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'With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English' New Republic
For three crucial years in the 1930s, volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a Fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. The Spanish Civil War was the century's first modern, total war, but it was soon overshadowed by the world war that it helped introduce. Today it is mostly remembered through classic accounts from Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell, and in Robert Capa's photographs. But in Spain in Our Hearts, Adam Hochschild presents equally compelling, if less well-known, characters and weaves their stories together to reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war.
'Hochschild's contribution lies in the storytelling, his sure command of military history, and his beautiful sense of private hurt . . . effortlessly hopscotches from global history to individual - and emotional - experience' Guardian
'Hochschild tells nuanced tales of political awakenings and disillusionments, but also steadfast ethical commitment. He never descends into easy moralizing . . . Spanish Civil War history is a minefield but Hochschild has entered it sure-footedly' BBC History Magazine
'With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English' New Republic
For three crucial years in the 1930s, volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a Fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. The Spanish Civil War was the century's first modern, total war, but it was soon overshadowed by the world war that it helped introduce. Today it is mostly remembered through classic accounts from Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell, and in Robert Capa's photographs. But in Spain in Our Hearts, Adam Hochschild presents equally compelling, if less well-known, characters and weaves their stories together to reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war.
'Hochschild's contribution lies in the storytelling, his sure command of military history, and his beautiful sense of private hurt . . . effortlessly hopscotches from global history to individual - and emotional - experience' Guardian
'Hochschild tells nuanced tales of political awakenings and disillusionments, but also steadfast ethical commitment. He never descends into easy moralizing . . . Spanish Civil War history is a minefield but Hochschild has entered it sure-footedly' BBC History Magazine
Adam Hochschild's first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a Journey into the Heart of South Africa and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won the Duff Cooper Prize in the UK, the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. To End All Wars: a Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War, was published by Macmillan in 2011. His books have been translated into twelve languages.
Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, the sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild. They have two sons and one grandchild.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Jahrhundert: | 20. Jahrhundert |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: |
352 S.
32 Illustr. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781509810604 |
| ISBN-10: | 1509810609 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hochschild, Adam |
| Hersteller: | Pan Macmillan |
| Maße: | 197 x 131 x 34 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Adam Hochschild |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.04.2017 |
| Gewicht: | 0,354 kg |
Adam Hochschild's first book, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son, was published in 1986. It was followed by The Mirror at Midnight: a Journey into the Heart of South Africa and The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. His 1997 collection, Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay. King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa won the Duff Cooper Prize in the UK, the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. To End All Wars: a Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War, was published by Macmillan in 2011. His books have been translated into twelve languages.
Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley and has been a Fulbright Lecturer in India. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, the sociologist and author Arlie Hochschild. They have two sons and one grandchild.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2017 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Jahrhundert: | 20. Jahrhundert |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: |
352 S.
32 Illustr. |
| ISBN-13: | 9781509810604 |
| ISBN-10: | 1509810609 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Hochschild, Adam |
| Hersteller: | Pan Macmillan |
| Maße: | 197 x 131 x 34 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Adam Hochschild |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.04.2017 |
| Gewicht: | 0,354 kg |
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