Books On The Spanish Civil War
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He was a correspondent who was in Spain during the war. But he actually first went over in 1930 as a very young man. He was one of the few correspondents during the Spanish Civil War who really knew Spain backwards. He was there throughout the experience of the Second Republic and got to know quite a few politicians. There were many great correspondents in Spain during the civil war but only Henry Buckley and the American Jay Allen were in Spain from before the foundation of the republic. They had been there since around 1930, so they knew the country very well.
Many of the articles that Buckley wrote during the war are difficult to track down because he was an agency reporter. A lot came out in The Daily Telegraph but they are almost all without a by-line. During the war he tended to move around a lot. He became very friendly with Hemingway, when he arrived in April 1937. Herbert Matthew, another great correspondent, and Robert Capa, the great photographer, were also part of his group. And actually Buckley himself was quite a significant photographer and his photos of the civil war are very important.
It is really one of the great books about the Spanish Civil War, which is beautifully written, and written by someone who knew all the major protagonists and does wonderful pen portraits of them. But he also felt very deeply about the big issues. It is a book that is ultimately very sympathetic to the republic, and rightly so, in my view.
Yes. The author Herbert Southworth was always my inspiration. I think he probably knew more about the Spanish Civil War than any man who has ever lived. He was an absolutely extraordinary man who was born in Canton, a tiny Oklahoma town, in 1908. He worked in copper mines in Arizona in the 1920s. I think he was one of the few Anglo-Saxons to do so because most of the workers were Mexicans and that is how he learnt his Spanish. Initially he was self-educated but he managed to work his way through university in Arizona. Always fascinated by books, he went to Washington and got a job in the Library of Congress. When the Spanish Civil War broke out he became fascinated by the Spanish Republic and he started to review books that were coming out. And lots of books did come out almost immediately, as instant think-pieces from both sides. His reviews were noticed by the Spanish Republican ambassador in Washington, who invited him, with Jay Allen, to form a kind of unofficial office of information. And through that he was reading everything they could lay their hands on about what was going on in Spain.
After the civil war he and Jay Allen continued trying to help Spanish refugees and when American finally entered World War II, Herbert volunteered and ended up in North Africa. After the war he bought a pile of army surplus radio equipment and created Radio Tangier and stayed on waiting for the day when Franco would fall. During that time he befriended lots of Spanish Republicans. He also became a great expert on the Falangists as well and through endless communication with them came to be recognised as an expert by them as well.
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The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans.
From 1936 to 1939, Spain was divided by an explosive civil war. In the wake of a military coup staged by the right-leaning Nationalist faction, General Francisco Franco led the party in a revolt against the left-leaning Republicans who were ruling over the newly-established Spanish Republic. This staggering confrontation was viewed from various perspectives in the global arena, ranging from a class struggle to a battle between fascism and communism.
One thing is certain: the repercussions of this violent conflict lasted decades beyond the end of the war itself. Up to 200,000 people were killed both in battle and in the years of brutal repression that followed the Nationalist victory. The war also paved the way for Franco's 39-year dictatorship, an era characterized by both authoritarianism and economic prosperity. If you're looking to learn more about this period in history, here are eight illuminating Spanish Civil war books that examine the conflict from every angle.
In response to Thomas's book, Franco's then minister of information, Manuel Fraga, set up an official centre for civil war studies to promote the regime's official historiography. So successful was the book that even Franco was regularly asked to comment on statements in it.[16]
An account of the Spanish civil war which portrays the struggles of the war, as well as discussing the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, the emergence of brutal dictatorship on the nationalist side and the extent to which the Spanish war prefigured World War II.
The comic or graphic novel is a way of artistic expression that unites in a very peculiar and idiosyncratic way all sorts of stories in which all kinds of genres fit and which is aimed at all types of audience. A fundamental characteristic of comic books is their ability to represent historical events. Specifically in the case of the Spanish Civil War, there are two recent studies: El cómic sobre la Guerra Civil española (The comic about the Civil War) by Michel Matly and Las caras de la Guerra (The faces of war) by Tomás Ortega, that show the importance that this conflict has had in the comic book not only nowadays, but also during the years of the conflict itself. The aim of this seminar is to show how the comic book has played the role of a historian of the Spanish Civil War all throughout history, from the comic books that were published during the conflict to the most recent works that try to recover the historical memory. This analysis will be carried out as a panel with some of the most relevant experts in comic book studies in Spain. The program of the seminar will be completed with a case study based on the capacity of the comic to adapt literary works, focusing in the works of Paul Preston, La Guerra Civil Española (The Spanish Civil War) and La Muerte de Guernica (The Death of the Guernica) and Soldados de Salamina adapted by José Pablo García.
Using a rich variety of sources such as official newsreels, school textbooks, the work of contemporary historians, memoirs, official documents, legislation, and monuments, this book explores how the historical memory of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) influenced the transition to democracy in Spain after Franco's death in 1975. The author traces the development of official discourse on the War throughout the Franco period and describes the régime's attempts to achieve political legitimacy. Although there was no universal consensus regarding the events of the Civil War, general agreement did exist concerning the main lesson which should be drawn from it: never again should Spaniards become embroiled in a fratricidal conflict.
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Review Source: Monthly ReviewBook Author: Miguel FergusonSometime prior to my eighth birthday, my great-grandfather, the poet, writer, and anthologist William Stanley Braithwaite, bought me my first comic book. For reasons that I have long since forgotten, we walked to a pharmacy on the corner of Edgecombe Avenue and St. Nicholas Place in Harlem. While there, I was looking over the comic books and chose The Illustrated Story of the Coast Guard as the one that I wanted. My great-grandfather asked no questions and purchased it for me. I still have it somewhere in my house.
Hemingway is one of the people written about by today's guest, Adam Hochschild, in his book \"Spain In Our Hearts: Americans In The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.\" It's now out in paperback. Most of the people he writes about fought on the side of democracy, but some supported Franco, including the CEO of Texaco, who supplied the fascists with the fuel they needed for their trucks and bombers. Hochschild's other books include \"To End All Wars,\" about World War I. Terry Gross spoke with him last year.
GROSS: So after the Civil War started, when the military coup was trying to take over the whole country and had already taken over part of it, there were people from different countries around the world who wanted to join forces with the democracy side, the Republicans, including people from the United States. And the American brigade in the Spanish Civil War was called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. What attracted Americans to fight in another country's civil war
HOCHSCHILD: Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain, and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who've ever joined somebody else's civil war. I think they were primarily people who were deeply alarmed by the menace of fascism. They saw this on the horizon. I quote one volunteer, Maury Colow of New York, who said, \"for us it was never Franco, it was always Hitler.\" 153554b96e