We Saw Spain Die
by Paul Preston
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The war in Spain and those who wrote at first hand of its horrors. From 1936 to 1939 the eyes of the world were fixed on the devastating Spanish conflict that drew both professional war correspondents and great writers. Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, Martha Gellhorn, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Kim Philby, George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, Cyril Connolly, André Malraux, Antoine de Saint Exupéry and others wrote eloquently about the horrors they saw at first hand. show more Together with many great and now largely forgotten journalists, they put their lives on the line, discarding professionally dispassionate approaches and keenly espousing the cause of the partisans. Facing censorship, they fought to expose the complacency with which the decision-makers of the West were appeasing Hitler and Mussolini. Many campaigned for the lifting of non-intervention, revealing the extent to which the Spanish Republic had been betrayed. Peter Preston's exhilarating account illuminates the moment when war correspondence came of age. show lessTags
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Fascinating account of the men and women who reported on the Spanish Civil War. Heroic idealists, Soviet spies, world-famed writers like Hemingway, supporters of fascism and communism...they flocked to Spain to report the war as they saw it.
Magnífico libro que pone sobre la mesa temas como la labor de los periodistas extranjeros en la Guerra civil, la propaganda o el control de la información por parte de los gobiernos. Pero, sobre todo, nos habla de unos profesionales que no dudaron en transmitir el horror que sufrieron los españoles por parte de los militares golpistas y las potencias fascistas que les apoyaron con el beneplácito del resto de países.
May 18, 2011Spanish
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Paul Preston, the leading historian of twentieth-century Spain, tells this shocking story for the first time in English. It is a harrowing talc of how the flawed decisions of politicians can so easily and avoidably lead to tragedy.
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- Original title
- We saw Spain die
- People/Characters*
- Ernest Hemingway; Martha Gellhorn; John Dos Passos; Mijail Koltsov; Arthur Koestler; George Orwell (show all 7); Kim Philby
- Important places
- Spain
- Important events
- Spanish Civil War (1936 | 1939)
- First words*
- La herida que no cicatrizará
- Quotations*
- Siendo, pues, ainsí, que las armas requieren espíritu como las letras, veamos ahora cuál de los dos espíritus, el del letrado o el del guerrero, trabaja más (Miguel de Cervantes)
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- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 070.449946081 — Computer science, information & general works News media, journalism & publishing Documentary media, educational media, news media; journalism; publishing Journalism Special subjects: departments and editors By Subject Biography And History
- LCC
- DP269.8 .J68 .P74 — 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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- Catalan, English, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
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