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Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Richard Rhodes
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Description for Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
Paperback. Celebrated historian Richard Rhodes explores the Spanish Civil War through the stories of the reporters, writers, artists and doctorswho witnessed it Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) engaged an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, to name only a few. The idealism of the cause - defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war - and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia.
Paralleling the outpouring of writing and art, the war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology. So many different countries participated ... Read more
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) engaged an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers: Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, John Dos Passos, to name only a few. The idealism of the cause - defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was darkening toward another world war - and the brutality of the conflict drew from them some of their best work: Guernica, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Homage to Catalonia.
Paralleling the outpouring of writing and art, the war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology. So many different countries participated ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781471126185
SKU
V9781471126185
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About Richard Rhodes
Richard Rhodes is the author of several books. He received the Pulitzer prize for THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB and the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize for DARK SUN. He has received numerous fellowships for research and writing, including grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation Program in ... Read more
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