Volume 7, Number 8 · November 17, 1966
In the Labyrinth
By Gerald Brenan
Spain, 1808-1939
by Raymond Carr
Oxford, 800 pp., $12.50
The Thirty Thousand
by Carmen Irizzary
Harcourt, Brace, 399 pp., $6.95
Spanish history from the death of Philip II to the end of the last century is virtually an unexplored subject. There have been no good books on it in English and only one or two of limited scope in French or Spanish. Spain has lain walled off by the Pyrenees like a country of fable, a favorite subject for travel writers but neglected by the historians. The few that have tried their hand at it have merely scraped the surface.
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