**A New York Times bestseller
"With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant
Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written
in English. A humane and moving book." -- New Republic
"Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild's] book so
intimate and moving is its human scale." -- Dwight Garner, New York
Times**
For three years in the 1930s, the world watched, riveted, as the Spanish
Civil War became the battleground in a fight between freedom and fascism
that would soon take on global proportions. Confronting a right-wing
coup led by Francisco Franco and heavily aided by Hitler and Mussolini,
volunteers flooded in to support Spain's democratic government. Among
them were nearly three thousand Americans, called by their convictions
to lend a hand in a brutal conflict their government wanted no part of.
In Spain in Our Hearts, Adam Hochschild weaves together the stories of
some dozen foreigners to reveal the full tragedy and importance of the
war. Among them are a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman on her
honeymoon whose experience in revolutionary Barcelona became the high
point of her life, a pair of rivalrous New York Times reporters who
covered the fighting from opposite sides, and a widely admired American
couple on the war's front lines whose inspiring, heartbreaking love
story threads through this account. We still have many lessons to learn
from this chapter in history, and Spain in Our Hearts is Adam
Hochschild at his very best.
**"An unusually well-written narrative, full of telling detail and
vignettes that capture great human drama." -- Wall Street Journal
"After reading Hochschild's book, it's impossible to feel anything but
admiration -- and awe." -- San Francisco Chronicle**
