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A carregar... Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (original 2016; edição 2016)por Adam Hochschild (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is the kind of history I like reading: told from the perspectives of (extra)ordinary people—in this case, Americans, whether volunteer soldiers, nurses, or reporters—as seen in their letters, dispatches, and journals. But in this case it felt lacking; I wanted both a grand, historical sweep and the ordinary Spaniard’s POV, whether Republican or Nationalist. Nonetheless, it’s a vivid recounting of the Spanish Civil War But one can’t call this an outsider’s perspective, because the people Hochschild features in his book were in the trenches themselves; the courageous volunteers of the International Brigades were ready to fight against fascism at all costs. ( ) Ágætis yfirlit yfir erlendu sjálfboðaliðana sem börðust með lýðveldishernum í Spænska borgarastríðinu. Hochschild minnist líka örlítið á erlenda sjálfboðaliða í her Francos og gefur ágætis umfjöllun um bandaríska olíubaróna sem tóku einarða afstöðu með Franco, veittu honum ótakmarkað lán, njósnir um olíuflutninga lýðveldisins og birgðu hann upp af eldsneyti svo hann gat haldið stríðinu gangandi. Stories of the Americans who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War (with occasional reference to the more famous foreign correspondent, Orwell, whose experiences were overlapping). And, also, stories of the Americans who, in safety, supported fascism, especially Texaco, whose free hand with supplies and information gave Franco significant advantages in the war. 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 curiosity. Hochschild sets the stage with a brief summary of events that lead to the revolt soon led by Franco, and adds context with depictions of the interest and aid offered to each side by the Soviet Union, Italy and Germany. He also uses first person narratives to take readers into the trenches and battles, as well as into the hospitals, of the Republican side. After finishing the book, I understood much better the history of the Spanish Civil War and the place it held, maybe still holds, in the hearts of my parents' generation.
"Hochschild narrates such tales with prose that is consistently vivid yet emotionally restrained. His main contribution is to retell a familiar story with a focus on Americans and an unromantic assessment of why the “good guys” lost, so that he adroitly evokes the commitments of Americans on both sides while eschewing any retrospective cheerleading for the Republic." "Hochschild is an exceptional writer; his narrative is well-paced, delivered in clear prose, and focused on important and colorful details of the historical moment. Volunteers from around the world....saw the Republican cause as a last-ditch effort to stop fascism before it spread across Europe, and Hochschild tells their story beautifully."
For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're 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 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, rivalrous New 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. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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