The Nurse Who Became a Spy

The life story of the working-class woman from Manchester, England, who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars.   Madge Addy left her job and her husband to serve in the Spanish Civil War as a nurse with the Republican medical services. In Spain, she was wounded in a bombing raid, fell in love with another foreign volunteer who became her second husband, was made a prisoner of war, and was the last British nurse to leave Spain, witnessing the horrors of Franco’s Fascist r