Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made

Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World it Made
ISBN-10
1451696221
ISBN-13
9781451696226
Category
History
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2016-02-23
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Author
Richard Rhodes

Description

"The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional atrists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Martha Gelhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. It spurred breakthroughs in military and medical technology. New aircraft, weapons, tactics, and strategy all emerged in the intense Spanish conflict. Progress also arose from the horror: doctors and nurses who volunteered to serve with the Spanish defenders devised major advances in battlefield surgery and frontline blood tansfusion. Rhodes takes us into the battlefields, bomb shelters, and hospitals; into the studios of artists; and into the hearts and minds of a rich cast of characters, showing how the ideological, aesthetic, and technological developments that emerged in Spain changed the world forever." --

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