The Mexican Suitcase
In 2007 a hoard of precious negatives turned up in Mexico.
A large quantity of negatives put into the hands of a Spanish general
towards the end of the Spanish Civil War and transported to Mexico, where
they sat in a cupboard for the next 75 odd years.
They were the works of David Seymour "Chim", Robert Capa, and his paramour
Gerda Tara, who was killed during the conflict.
There is an excellent documentary and a 750 page book, both with the
same name.
The
Aura of the Cause : A Photo Album for North American Volunteers in the
Spanish Civil War
by Cary Nelson
(Hardcover)
Arms
for Spain : The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War
by Gerald Howson
(Hardcover)
Britain
and the Spanish Civil War
by Tom Buchanan
(Paperback)
Comrades:
Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War
by Harry Fisher, Pete Seeger
Harry Fisher, a young labor organizer during the depression years,
was one of some 3,000 Americans to join the cause of the loyalist government
when civil war broke out in Spain in 1936. Assigned to the Lincoln Battalion,
which would later become the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (and, the author notes,
the first racially integrated unit in American military history), Fisher
fought in several key engagements against the fascists, including the bloody
battle of Jarama. He emerged from the war scarred but alive, unlike most
of the young Americans who populate the pages of his memoir, nearly all
of them killed in action for a cause they knew was right--but also doomed
to failure. Anger, Fisher writes, motivated him to assemble his memoirs--anger
that, as he puts it, "countless U.S. administrations have treated us like
pariahs, President Reagan even commenting once that the Lincolns fought
on the wrong side in the Spanish Civil War!" Yet what emerges from his
pages is not so much anger as a gentle, and often good-humored, homage
to the young men who fought at his side--and even some kind tributes to
his former enemies, who, he writes, "were just kids who happened to live
in territory controlled by the fascists, kids who would surely have preferred
soccer games to war." A highlight comes at the end of the narrative, when
Fisher recounts a trip to Spain in 1996 to commemorate the 60th anniversary
of the Lincoln Brigades' founding. His book is a solid contribution to
histories of the period, worthy of a place alongside Ernest Hemingway's
For
Whom the Bell Tolls. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Paperback: 231 pages
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803268998; |
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Deadly Embrace: Morocco and the Road to the Spanish Civil War
by Sebastian Balfour
Listed under Morocco
Defying
Male Civilization : Women in the Spanish Civil War (Women and Modern Revolutions
Series)
by Mary Nash
(Paperback)
Doves
of War: Four Women of Spain
by Paul Preston
Book Description: Much has been written about the Spanish Civil
War's effects on Spain and its citizens, but little attention has been
paid to the women involved in the conflict. In this beautifully written
biographical work, Paul Preston tells the forgotten war stories of four
exceptional women of different nationalities, backgrounds, and ideologies
whose lives were starkly altered by the war.
The portraits in this provocative, yet objective volume mirror the war
itself, with the left pitted against the right. On the left side are Margarita
Nelken, the revolutionary feminist, writer, and politician who is juggling
anxieties for her son and daughter with her frantic efforts to strengthen
the Republican war effort against Franco; and Nan Green, the communist
nurse who left her children behind in England to fight against fascism
alongside her husband in the International Brigades. On the right side
are Mercedes Sanz Bachiller, who, devastated by a miscarriage on hearing
of her husband's death in battle, entered politics and became the most
powerful woman in the Francoist zone; and Priscilla Scott-Ellis, the wealthy
English socialite who traveled to Spain in the naïve hope of marrying
the Spanish prince she so unrequitedly loved, and stayed to help the fascist
war effort as a nurse on the front lines.
Drawing on documentary material, letters, diaries, and memoirs, Preston
follows the four from birth to death to show how, as women, wives, and
mothers, they were affected by the political struggles of the 1930s, and
how their lives were traumatized and forever changed by the Spanish Civil
War and its consequences. Despite their different nationalities, social
origins, and beliefs, these remarkable women are linked by their courage,
determination, intelligence, compassion, and readiness to make personal
sacrifices for others.
These dramatic, poignant, and vivid portraits offer a fresh perspective
on the experiences of women in the Spanish Civil War and shed new light
on the emotional cost of the conflict that is often viewed as the last
war fought for ideals.
from Northeastern University Press
ISBN: 1555535607 |
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The
Ebro 1938 : Death Knell of the Republic (Campaign Series , No 60)
by Chris Henry, Adam Hook (Photographer).
The last major Republican offensive of the Spanish Civil War during
which the Republic's armies lost vast amounts of men and materials, and
additionally, under pressure from France and Britain the International
Brigades were withdrawn. Franco's ultimate victory created another powerful
fascist state; Britain's and France's failure to intervene convinced Hitler
he could invade Czechoslovakia unopposed, ultimately hastening the outbreak
of World War 2. Amazon.com
Paperback - 96 pages (March )
Osprey Pub Co; ISBN: 1855327384
The
Fifth Column : And Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
by Ernest Hemingway
(Paperback)
For
Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
"...one of the best war novels of the 20th century."
(Paperback)
Heart of Spain : Robert Capa's Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
by Robert Capa (Photographer), et al
Robert Capa first gained recognition for the images he made during
the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). This volume is the first to be devoted
entirely to the finest of these images. In 1936, the move by Generalissimo
Franco and an alliance of Monarchists and Fascists to overthrow the Spanish
government mobilized anti-Fascist forces from around the world. Like many
others outside Spain, Capa felt he had a responsibility to support the
anti-Fascist cause, and drew worldwide attention to the fight through his
photographs. Capa personalized the struggle of the Spanish loyalists, illuminated
the strength and courage of the soldiers who carried on against insufferable
odds; and galvanized compassion for the innocent and injured. John Steinbeck
praised Capa for his ability to "show the horror of a whole people in the
face of a child". His iconic photograph of a Spanish loyalist, which shocked
the world with its intimacy and drama, epitomizes the power and sensitivity
of his accomplishment. Powells.com
Listed under Robert Capa
Homage
to Catalonia
by George Orwell
"I wonder what is the appropriate first action when you come from a
country at war and set foot on peaceful soil. Mine was to rush to the tobacco-kiosk
and buy as many cigars and cigarettes as I could stuff into my pockets."
Most war correspondents observe wars and then tell stories about the battles,
the soldiers and the civilians. George Orwell--novelist, journalist, sometime
socialist--actually traded his press pass for a uniform and fought against
Franco's Fascists in the Spanish Civil War during 1936 and 1937. He put
his politics and his formidable conscience to the toughest tests during
those days in the trenches in the Catalan section of Spain. Then, after
nearly getting killed, he went back to England and wrote a gripping account
of his experiences, as well as a complex analysis of the political machinations
that led to the defeat of the socialist Republicans and the victory of
the Fascists. Amazon.com
Paperback: Harvest Books; ISBN: 0156421178;
(September 1987)
International
Brigades in Spain 1936-39 Elite 53
ISBN: 1855323672
The
Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil
War
by Peter N. Carroll
Paperback: 440 pages
Stanford Univ Pr; ISBN: 0804722773;
The
Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade : Americans in the Spanish Civil
War
by Peter N. Carroll
(Hardcover)
The
Spanish Civil War
by Antony Beevor
Paperback: 320 pages
Penguin USA
(Paper); ISBN: 0141001488; Reissue edition
(July 3, )
The
Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
by Franz Borkenau, Hugh Thomas (Introduction)
(Paperback)
The
Spanish Civil War (Modern Library War) [ABRIDGED]
by Hugh Thomas
(Paperback)
The
Spanish Civil War : Revolution and Counterrevolution
by Burnett Bolloten
(Hardcover - February 1991)
The
Spanish Labyrinth : An Account of the Social and Political Background of
the Civil War
by Gerald Brenan
(Paperback - February 1991)
Spain
Betrayed : The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War (Annals of Communism)
by Ronald Radosh (Editor), et al
(Hardcover)
The
Tree of Life : Stories of Civil War
by Mario Bencastro, et al
(Paperback)
To
Tilt at Windmills : A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
by Fred A. Thomas
(Hardcover)
Shouts from the Wall : Posters and Photographs Brought Home from
the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers
by Cary Nelson
(Paperback)
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