Una Wilson, an Australian, joined the Republican cause in October 1936. She served in hospitals on the Madrid and Aragon fronts. In letters home she recounts both the horrors of war, as well as the determination of the Spanish people that she witnessed to resist Franco and fascism.
"The last time I saw him he strode up to me with a smile, a happy healthy man, and this afternoon he lay there stripped of his clothes, ready for operation, covered with mud, his face lined with suffering, a huge wound in his side with his intestines falling from it. He died under unaesthetic."