The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic by Henry Buckley

The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic by Henry Buckley

*Exceptional insider account of Spanish Civil War *Spanish Civil War continues to have lots of general reader appeal *New intro by Paul Preston - leading historian of Spanish Civil War

'the best contemporary account of the Spanish civil war' - Giles Tremlett, The Observer 'It is increasingly rare for a book about the Spanish civil war to generate much excitement, but the re-emergence of this account is a gift' - Miles Johnson, Spectator, 'dazzling..indispensable - a uniquely penetrating eyewitness view with a pulsing compassion at its core.' - Sinclair McKay, Telegraph 'one of the best books ever written on the Spanish Civil War' - Michael Jacobs, Literary Review 'The Spanish Civil War was the central element of twentieth-century Spanish history. Throughout the almost eighty years since that summer of 1936, novelists, poets and historians have attempted to explain its causes and its consequences, the most bitter conflicts and the politics that drove them. Life and Death of the Spanish Republic presents a clear, sharply-defined first-hand portrait of this conflict. It is an exceptional testimony.' - Julian Casanova, author of A Short History of the Spanish Civil War. 'Henry Buckley was one of the best of a top array of foreign correspondents of the 1930s and after, the only first-hand observer to write an account of the entire history of the Spanish Republic. The book is a classic, written with great personal honesty.' - Stanley G. Payne 'The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic is a compelling account of one time-locked country's bid for democratic change, and of the human and structural obstacles to it. Henry Buckley, the war correspondent's correspondent who mentored Hemingway, already knew Spain before the Nazi and Fascist-backed military coup sent it spiralling into civil war in 1936; Buckley's writing encapsulates the hugeness and implacability of 'History' in the fresh and direct detail of ordinary people's hopes and fears. A clear-headed, humane assessment - with an almost unbearable immediacy - of hopes raised and dashed. One of the best books ever written on the subject in any language.' - Helen Graham, Professor of Spanish History, Royal Holloway, University of London 'The overwhelming value of this wonderful book is that it provides an objective picture of a crucial decade of contemporary Spanish history, based on an abundance of the eye-witness material that only a really assiduous resident correspondent could garner. For Hemingway, Hugh Thomas and others, [Henry Buckley] was a living archive of the [Spanish Civil] war. Fortunately for those who could not consult him personally, he left Life and Death of the Spanish Republic, a worthy monument to a great correspondent.' Paul Preston, author of The Spanish Holocaust, from the introduction to this book

Henry Buckley was the Daily Telegraph's correspondent in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He arrived in Spain in 1929, six years before the outbreak of the conflict, and left Spain with the remnants of the Republican forces following their defeat by Franco in 1939. Paul Preston is Professor of Contemporary Spanish Studies at LSE. He is one of the world's leading historians of the Spanish Civil War.

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ISBN 13	9781780769318
ISBN 10	1780769318
Title	The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic
Author	Henry Buckley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2013-04-24
Number of pages	448
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