Episode 12: “Mine Were of Trouble” by Peter Kemp

Hank and Bindu investigate a fascinating memoir of a British volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, fighting for the rebel Nationalist cause. Peter Kemp was an Englishman who went to Spain in 1936 and using his former military training rose through the ranks to become an officer, first in the Carlist Requetés and then in the elite Spanish Foreign Legion. Peter Kemp would go on to serve throughout the Spanish Civil War, being wounded three times and earning a number of medals. An adventurer through and through, Kemp would go onto serve in the Second World War and beyond. Hank and Bindu explore this lesser-known but brutal war in this lost classic of a military memoir.