Volume 5, Number 8 · November 25, 1965

The Spanish Tragedy

By Raymond Carr
The Spanish Republic and the Civil War 1931-1939
by Gabriel Jackson

Princeton, 565 pp., $12.50

Journey to the Alcarria
by Camilo José Cela, translated by Frances M. López Morillas

Wisconsin, 292 pp., $5.00

The Spanish Civil War ended in 1939 and for a period Europe was engulfed in a larger tragedy. In retrospect the Spanish Civil War seemed what one of the Republican Ministers once called it—a paupers' war. The exiles, like the issues, were forgotten. They were embarrassing relics.



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