Volume 27, Number 17 · November 6, 1980
Remembering Madrid
By Bernard Knox
Miracle of November: Madrid's Epic Stand, 1936
by Dan Kurzman
Putnam's, 352 pp., $14.95
The Spanish Revolution: The Left and the Struggle for Power During the Civil War
by Burnett Bolloten
University of North Carolina Press, 664 pp., $29.00
Beyond Death and Exile: The Spanish Republicans in France, 1939-1955
by Louis Stein
Harvard University Press, 306 pp., $20.00
'The onlooker,' in the words of the English sportsman's adage, 'sees most of the game.' As a minor player in the defense of Madrid in November 1936 (a twenty-one-year-old member of the machine gun company of the Bataillon Commune de Paris, XIth International Brigade) I was at the time sublimely ignorant of most of the events described and discussed in two of the books under review.
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