We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil WarThe war in Spain and those who wrote at first hand of its horrors. 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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... Badajoz was secured with even greater courage than that which had taken him into the beast's lair that was Franco's headquarters . He had been in Lisbon gathering , at some risk , information on the delivery of eight hundred tons of war ...
... Badajoz is practically ancient history , but Badajoz is one of those damned spots the truth about which will not be out so soon . And so I did not mind being nine days late , if my newspaper didn't . We began to hear the truth before we ...
... Badajoz . Fischer recalled : ' We visited Badajoz together last April on an automo- bile trip through Spain to study Azaña's agrarian reform . ' Jay told him that when he had entered the bullring , he saw ' the arena covered with a ...
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We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War Paul Preston No preview available - 2009 |
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War Paul Preston No preview available - 2012 |