Spain in our hearts : Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
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Spain in our hearts : Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Macmillan, 2016
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Bibliography: p. [410]-419
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From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that rapidly advancing fascism must be halted in Spain; if not there, where? More than 35,000 volunteers from dozens of other countries went to help defend the Spanish Republic.
Adam Hochschild, the acclaimed author of King Leopold's Ghost, evokes this tumultuous period mainly through the lives of Americans involved in the war. A few are famous, such as Ernest Hemingway, but others are less familiar. They include a nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman, a fiery leftist who came to wartime Spain on her honeymoon; a young man who ran away from his Pennsylvania college and became the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid; and a swashbuckling Texas oilman who covertly violated US law and sold Generalissimo Francisco Franco most of the fuel for his army. Two New York Times reporters, fierce rivals, covered the war from opposite sides, with opposite sympathies. There are Britons in Hochschild's cast of characters as well: one, a London sculptor, fought with the American battalion; another, who had just gone down from Cambridge, joined Franco's army and found himself fighting against the Americans; and a third is someone whose experience of combat in Spain had a profound effect on his life, George Orwell.
Table of Contents
Section - i: List of Maps
Section - ii: Author's Note
Introduction - iii: Prologue: Far from Home
Chapter - 1: Chasing Moneychangers from the Temple
Chapter - 2: Promised Land, Black Wings
Chapter - 3: "Those Who Do Not Think as We Do"
Chapter - 4: A New Heaven and Earth
Chapter - 5: "I Will Destroy Madrid"
Chapter - 6: "Don't Try to Catch Me"
Chapter - 7: Rifles from the 1860s
Chapter - 8: Over the Mountains
Chapter - 9: Civil War at the Times
Chapter - 10: The Man Who Loved Dictators
Chapter - 11: Devil's Bargain
Chapter - 12: "I Don't Think I Would Write about That If I Were You"
Chapter - 13: "As Good a Method of Getting Married as Any Other"
Chapter - 14: Texaco Goes to War
Chapter - 15: "In My Book You'll Be an American"
Chapter - 16: "A Letter to My Novia"
Chapter - 17: "Only a Few Grains of Sand Left in the Hourglass"
Chapter - 18: At the River's Edge
Chapter - 19: A Change of Heart?
Chapter - 20: Gambling for Time
Chapter - 21: The Taste of Tears
Chapter - 22: Kaddish
Acknowledgements - iv: Acknowledgements
Section - iv: Notes
Section - v: Bibliography
Section - vi: Photo Credits
Index - vii: Index
Acknowledgements - viii: Permissions Acknowledgements
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