Paralysed by the Absence of Danger
Jeremy Harding: Spain, 1937, 24 September 2009
Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War
edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn.
Palgrave, 209 pp., £50, February 2009,978 0 230 52739 3 Show More
edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn.
Palgrave, 209 pp., £50, February 2009,
War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War
by James Neugass.
New Press, 314 pp., £16.99, November 2008,978 1 59558 427 4 Show More
by James Neugass.
New Press, 314 pp., £16.99, November 2008,
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
by Paul Preston.
Constable, 525 pp., £9.99, June 2009,978 1 84529 946 0 Show More
by Paul Preston.
Constable, 525 pp., £9.99, June 2009,
“... Lois and Charles Orr, an inquisitive, left-of-left couple, arrived in Barcelona in the autumn of 1936. Charles was 30, a serious fellow from Michigan; Lois was 19, more or less fresh from Kentucky. They had married earlier in the year and decided on a honeymoon in Europe. In Catalonia, a matter of weeks after Franco’s military uprising against the Second Spanish Republic, they settled happily into a political climate of intrigue and rivalry among the variegated species of anti-Fascists who failed, in the end, to hold the pass: bourgeois democrats and left republicans, socialists, anarchists and Marxists, as well as a host of foreigners, many in tune with the doctrines of the Communist International ... ”
