We're accustomed to remembering the Spanish Civil War through Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, George Orwell's memoirs, and Robert Capa's photographs. Adam Hochschild offers a fascinating account of the Americans who traveled to Spain to help its democratic government fight off Francisco Franco's fascist uprising. "All of us who care about social justice feel a need for political ancestors," Hochschild writes, "and surely, it seems, that's what these [volunteers] were." Here are the stories of idealism and suffering for a noble cause.
Adam Hochschild is the author of seven books and a cofounder of Mother Jones. King Leopold's Ghost was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as was his recent To End All Wars, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Bury the Chains was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN USA Literary Award. He lives in Berkeley, California.
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