"Spain woke me up politically. I rediscovered democracy, the power that can come from people working together when a popular front is not just a manoeuvre but a reality." *** Drawing on his political and fighting experience in the Spanish Civil War, Tom Wintringham wrote the best-seller New Ways of War - 'a do-it-yourself guide to killing people,' but also a highly subversive call for a socialist revolution. Wintringham called for 'a People's war' and the phrase stuck. Recalling the English Civil War, he likened the Home Guard he trained in guerrilla warfare to the New Model Army, and later he helped found the Common Wealth Party, a political party in England that was more radical in some ways than Labour. His finest hour was in 1940, when he inspired his countrymen to resist invasion. After gaining exclusive access to the Wintringham archive, now in the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives at King's College, London, historian Hugh Purcell published a biography of this 'uniquely...

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