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Simon & Schuster
February 2015
On Sale: February 3, 2015
ISBN: 1451696213
EAN: 9781451696219
Kindle: B00LD1S0AC
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Non-Fiction History
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of
The Making of the Atomic Bomb—the remarkable story of the
Spanish Civil War through the eyes of the reporters,
writers, artists, doctors, and nurses who witnessed it. The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an
extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers,
including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest
Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. 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, The Spanish Earth. The war spurred breakthroughs in military and medical
technology as well. New aircraft, new weapons, new tactics
and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict.
Indiscriminate destruction raining from the sky became a
dreaded reality for the first time. Progress also arose from
the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve
with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in
battlefield surgery and front-line blood transfusion. In
those ways, and in many others, the Spanish Civil War served
as a test bed for World War II, and for the entire twentieth
century. From the life of John James Audubon to the invention of the
atomic bomb, readers have long relied on Richard Rhodes to
explain, distill, and dramatize crucial moments in history.
Now, he takes us into battlefields and bomb shelters, into
the studios of artists, into the crowded wards of war
hospitals, and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of
characters to show how the ideological, aesthetic, and
technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the
world forever.
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