| Descript |
xxi, 438 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-419) and index |
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Far from home -- Chasing moneychangers from the temple -- Promised land, black wings -- "Those who do not think as we do" -- A new heaven and Earth -- "I will destroy Madrid" -- "Don't try to catch me" -- Rifles from the 1860s -- Over the mountains -- Civil War at the 'Times' -- The man who loved dictators -- Devil's bargain -- "I don't think I would write about that if I were you" -- "As good a method of getting married as any other" -- Texaco goes to war -- "In my book you'll be an American" -- "A letter to my Novia" -- "Only a few grains of sand left in the hourglass" -- At the river's edge -- A change of heart? -- Gambling for time -- The taste of tears -- Kaddish |
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A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through nine American and British characters including Hemingway and George Orwell. It was a war between fascism, communism, and democracy that preceded World War II, and a tale of idealism and a noble cause that failed |
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Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
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Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939)
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1900-1999
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Americans -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
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Americans.
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Military participation -- American.
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Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, American
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Spain
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Spanien -- historia
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History.
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| Classmark |
946.081/420973
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780547973180 |
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