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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made
By Rhodes, Richard
- ISBN
- 9781451696219 9781451696233
- Publisher
- S. & S.
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Reviewed on January 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb) recounts the human and medical sides of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9). 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 whimsical—a celebrated author ducking cannon fire to hand out gr...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
