Bloody
Michael Church, 9 October 1986
The Children of the Souls: A Tragedy of the First World War
by Jeanne Mackenzie.
Chatto, 276 pp., £14.95, June 1986,9780701128470 Show More
by Jeanne Mackenzie.
Chatto, 276 pp., £14.95, June 1986,
Voices from the Spanish Civil War: Personal Recollections of Scottish Volunteers in Republican Spain 1936-39
edited by Ian MacDougall, by Victor Kiernan.
Polygon, 369 pp., £9.95, July 1986,0 948275 19 7 Show More
edited by Ian MacDougall, by Victor Kiernan.
Polygon, 369 pp., £9.95, July 1986,
The Shallow Grave: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
by Walter Gregory, edited by David Morris and Anthony Peters.
Gollancz, 183 pp., £10.95, June 1986,0 575 03790 3 Show More
by Walter Gregory, edited by David Morris and Anthony Peters.
Gollancz, 183 pp., £10.95, June 1986,
Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War
edited by Valentine Cunningham.
Oxford, 388 pp., £15, July 1986,0 19 212258 4 Show More
edited by Valentine Cunningham.
Oxford, 388 pp., £15, July 1986,
The Spanish Civil War 1936-39
by Paul Preston.
Weidenfeld, 184 pp., £10.95, June 1986,0 297 78891 4 Show More
by Paul Preston.
Weidenfeld, 184 pp., £10.95, June 1986,
Images of the Spanish Civil War
by Raymond Carr.
Allen and Unwin, 192 pp., £14.95, July 1986,0 04 940089 4 Show More
by Raymond Carr.
Allen and Unwin, 192 pp., £14.95, July 1986,
“... Extracts from Homage to Catalonia stand out like beacons, as do the extracts from the sociologist Franz Borkenau’s comparably scrupulous memoir The Spanish Cockpit. This was the book which Orwell was commissioned to review by the New Statesman, and this was the review which Kingsley Martin spiked because ‘it too far controverts the political policy ... ”
