A Bullet Saved My Life: The Remarkable Adventures of Bob Peters, an Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War - Softcover

Lewis, Greg

9780954890490: A Bullet Saved My Life: The Remarkable Adventures of Bob Peters, an Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954890493 ISBN 13: 9780954890490

Publisher: Warren & Pell Publishing, 2006

A Bullet Saved My Life is the remarkable story of Bob Peters, one of the last surviving veterans of the Spanish Civil War.
Bob left his native Wales to go to Canada during the Depression. He found work on the Great Lakes and also became interested in politics.
Early in 1937 he sailed from New York to France and was smuggled into Spain where he joined the British Battalion of the XV International Brigade.
He went into battle against Franco’s armies at Brunete and was shot in the back while crawling through a trench.
The bullet was too near his spine to be removed. Bob was transferred from the frontline to work as a motorcycle dispatch rider.
Incredibly, the bullet moved with the jarring impact of the rough roads and doctors could eventually cut it out.
As casualties were so high in his former unit, Bob says that if he had stayed on the battlefield he would have been killed.
For 70 years Bob has remained quiet about his experiences but now, for the first time, the events of his life are recorded in A Bullet Saved My Life.
The book features more than thirty photographs and fascinating reproductions of Bob's membership, pay and safe passage documents relating to not only the International Brigades but the Socorro Rojo Internacional and the anarchist CNT union.
It also relates Bob’s World War 2 experiences in Sicily, Italy and Yugoslavia.
It features a foreword by First Minister of Wales Rhodri Morgan and a preface by the late Alun Menai Williams, another International Brigader.

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