Genres: Fiction, Novel
Tag: My Books
Publisher: Luath Press
Publication Year: 2025
Format: Paperback & eBook
Length: 300
ISBN: 9781804251751
1936. Spain erupts in civil war. The Republic forms an International Brigade and calls for volunteers to combat a Nationalist uprising led by General Franco.
After his best friend Jimmy is killed by a police baton on a hunger march to London, Glaswegian Robbie Gillan has a fist fight with the mortician. The police are called and sympathetic nurse Alice Sheridan gives Robbie £5 when he tells her he wants to join the battle in Spain.
Alice’s twin brother Simon argues with his father over Spain and leaves on the night ferry for Paris where the volunteers are gathering. In a knife fight with Franco loyalists, Robbie Gillan saves Simon’s life and the two men, opposites in class and temperament, cross France and climb the Pyrenees to Spain. Alice, drawn by emotions that are not entirely clear to her, soon follows with the Red Cross.
The battle cry of the Spanish Republic was No pasarán. Pasaremos. They shall not pass. We Shall Pass – the defining spirit of this gripping novel that takes us into the heart of war and reveals the enduring power of love, hope and defiance as Robbie and Alice must overcome every obstacle to be together.
Reviews
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A love forged in war. A dream worth dying for.
'We Shall Pass is a sweeping tale of passion, sacrifice and idealism set against the brutal backdrop of the Spanish Civil War. When Robbie Gillan, a working-class Scotsman, joins the International Brigades, he finds more than a cause—he finds Alice, the daughter of a British intelligence officer, and a love that defies class, politics, and the chaos of battle. In the tradition of For Whom the Bell Tolls and Birdsong, Clifford Thurlow’s poignant novel brings to life the forgotten volunteers who fought fascism with nothing but conviction, courage, and each other.'Alfredo Behrens, Atril Press
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'Young idealistic British volunteers to the Spanish Civil War find themselves in a Guernica-like nightmare, an ever-rising body-count. Add a love triangle stretched across the extremes of the English 1930s class system and you have something very powerful.'
Peter York
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'Young idealistic British volunteers to the Spanish Civil War find themselves in a Guernica-like nightmare, an ever-rising body-count. Add a love triangle stretched across the extremes of the English 1930s class system and you have something very powerful.'
Peter York