International Brigade
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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But Mindaugas Lietuvninkas, a volunteer sniper with Ukraine's International Brigade, has other motivations for helping the war effort.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2023
Guha calls them “rebels” and likens them to the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, but this wrong-foots the reader since no soldiering awaited these travelers to India.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
The former commander of the British battalion of the International Brigade, Tom Wintringham, approached the government with plans for a home guard.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2020
‘I volunteered for the International Brigade to fight against Franco,” the anarchic British comedian Alexei Sayle once quipped.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2015
It was on the stationery of the International Brigade Association in London, dated January, 1938.
From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan
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