Celebrated historian Richard Rhodes explores the Spanish Civil War through the stories of the reporters, writers, artists and doctorswho witnessed it
The 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- ALSO BY RICHARD RHODES
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- PREFACE
- PART ONE: The Overthrown Past
- ONE: News Arrives of the Death of Others
- TWO: Today the Burning City Lights Itself
- THREE: The Hero’s Red Rag Is Laid Across His Eyes
- FOUR: Bombs Falling Like Black Pears
- PART TWO: Dream and Lie of Franco
- FIVE: Fandangos of Shivering Owls
- SIX: A Valley in Spain Called Jarama
- SEVEN: The Old Homestead
- EIGHT: Not Everybody’s Daily Life
- NINE: A Sea of Suffering and Death
- TEN: Cuckoo Idealists
- ELEVEN: Heads Down and Hope
- PART THREE: The Thing That Is Trying to Ruin the World
- TWELVE: Only the Devil Knows
- THIRTEEN: History to the Defeated
- EPILOGUE: The Fall of the Curtain
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Credits
- List of Illustrations
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