1109: Hell and Good Company: 3of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made. by Richard Rhodes Kindle Edition
Photo: Soldiers in the ruins of the Alcázar. Nationalist soldiers walk through the ruins of the Alcázar in Toledo, during the siege by the republicans in the summer of 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.On the back stamps and leaf with press text in German. http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow . Hell and Good Company: 3of4: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made Kindle Edition. by Richard Rhodes (https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Rhodes/e/B00LXR3SYE/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) (Author) Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Hell-Good-Company-Spanish-Civil-ebook/dp/B00LD1S0AC/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, 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 inspired 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 during this time. Progress arose from the horror: the doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and frontline 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.