This book, written by Adam Hochschild, the author of King Leopold's Ghost (another book I enjoyed as a teen) is much more of a narrative history, focusing on American members of the Washington-Lincoln Battallion of the International Brigades, as well as medical volunteers and journalists. When I was a teenager, I read Antony Beevor's The Battle for Spain, and I was pleased to find my memory of the subject rush back while reading this book.īeevor's book is definitely the premier source, as far as I am concerned, for a comprehensive and political look at the war. No self-imposed coursework on the rise of fascism is complete without a book on the Spanish Civil War, the only war (as something I read once said) where the history was written by the losers, perhaps because they went on to win the larger war against fascism. "What are you thinking about?" Miss Saeki asks me.
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