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From acclaimed best-selling publisher Adam Hochschild, a sweeping background of the Spanish Civil War told through twelve individuals, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a commendable cause that failed. For three important years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in the us and around the world as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic federal government deal with off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photos. But Adam Hochschild has uncovered some less familiar yet a lot more compelling individuals who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war: a fiery 19-year-old Kentucky woman who visited wartime Spain on her honeymoon vacation; a Swarthmore College or university senior who was simply the first American casualty in the struggle for Madrid; a set of fiercely partisan, rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the war from opposites attributes; and a swashbuckling Tx oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his olive oil - at reduced prices and on credit. It was in lots of ways the opening struggle of World War II, and we still have much to study from it. Spain inside our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best.
