We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War - Hardcover

Preston, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602397678 ISBN 13: 9781602397675

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

From 1936 to 1939, the eyes of the world were fixed on the devastating Spanish conflict that drew both professional war correspondents and great writers. Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Josephine Herbst, Martha Gellhorn, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Kim Philby, George Orwell, Arthur Koestler, Cyril Connolly, André Malraux, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, and others wrote eloquently about the horrors they saw firsthand.
Together, with many great and now largely forgotten journalists, they put their lives on the line, discarding professionally dispassionate approaches and keenly espousing the cause of the partisans. Facing censorship, they fought to expose the complacency with which the decision-makers of the West were appeasing Hitler and Mussolini. Many campaigned for the lifting of non-intervention, revealing the extent to which the Spanish Republic had been betrayed. Peter Preston’s exhilarating account illuminates the moment when war correspondence came of age.

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“Paul Preston has huge factual expertise and range.” (Financial Times)

“This testament to their testimony could not have been supplied by a more erudite expert. Preston is a peerless historian of Spain, and the only one who writes as readably as a professional journalist.” (The Independent)

“[A] scholarly analysis of the influence of various journalists on the public perception of the Spanish civil war.” (Maria C. Bagshaw - Library Journal)

About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1602397678
• ISBN 13: 9781602397675
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448