Spain, the unfinished revolution

Born at Birmingham, Alabama, to a family of vaudeville performers, Landis later travelled throughout the American West working at a variety of jobs. In 1937 he enlisted in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigade in Spain during the civil war, serving as a scout and artillery spotter. He served in the battles of Aragon and Teruel and, before departing Spain, he was able to load his unit's archives onto a ship that left the country.
In 1965 Landis wrote a fantasy novel A World Called Camelot.
In 1967 Landis published his non fiction book The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the result of many years of research and interviews with survivors of the Brigade
In 1972 he published Spain the Unfinished Revolution through Camelot publishing. He was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples by the Soviet Union.