{"product_id":"spain-in-our-hearts-americans-in-the-spanish-civil-war-1936-1939","title":"Adam Hochschild: Spain in Our Hearts [2016] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that rapidly advancing fascism must be halted in Spain; if not there, where? More than 35,000 volunteers from dozens of other countries went to help defend the Spanish Republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Hochschild, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, evokes this tumultuous period mainly through the lives of Americans involved in the war. A few are famous, such as Ernest Hemingway, but others are less familiar. They include a nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman, a fiery leftist who came to wartime Spain on her honeymoon; a young man who ran away from his Pennsylvania college and became the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid; and a swashbuckling Texas oilman who covertly violated US law and sold Generalissimo Francisco Franco most of the fuel for his army. Two \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ereporters, fierce rivals, covered the war from opposite sides, with opposite sympathies. There are Britons in Hochschild's cast of characters as well: one, a London sculptor, fought with the American battalion; another, who had just gone down from Cambridge, joined Franco's army and found himself fighting against the Americans; and a third is someone whose experience of combat in Spain had a profound effect on his life, George Orwell.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hochschild, Adam","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":47124096483667,"sku":"XG81509810543","price":14.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":44611215065378,"sku":"9781509810543","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hochschild-adam-adam-hochschild-spain-in-our-hearts-2016-hardback-60561132290387.jpg?v=1735455908","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/spain-in-our-hearts-americans-in-the-spanish-civil-war-1936-1939","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}