Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

Autor: Hochschild, Adam

Marca: Mariner

Edición: Reprint

Número de páginas: 480

Fecha de lanzamiento: 07-03-2017

Detalles: Reseña del editor A New York Times Bestseller &;With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English. A humane and moving book.&; &; ew Republic &;Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild&;s] book so intimate and moving is its human scale.&; &;Dwight Garner, New York Times For three years in the 1930s, the world watched, riveted, as the Spanish Civil War became the battleground in a fight between freedom and fascism that would soon take on global proportions. Confronting a right-wing coup led by Francisco Franco and heavily aided by Hitler and Mussolini, volunteers flooded in to support Spain&;s democratic government. Among them were nearly three thousand Americans, called by their convictions to lend a hand in a brutal conflict their government wanted no part of. In Spain in Our Hearts, Adam Hochschild weaves together the stories of some dozen foreigners to reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war. Among them are a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman on her honeymoon whose experience in revolutionary Barcelona became the high point of her life, a pair of rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the fighting from opposite sides, and a widely admired American couple on the war&;s front lines whose inspiring, heartbreaking love story threads through this account. We still have many lessons to learn from this chapter in history, and Spain in Our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best. &;An unusually well-written narrative, full of telling detail and vignettes that capture great human drama.&; &; Wall Street Journal &;After reading Hochschild&;s book, it&;s impossible to feel anything but admiration &; and awe.&; &; San Francisco Chronicle Críticas A New York Times Bestseller "Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild's] book so intimate and moving is its human scale." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English. A humane and moving book, it is well-paced and meant to be read rather than studied." -- New Republic "Admirable . . . an unusually well-written narrative, full of telling detail and vignettes that capture great human drama." -- Wall Street Journal "A commanding performance. Digging through archives, Hochschild finds characters whose lives . . . pull the war into tight, human-scale focus . . . After reading Hochschild's book, it's impossible to feel anything but admiration--and awe." -- San Francisco Chronicle "The tragic story of the Americans in the doomed Lincoln Brigade . . . comes vividly to life in Adam Hochschild's compelling Spain in Our Hearts, a long-overdue book that explores this long-overlooked conflict." --Los Angeles Times "By assembling a well-chosen set of individual narratives, many about figures who are relatively unknown, [Hochschild] captures why so many people thought the fate of the world might be decided by who won the conflict ... Consistently vivid . . . Captivating." --New York Times Book Review "A vivid and level-headed new history of American participation in the Spanish Civil War." --The New Yorker "Excellent . . . Hochschild captures both the passionate, partisan views of particular combatants and the larger political currents that shaped their experiences. It's a moving and useful investigation into the dangers and promises of idealism." -- Christian Science Monitor "Exemplary . . . Moving and powerful." -- Seattle Times "The book's narrative is driven by Hochschild's deft handling of the personal stories, some heartbreaking, of a half dozen Americans . . . highly engaging . . . A book like Hochschild's keeps their stories and spirit alive." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "A sweeping, suspenseful, and somber chronicle of the Spanish Civil War . . . Makes superb use of diaries and letters

EAN: 9780544947238

Languages: Inglés

Binding: paperback

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