Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War
Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War

Author: Gilbert H. Muller

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 3030281248

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During the 1930s, no event was more absorbing or galvanizing to Ernest Hemingway than the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway was passionately devoted to the cause of the democratically elected Spanish Republic and he spent much of the war reporting from its front lines, producing a deeply political body of work that illuminated the conflict and presaged the world war to come. In the end, his immersive journey into the turbulent world of the Spanish Civil War resulted in For Whom the Bell Tolls, a landmark in American political fiction. This book offers a fresh account of Hemingway’s adventures in Spain during the Civil War, stressing his embrace of radical political action and discourse in defense of the Republic against the forces of Fascism. On the eightieth anniversary of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Gilbert H. Muller reconsiders Hemingway as an engaged artist, political actor, and visionary.

The Evolution of Polo
The Evolution of Polo

Author: Horace A. Laffaye

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2009-09-12

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 0786454156

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Tracing the evolution of polo from its origins in Central Asia to its current manifestation as a professional sport that attracts wealthy sponsors and patrons, this sociological study examines how polo has changed according to the economic and cultural differences of the nations and continents where it is played. One hundred historic and modern photographs are included.

The Forbidden Zone
The Forbidden Zone

Author: Mary Borden

Publisher: Hesperus Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1843919966

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Mary Borden worked for four years in an evacuation hospital unit following the front lines up and down the European theater of the First World War. This beautifully written book, to be read alongside the likes of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, is a collection of her memories and impressions of that experience. Describing the men as they march into battle, engaging imaginatively with the stories of individual soldiers, and recounting procedures at the field hospital, the author offers a perspective on the war that is both powerful and intimate.