Volume 41, Number 20 · December 1, 1994
In Another Country
By Bernard Knox
Fallen Sparrows: The International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War
by Michael Jackson
American Philosophical Society, 176 pp., $25.00
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
by Peter N. Carroll
Stanford University Press, 472 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Prisoners of the Good Fight: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1938
by Carl Geiser, preface by Robert G. Colodny
Lawrence Hill, 297 pp., $12.95 (paper)
Remembering Spain: Hemingway's Civil War Eulogy and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
edited by Cary Nelson, essays by Milton Wolff, by Cary Nelson. includes a tape of Hemingway's recording of the eulogy
University of Illinois Press, 39 pp., $13.95
Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel
by Milton Wolff
University of Illinois Press, 395 pp., $27.50
This year's spectacular commemoration of the Normandy landings was preceded by the publication or re-issue of a number of books dealing with that great enterprise, even though, to Americans of younger generations, the Second World War, something that occurred before the American wars in Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf (not to mention military operations in Grenada and Panama), must seem like ancient history. The Spanish Civil War which began in July 1936, and in which America took no official part, must seem to them like prehistory. And yet, as if to herald the approach of the sixtieth anniversary of its outbreak, books by and about participants in that far-off war are beginning to appear on both sides of the Atlantic.
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