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- ↑ Interview with The Clapton Press, International Brigade Memorial Trust, 26 August 2021.
- ↑ Many Are Blissfully Unaware . . . , Interview by Sebastiaan Faber, The Volunteer, 14 August 2021.
- ↑ Programa Sur
- ↑ “The True Adventure of a 19 year old North American Fighting in the Cuban Revolution with Fidel Castro” review by Robert Harris in The Morning Star.
- ↑ The Forgotten Memoir of the Spanish Civil War review by Richard Lance Keeble, The Orwell Society.
- ↑ Never More Alive: Kate Mangan’s Spanish Memoir, article by Paul Preston, The Volunteer, February 2021.
- ↑ Jan Kurzke’s Spanish Civil War Memoir: A Soldier’s Tale, article by Richard Baxell, Alba Volunteer, 08 Jan 2021.
- ↑ The Morning Star, 03 Sep 2020
- ↑ The Struggles review by Michael Eaude, The Times Literary Supplement, 14 May 2021.
- ↑ Perfect Bricks - Two Post Brits Observe a Cruel Civil War, review by Roger Golland, OBE, La Revista 252, British Spanish Society, 13 Nov 2020.
- ↑ Buchanan on Jackson, ‘British Women and the Spanish Civil War’ by Tom Buchanan, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, Sep 2003.
- ↑ The Worthing Herald Reporter who fought Fascism, review by Phil Hewitt, The Worthing Herald, 19 Aug 2021.
- ↑ Book Review: Boadilla by Esmond Romilly, review by Caroline Angus, 22 Jan 2017.
- ↑ Spanish Portrait, review by Google Books, 2019.
- ↑ Brutal Tales by Ernesto Herrera, translated by Kathryn Phillips-Miles & Simon Deefholts, "The Clapton Press". 2022. ISBN 978-1-913693-12-1
- ↑ The Yocci Well, article by Kathryn Phillips-Miles, Institute of Modern Languages Research, University of London, 02 Jul 2020.
- ↑ Marguerite Reilly, review by GoodReads, 2021.