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24%OFFPaul Preston - We Saw Spain Die - 9781845299460 - V9781845299460
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We Saw Spain Die

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Description for We Saw Spain Die Paperback. We Saw Spain Die is about the courage and the skill of the men and women who wrote about what was happening in Spain during the Civil War, by the world's leading authority. Num Pages: 544 pages, 8pp B/W. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JW; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 386.

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.

Together with many great and now largely forgotten journalists, they put their lives on the line, discarding professionally dispassionate ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Constable
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845299460
SKU
V9781845299460
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Ref
99-10

About Paul Preston
Paul Preston is regarded as the leading historian of twentieth-century Spain alive today. Among his many works are The Triumph of Democracy in Spain (1986), Franco: A Biography (1993), A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War (1996), Comrades (1999), Doves of War: Four Women in Spain (2002) and Juan Carlos (2004). He is Príncipe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary ... Read more

Reviews for We Saw Spain Die
Excellent...a splendid monument to scholarship. Always absorbing, frequently moving...it fills a crucial gap in the historiography of the Spanish civil war.
The Sunday Times
I cannot commend it enough. The story of those who fought to tell the story, at risk to their own lives and against the natural grain of their readers, is a cracker of a ... Read more

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