"Two thousand Italian partisans took the city of Alba on October 10, 1944, and two hundred lost it to the Fascists on November 2. Among the bedraggled fighters in this historic twenty-three-day siege was Beppe Fenoglio. He later made his debut as a writer with The Twenty-three D…
"There are few individuals in modern Spanish history that have been as thoroughly mythologized as José Antonio Primo de Rivera, a leading figure in the Spanish Civil War who was executed by the Republicans in 1936 and celebrated as a martyr following the victory of the Falangist…
"There are few individuals in modern Spanish history that have been as thoroughly mythologized as José Antonio Primo de Rivera, a leading figure in the Spanish Civil War who was executed by the Republicans in 1936 and celebrated as a martyr following the victory of the Falangist…
"There are few individuals in modern Spanish history that have been as thoroughly mythologized as José Antonio Primo de Rivera, a leading figure in the Spanish Civil War who was executed by the Republicans in 1936 and celebrated as a martyr following the victory of the Falangist…
Biography and analysis of Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer of novels, short stories, and political essays whose life and works illustrate the malaise common among European youth after World War I.
The first authoritative account of a well-kept secret: the British Fifth Column and its activities during the Second World War.