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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... shot there and then . He was taken to a place where men were being executed by a gleeful mob of rebel soldiers . He was then held for four days in the prison at Málaga before being transferred to the central prison in Seville , where he ...
... shot away . " The Reds had machine - guns there and our artillery was obliged to fire , ' my friends said . Here yesterday there was a ceremonial , symbolical shooting . Seven lead- ing Republicans of the Popular Front ( Loyalists ) , shot ...
... shot as ' Reds ' because they sought to defend them . We passed a corner . ' Until yesterday there was a pool blackened with blood here , ' said my friends . ' All the loyal military were shot here and their bodies left for days as an ...
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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 |