John Sommerfield (25 June 1908 – 13 August 1991) was a British writer and left-wing activist known for his influential novel May Day, which fictionalised...
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Sommerfield is the surname of the following people: Diane Sommerfield (1949–2001), American actress John Sommerfield (1908–1991), British writer and activist...
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Chronology; Sommerfield 1977, p. 86. Sommerfield 1977, p. 86. Sommerfield 1977, pp. 86–87, 140. Sommerfield 1977, p. 87. Sommerfield 1977, p. 93. Sommerfield 1977...
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a 1920 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald May Day, a 1936 novel by John Sommerfield Mayday (novel), a 1979 novel by Tom Block and Nelson DeMille "Mayday"...
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from the original on 15 December 2022. Retrieved 15 December 2022. Sommerfield, John (1937). Volunteer in Spain. London: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd. Wintringham...
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he recruited twenty-one British volunteers, including Bernard Knox, John Sommerfield, Chris Thorneycroft and Griffin Maclaurin. With this group he travelled...
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edition, 2015) PUSH (Anthology, East London Press, 2014) May Day by John Sommerfield (London Classics, 2010) Night and the City by Gerald Kersh (London...
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Wythenshawe Derek Simpson Cliff Slaughter Sue Slipman John Maynard Smith Michael John Smith John Sommerfield Ken Sprague Philip Spratt Hedi Stadlen Billy Strachan...
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1902) August 1 – Yusuf Idris, Egyptian writer (born 1927) August 13 – John Sommerfield, English communist writer (born 1908) August 17 – Terence Kilmartin...
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30 hours in the life of people in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was directed by John Eldridge, produced by Paul Fletcher for Greenpark Productions and sponsored...
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the merchant navy include, James Hanley, Jim Phelan, George Garrett, John Sommerfield (They Die Young (1930),), Liam O'Flaherty and B. Traven. Writing about...
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Raine, English poet, scholar, and translator (died 2003) June 25 – John Sommerfield, English communist writer (died 1991) June 27 – João Guimarães Rosa...
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Johandi 2019, p. 72-73. Sommerfield 1982, p. 22. Beaulieu 2018, p. 71. Sommerfield 1987, p. 363. Sommerfield 1982, p. 27. Sommerfield 1987, p. 363-364. Lambert...
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merchant navy, including James Hanley, Jim Phelan, George Garrett, and John Sommerfield. Liverpool-Irish writer James Hanley wrote a number of works based...
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affair in The Imprinted with 'John Rackstraw' (based on John Cornford, a young Cambridge Communist with whom Sommerfield fought in Spain). Doyle, Rachel...
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in Spain to aid the International Brigades. Humphrey (Hugh) Slater John Sommerfield Manfred Stern Karol Świerczewski Asim Vokshi Alec Wainman- Yorkshire...
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authors Gerald Kersh, James Curtis, Robert Westerby, Simon Blumenfeld, John Sommerfield and Alan Sillitoe were republished. In 2009 "Gypsy Joe: Bareknuckle...
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a 1949 British romantic comedy film directed by Ralph Smart and starring John McCallum, Honor Blackman and Patrick Holt, with art direction by George Provis...
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Intellectuals". In Rodden, John (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-67507-9. Rodden, John, ed. (2007). The...
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August – Edward George Bowen, CBE, physicist (born 1911) 13 August – John Sommerfield, writer and left-wing activist (born 1908) 17 August – Lorna Hill,...
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Rose Sommerfield (1874–1952) was an American teacher, activist, and social worker. She helped to develop the first home for Jewish working girls in the...
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Bernard Knox (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined alongside John Cornford, Tom Wintringham, John Sommerfield and Jan Kurzke. He served in the United States Army...
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recall building barricades of books. According to the young volunteer John Sommerfield, volumes of Hindu metaphysics and German philosophy of the early nineteenth...
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Emily Sommerfield, John Kunschner". The New York Times. October 6, 2002. "Barrie Sommerfield son of Edgar and Marjorie (Frank) Sommerfield, passed peacefully...
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affair in The Imprinted with 'John Rackstraw' (based on John Cornford, a young Cambridge Communist with whom Sommerfield fought in Spain). Doyle, Rachel...
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My life and History. Alfred A. Knopf. New York, 1939. Translated by John Sommerfield Die Pflege der Kunst in Österreich 1848–1898. Dekorative Kunst und...
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Brigades and fought in defence of Madrid, alongside John Cornford, Bernard Knox and John Sommerfield. Kate followed him out to Spain, working first as a...
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Snelling, 64, American businessman and politician, heart attack. John Sommerfield, 83, British writer and left-wing activist. Kazuo Yamada, 78, Japanese...
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destruction were gathered from brigade members who fought in the war, like John Sommerfield, Dan Kurzman, Bernard Knox, and writers like Marta Torres Santo Domingo...
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1936, where his unit, which also included Cornford, Knox and writer John Sommerfield, was stationed on the front line close to the Philosophy and Letters...
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