Blood of Spain - An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War

Pimlico, 1986

Spain today has been shaped by the outcome of its intensely bitter Civil War (1936-9). This book contains the recollections of the participants - the landowners and landless labourers, factory owners and workers, students, housewives, priests, miners, soldiers, as well as members of all political groupings. The book attempts to explain what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses and the atmosphere of events is recaptured and the tragic essence of all civil war is revealed...