Hell and Good Company
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Hell and Good Company

The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Hell and Good Company

The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made

About this book

Celebrated historian Richard Rhodes explores the Spanish Civil War through the stories of the reporters, writers, artists and doctorswho witnessed itThe Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) engaged an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, to name only a few. The idealism of the cause - defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war - and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia. Paralleling the outpouring of writing and art, the war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology. So many different countries participated directly or indirectly in the war that Time magazine called it the 'Little World War'; Spain served in those years as a proving ground for the devastating technologies of World War II, and for the entire 20th century.

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Information

Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781471126185
eBook ISBN
9781471126192
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. ALSO BY RICHARD RHODES
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication page
  7. Contents
  8. PREFACE
  9. PART ONE: The Overthrown Past
  10. ONE: News Arrives of the Death of Others
  11. TWO: Today the Burning City Lights Itself
  12. THREE: The Hero’s Red Rag Is Laid Across His Eyes
  13. FOUR: Bombs Falling Like Black Pears
  14. PART TWO: Dream and Lie of Franco
  15. FIVE: Fandangos of Shivering Owls
  16. SIX: A Valley in Spain Called Jarama
  17. SEVEN: The Old Homestead
  18. EIGHT: Not Everybody’s Daily Life
  19. NINE: A Sea of Suffering and Death
  20. TEN: Cuckoo Idealists
  21. ELEVEN: Heads Down and Hope
  22. PART THREE: The Thing That Is Trying to Ruin the World
  23. TWELVE: Only the Devil Knows
  24. THIRTEEN: History to the Defeated
  25. EPILOGUE: The Fall of the Curtain
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. Notes
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index
  30. Credits
  31. List of Illustrations