Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
by Ronald Fraser
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Traversing a scarred land that has endured everything and forgotten nothing, historian Ronald Fraser records the memories of survivors in this remarkable oral history. . . No other volume on the Spanish Civil War can surpass the power of this one. ' TIME We discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. The atmosphere of events is vividly recaptured. And though the show more lived experience of the participants is revealed the uniquely tragic essence of all civil war. 'Fascinating and brilliantly unorthodox. ' Hugh Thomas, author of THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO. show lessTags
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This has to be one of the key books for anyone studying the Spanish Civil War. Fraser concentrates on how the war affected ordinary people. In terms of background research, outside of Spain itself, he is perhaps the leading authority. He writes well, too.
Unique story telling of history. Also a great philosophical or political thought book.
‘Recuérdalo tú y recuérdalo a otros’, el gran libro para entender la Guerra Civil, Guillermo Altares, El País 16.02.2024: https://elpais.com/cultura/2023-02-16/recuerdalo-tu-y-recuerdalo-a-otros-el-gran...
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Ronald Fraser is the leading oral historian of twentieth-century Spain. He is the author of several books, including. In Search of a Past, Blood of Spain and Napoleon's Cursed War.
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- Alternate titles
- Recuérdalo tú y recuérdalo a otros : historia oral de la guerra civil española
- Original publication date
- 1979
- Important places*
- España
- Important events
- Spanish Civil War (1936 | 1939)
- Epigraph
- History proceeds in such a way that the final result always arises from conflicts between many individual wills, and every one of them is in turn made into what it is by a host of particular conditions of life. Thus there are... (show all) innumerable intersecting forces, an infinite series of parallelograms of forces, which give rise to one resultant - the historical event. This may in its turn again be regarded as the product of a power which operates as a whole unconsciously and without volition. For what each individual wills is obstructed by evenyone else and what emerges is something that no one intended. Engels to Joseph Bloch, London, September 1890
Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
/In the books you will find the names of kings./Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?/And Babylon, many times demolished/Who raised it up so many times? in what houses/Of gold-glitte... (show all)ring Lima did the builders live?/Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished/Did the masons go?.../So may reports/So many questions. -Questions from a Worker who Reads (Bertolt Brecht) - Dedication
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- First words
- The Spanish Civil War of 1936-9 was the fourth (some will say the fifth) in a century.
- Blurbers
- Terkel, Studs; Gott, Richard
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 946.081 — History & geography History of Europe Spain & Portugal Spain Second Republic; Dictatorship; Juan Carlos I; Felipe VI 1931- Second Republic; Spanish Civil War
- LCC
- DP269.9 .F73 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Spain – Portugal History of Spain History By period Modern Spain, 1479/1516- 20th century. 1886- Second Republic, 1931-1939 Civil War, 1936-1939
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- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- ASINs
- 3
