. African American veterans who fought in fully integrated units in Spain, faced second-class treatment in America's Jim Crow army. Nevertheless, the Lincolns served with distinction in every theater of the war and won a disproportionate number of medals for courage, dedication, and sacrifice.The 154 letters in this volume, selected from thousands held in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives at NYU's Tamiment Library, provide a new and unique perspective on aspects of World War II.

Spain --- United states --- World war, 1939-1945 --- History --- Political science --- Biography & autobiography