Hell and good company : the Spanish Civil War and the world it made / Richard Rhodes.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781451696219
- ISBN: 1451696213
- Physical Description: xviii, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The overthrown past. News arrives of the deaths of others ; Today the burning city lights itself ; The hero's red flag is laid across his eyes ; Bombs falling like black pears -- Dream and lie of Franco. Fandangos of shivering owls ; A valley in Spain called Jarama ; The old homestead ; Not everybody's daily life ; A sea of suffering and death ; Cuckoo idealists ; Heads down and hope -- The thing that is trying to ruin the world. Only the Devil knows ; History to the defeated -- The fall of the curtain. |
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Subject: | Spain > History > Civil War, 1936-1939. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Erlanger Branch | 946.081 R477h 2015 (Text) | 33126020174953 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
- Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2014 September #1
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Rhodes takes on the Spanish civil war, presented as a turning point that presaged how military conflict would roll out for the remainder of the 20th century. New weapons and new military strategies emerged, as did significant advances in battlefield surgery. This account emphasizes the perspective of doctors and nurses, as well as the artists and writers who famously bore witness, from Pablo Picasso to Ernest Hemingway to Martha Gellhorn.
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Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) recounts the human and medical sides of the Spanish Civil War (1936â9). Pitting the Spanish Republic against a right-wing military revolt, the war drew in tens of thousands of antifascist international volunteers, plus regular forces from fascist Germany and Italy. But this book sidelines familiar politics in favor of human stories. Some of the narratives are whimsicalâa celebrated author ducking cannon fire to hand out grapefruit or British nurses bathing in a river and scandalizing the villagers. Other accounts are grievous, such as 4,000 Basque children evacuated to Britain as Nazi bombers blitzed their cities. Still others tell of blood banks, transfusions, and additional medical innovations by valiant foreign doctors, several of whom returned to their homelands only to face persecution as "premature anti-Fascists." Such anecdotes may well inspire readers to pick up a more substantial analysis, such as Hugh Thomas's classic Spanish Civil War or George Orwell's autobiographical Homage to Catalonia, upon which Rhodes draws. VERDICT Although subject experts should look elsewhere for a cohesive study or original research, readers unfamiliar with the Spanish Civil War will discover the tragicomic experiences and human costs of Europe's first war against fascism. [See Prepub Alert, 8/4/14.]âMichael Rodriguez, Hodges Univ. Lib., Naples, FL
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