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The Spanish Civil War had a devastating impact on Spanish writing. Among the handful of civil war poets and writers, Miguel Hernández stands out. During the early dictatorship (1939–1955), literature followed dictator Francisco Franco's reactionary vision of a second, Catholic Spanish golden age. By the mid-1950s, just as with the novel, a ...
For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer attached to a Republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia. It was published just after the end of the ...
t. e. The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be ...
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca[ a ] (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca[ b ] (English: / ɡɑːrˌsiːəˈlɔːrkə / gar-SEE-ə LOR-kə), was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a ...
An online annotated bibliography of fiction and literary essays about the Civil War, from the 19th century to the present. First published as an appendix in the ebook Soldier Boys: Tales of the Civil War by author Jack Matthews, 2016. Ryan, Daniel J. The Civil War Literature of Ohio.
The Spanish Civil War is a book by Hugh Thomas; it provides scholarly historiographic account of the Spanish Civil War. The work, written since 1957, was first published in 1961: simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Eyre & Spottiswoode and in the United States by Harpers '. Upon release it received rather positive reviews; it won the ...
Edward FitzGerald "Gerald" Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) [2] was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.. Brenan is probably best known for The Spanish Labyrinth, a historical work on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for a mainly autobiographical work South from Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village.
The Spanish Civil War (Spanish: guerra civil española) [note 2] was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left -leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic , and consisted of various socialist , communist , separatist , anarchist , and ...