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

from Stbalbach

Spain in Our Hearts declares up front it is not a history of the Spanish Civil War. Rather it is a series of vignettes about various Americans who went to fight with the International Brigades. The material is culled from period newspapers and private diaries. The people range from obscure teenag...

from EricCostello

In general, an overview of the course of the Spanish Civil War, with an emphasis on the American volunteers who fought for the leftist Spanish Republic. The author is clearly writing from a point of view that is sympathetic to the left (he talks about "social justice" in his introduction), though...

from nmele

I first got interested in George Orwell when I read his "Homage to Catalonia", a book I have returned to many times. I always wondered about the other international volunteers who went to Spain to fight for the Republic. Adam Hochschild's meticulous research has satisfied a good deal of that curi...

from nicholasjjordan

This is one of those (many) eras of world history about which I knew less than the Wikipedia entry could tell me. To hear of how Spain's civil war fits into European history, at least back deep into the 19th century, and forward to the mid 1990s (and even in the recent global recession) was semi-...

from

An incredibly slanted version of the Spanish Civil War (SCW). I expected better perhaps from a guy who has somewhat of a 'reputation'. But this is a history wrapped inside a viewpoint that is never far from the surface. It starts early on page xix of the forward...the 'Soviet Union, whose governm...