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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Amanda Vaill
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Description for Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 348.
Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is here that six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and a new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious young journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic and ... Read more
Amid the rubble of a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe, the Hotel Florida on Madrid's chic Gran Via has become a haven for foreign journalists and writers. It is here that six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and a new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious young journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408833896
SKU
V9781408833896
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About Amanda Vaill
Amanda Vaill is the author of the bestselling Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy—A Lost Generation Love Story, which was a national bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. Somewhere was made into a documentary that ... Read more
Reviews for Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War
A highly original and beautifully written account of the intrepid – and sometimes crazy – journalists who risked everything to report on the Spanish Civil War. Amanda Vaill has produced a work that is by turns gripping and heartbreaking, and utterly compelling
Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana and A World on Fire
Fascinating ... A valiant job of ... Read more
Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana and A World on Fire
Fascinating ... A valiant job of ... Read more