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This book tells the tragic story of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of writers, artists and musicians who were deeply involved and close to it. By means of chronological chapters covering the major phases the author describes the roles of figures such as Arthur Koestler, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, George Orwell, Esmond Romilly, Martha Gellhorn (Hemingways lover), Salvador Dali, the poet Federico Lorca (who was killed) etc. Other famous names include the spies Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt. The progress of the War is followed from the outbreak rebellion of summer 1936, through Seville, the war in the Aragon Mountains, Madrid, Malaga, the arrival of the International Brigades in 1937, the notorious destruction of Guernika by the German Condor Legion, Barcelona and Francos victorious march, checked briefly on the Ebro. This is a highly informative and interesting work covering a period of military history that has been largely neglected.
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Salvador Dali, Soft Construction with Baked Beans (Premonition of Civil War) .
Federico Garcia Lorca as director of La Barraca travelling theatre.
A group of young writers, artists and musicians paying tribute to the painter Hernando Vines in a Madrid caf, May 1936.
Sixth from the left and standing Federico Garcia Lorca.
Eighth from the left and standing Luis Bunuel
Second from the right and seated Gustavo Duran
The Radio General Queipo de Llano, July 1936.
General Franco with Colonel Yague at the Yanduri Palace, Seville, Summer 1936.
Militiawomen in Barcelona.
Luis Quintanilla.
Esmond Romilly.
Eric Blair (Orwell)
The Siege of the Alcazar in Toledo. Militiamen firing at the garrison.
Peter Kemp, the Cambridge undergraduate, in the uniform of an officer of the Spanish Foreign Legion.
Roy Campbell. A drawing by Wyndham Lewis.
Madrid. Shell damage to a street in the center, Calle Marques de Santa Ana.
John Cornford.
The Tom Mann Centuria (The forerunner of the International Brigades). Left to right standing: Sid Avener, Nat Cohen (leader of the group), Ramona, Jack Barry and David Marshal. Kneeling are Tom Wintringham and Georgio Tioli.
Bomb crater, Puerto del Sol, Madrid.
British volunteer firing a Lewis gun, Madrid.
Ruins of the university city.
Captain Luis Bolin.
Civilians executed by the advancing Nationalists in Malaga.
One of the identifying photographs of Arthur Koestler taken when he was arrested in Malaga.
Hemingway close to the front line. From right to left: journalists Vincent Sheean, Herbert Mathews, Ernest Hemingway.
The Commissar Gustav Regler with officers of the French Battalion (Regler is the third from the left wearing a knitted balaclava).
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