Volume 26, Number 12 · July 19, 1979
The Red and the White
By Raymond Carr
Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
by Ronald Fraser
Pantheon, 628 pp., $15.95
Clearly Mr. Fraser feels the need to justify another 300,000 or so words on the Spanish Civil War. 'It would be vain to hope to add,' he writes, 'anything new to the overall map of the period.' His purpose is distinct. He set out to find something that 'has remained unarticulated: the subjective, a spectrum of the lived experiences of people who participated in the events,' in order to 'reveal the intangible 'atmosphere' of events.'
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