A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through nine American and British characters including Hemingway and George Orwell It was a war between fascism, communism, and democracy that preceeded World War II, and a tale of idealism and a noble cause that failed.
For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're a…
Provides new understanding of Franklin Roosevelt's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, claiming that he was activist and pro-Loyalist.
"David Caute's wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic de…
"The Spanish Civil War was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between the Republicans, who were loyal to the established Spanish Republic, and the Nationalists, a rebel group led by General Francisco Franco. The Nationalists prevailed, and Franco ruled Spain for the next 3…
La guerra civile spagnola: una storia del Novecento
"This is a new and comprehensive analysis of the forces of the Spanish left - interpreted broadly - during the civil war of 1936-9, and the first of its kind for more than thirty years." "The book argues two crucial propositions. First, that the wartime responses (and limitation…
"The mass killing of civilians in incidents of 'collateral damage', especially as a result of air bombardment, represents one of the most emotive and ethically urgent issues of the contemporary world. Many experts see the civil war in Spain (1936-9) as the original site of this …
