{"product_id":"spain-in-our-hearts-americans-in-the-spanish-civil-war-1936-1939","title":"Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that rapidly advancing fascism must be halted in Spain; if not there, where? More than 35,000 volunteers from dozens of other countries went to help defend the Spanish Republic.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAdam Hochschild, the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, evokes this tumultuous period mainly through the lives of Americans involved in the war. A few are famous, such as Ernest Hemingway, but others are less familiar. They include a nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman, a fiery leftist who came to wartime Spain on her honeymoon; a young man who ran away from his Pennsylvania college and became the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid; and a swashbuckling Texas oilman who covertly violated US law and sold Generalissimo Francisco Franco most of the fuel for his army. Two \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ereporters, fierce rivals, covered the war from opposite sides, with opposite sympathies. There are Britons in Hochschild's cast of characters as well: one, a London sculptor, fought with the American battalion; another, who had just gone down from Cambridge, joined Franco's army and found himself fighting against the Americans; and a third is someone whose experience of combat in Spain had a profound effect on his life, George Orwell.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"Wordsworth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40305832788146,"sku":"1509810609","price":250.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/products\/25698_611d38cc863d59.10558713_9781509810604_fffd5f81-bc15-4bcb-9563-8092a6907df0.jpg?v=1673193370","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/spain-in-our-hearts-americans-in-the-spanish-civil-war-1936-1939","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}