Adam Hochschild

Spain in Our Hearts (eBook, ePUB)

Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: atale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, asvolunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today were accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war: a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman who went to wartime Spain on her honeymoon, a Swarthmore College senior who was the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid, a pair of fiercely partisan, rivalrousNew York Times reporters who covered the war from opposites sides, and a swashbuckling Texas oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his oil at reduced prices, and on credit.It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. Spain in Our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547974538
• Artikelnr.: 44150600

Autorenporträt

Adam Hochschild's first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son , was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a Journey into the Heart of South Africa and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won the Duff Cooper Prize in the UK, the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. To End All Wars: a Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War, was published by Macmillan in 2011. His books have been translated into twelve languages. Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, the sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild. They have two sons and one grandchild.

Inhaltsangabe

Section
i: List of Maps Section
ii: Author's Note Introduction
iii: Prologue: Far from Home Chapter
1: Chasing Moneychangers from the Temple Chapter
2: Promised Land, Black Wings Chapter
3: "Those Who Do Not Think as We Do" Chapter
4: A New Heaven and Earth Chapter
5: "I Will Destroy Madrid" Chapter
6: "Don't Try to Catch Me" Chapter
7: Rifles from the 1860s Chapter
8: Over the Mountains Chapter
9: Civil War at the Times Chapter
10: The Man Who Loved Dictators Chapter
11: Devil's Bargain Chapter
12: "I Don't Think I Would Write about That If I Were You" Chapter
13: "As Good a Method of Getting Married as Any Other" Chapter
14: Texaco Goes to War Chapter
15: "In My Book You'll Be an American" Chapter
16: "A Letter to My Novia" Chapter
17: "Only a Few Grains of Sand Left in the Hourglass" Chapter
18: At the River's Edge Chapter
19: A Change of Heart? Chapter
20: Gambling for Time Chapter
21: The Taste of Tears Chapter
22: Kaddish Acknowledgements
iv: Acknowledgements Section
iv: Notes Section
v: Bibliography Section
vi: Photo Credits Index
vii: Index Acknowledgements
viii: Permissions Acknowledgements