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España en el corazón: La historia de los brigadistas americanos en la Guerra Civil Española
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España en el corazón: La historia de los brigadistas americanos en la Guerra Civil Española
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España en el corazón: La historia de los brigadistas americanos en la Guerra Civil Española

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Un libro fundamental para entender el alcance internacional de la Guerra Civil Española.¿Qué motiva a alguien para luchar por un país que no es el suyo? Desde los primeros compases de la Guerra Civil Española, esta se convirtió en una cuestión política internacional. Hitler y Mussolini enviaron aviones, tropas y suministros a los generales golpistas empeñados en derrocar al gobierno electo de España. Ante esta situación, millones de personas en todo el mundo sintieron que el fascismo que asolaba Europa debía ser detenido en España. Más de 35.000 voluntarios de decenas de países ayudaron a defender la República española.
Hochschild, el aclamado autor de El fantasma del rey Leopoldo, evoca este período tumultuoso a través de las vidas de los estadounidenses involucrados en la guerra, entre los que se encontraban ciudadanos anónimos e intelectuales de la talla de Ernest Hemingway.
España en el corazón muestra cómo las atrocidades de la guerra calaron en el espíritu de los voluntarios y se reflejaron en sus palabras. Este libro muestra cómo un grupo de personas lidió con la guerra y la interpretó para sus contemporáneos; y cómo, en especial el periodismo y la correspondencia entre personas influyentes, modelaron la dirección y el resultado de la contienda.
"Los hombres de mi generación hemos tenido a España en nuestros corazones", escribía Camus en L'Espagne Libre, dando título a este elegante compendio de diarios de soldados, memorias periodísticas, reportajes, estrategias de batalla y cartas de amor tempestuosas.
LanguageEspañol
PublisherMALPASO
Release dateJun 11, 2018
ISBN9788417081799
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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Stories of the Americans who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War (with occasional reference to the more famous foreign correspondent, Orwell, whose experiences were overlapping). And, also, stories of the Americans who, in safety, supported fascism, especially Texaco, whose free hand with supplies and information gave Franco significant advantages in the war.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is one of those (many) eras of world history about which I knew less than the Wikipedia entry could tell me. To hear of how Spain's civil war fits into European history, at least back deep into the 19th century, and forward to the mid 1990s (and even in the recent global recession) was semi-mind-blowing. On top of all that information, the choices as a historian and narrator than the author chooses--lots of primary source work and choosing to follow closely individual Americans fighting and writing about the war--were all-around excellent.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Spain in Our Hearts declares up front it is not a history of the Spanish Civil War. Rather it is a series of vignettes about various Americans who went to fight with the International Brigades. The material is culled from period newspapers and private diaries. The people range from obscure teenagers to Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell (who is not American hmm). It is narrated in roughly chronological order so people are dropping in and out at various points as the material for their stories becomes available or gaps appear. There is no main character, no mystery driving it forward, just interesting short scenes that come and go. These "group biographies" are not my favorite form of non-fiction nevertheless it is a testament (indeed monument) to the variety of experiences during the war. I have very little knowledge of the war and this provided useful summary of events and the role played by foreign fighters.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    In general, an overview of the course of the Spanish Civil War, with an emphasis on the American volunteers who fought for the leftist Spanish Republic. The author is clearly writing from a point of view that is sympathetic to the left (he talks about "social justice" in his introduction), though to his credit he does not shirk from noting what Stalin was doing in Spain through his intermediaries. A running theme is the perfidy of Texaco (which sold oil on credit to Franco, and engaged in dubious intelligence practices) and the Catholic Church. Luckily, the progressive point of view isn't oppressive, and you can enjoy the book on its merits. Recommended.