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Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 Kindle Edition

by Adam Hochschild (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed.

For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini.

Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa’s photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war: a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman who went to wartime Spain on her honeymoon, a Swarthmore College senior who was the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid, a pair of fiercely partisan, rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the war from opposites sides, and a swashbuckling Texas oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his oil — at reduced prices, and on credit.

It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. Spain in Our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best.

“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
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Bob and Marion Merriman

Bob (right) and Marion (center) Merriman got married on the day they graduated from the University of Nevada in 1932. They then moved to Berkeley, where he was a graduate student. Bob later became commander of the first battalion of American volunteers in Spain. When he was wounded , Marion rushed there to help take care of him, then enlisted herself, doing clerical work at the International Brigades headquarters. Bob and Dave Doran (left) were last seen alive on April 2, 1938, leading a column of troops that was surrounded by Franco’s Nationalists. Their bodies were never found.

Credit: Harry Randall Fifteenth International Brigade Films and Photographs collection, courtesy of the Tamiment Library, New York University.

The Haircut

Just before the last great battle of the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of the Ebro, an American volunteer gets his hair cut. Americans fought in almost all the major campaigns of the war, from this one, in scorching heat measured one day at 98° F in the shade and 134° in the sun, to the capture of Teruel, in blizzards where the temperature once dropped to -18° F. Some 2800 Americans went to Spain, and about 750 were killed there. They came from 46 states and included the grandchildren of slaves, coal miners, a vaudeville acrobat, a rabbi, longshoremen, factory workers, and the son of a former governor of Ohio. The first American combat casualty was a senior from Swarthmore College.

Credit: Harry Randall Fifteenth International Brigade Films and Photographs collection, courtesy of the Tamiment Library, New York University.

George Orwell

George Orwell (center, tall), and his wife Eileen, surrounded by members of his militia unit, on a day she visited the front. Orwell served four months in the trenches, until he was hit by a bullet that passed through his neck, barely missing his carotid artery. Although his unit was a mixture of Spaniards and Britons, an American volunteer, Harry Milton of New York (crouching, with rifle), was standing next to him when he was wounded and helped stop the bleeding. Eileen worked in Barcelona in the same office as another American, Charles Orr. He and a British comrade were with her on the day she visited her husband at the front.

Credit: Hoover Institution Archives, Harry Milton Papers, Box 1.

Torkild Rieber

We think of Franco’s allies as being in Rome and Berlin. But one of the most important was in an office high in the Chrysler Building in New York City. Torkild Rieber was CEO of Texaco—and a Fascist sympathizer. Rieber not only sold Franco’s Nationalists most of their oil, but violated American neutrality law by selling it on credit and sending it to Spain in American ships.

He also quietly gave Franco a huge discount, and supplied him with a secret stream of strategic intelligence. Spain in Our Hearts is the first time this full story has been told in English.

Credit: DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Robert Yarnall Richie Photograph Collection.

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New York Times best-seller

“Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild’s] book so intimate and moving is its human scale.”
—Dwight Garner, New York Times

"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, it is well-paced and meant to be read rather than studied."
—New Republic

“Admirable . . . an unusually well-written narrative, full of telling detail and vignettes that capture great human drama.”
—Wall Street Journal

“A commanding performance. Digging through archives, Hochschild finds characters whose lives … pull the war into tight, human-scale focus … After reading Hochschild’s book, it’s impossible to feel anything but admiration — and awe.”
— San Francisco Chronicle

“The tragic story of the Americans in the doomed Lincoln Brigade . . . comes vividly to life in Adam Hochschild’s compelling ‘Spain in Our Hearts,’ a long-overdue book that explores this long-overlooked conflict.”
—Los Angeles Times

"By assembling a well-chosen set of individual narratives, many about figures who are relatively unknown, [Hochschild] captures why so many people thought the fate of the world might be decided by who won the conflict ... Consistently vivid ... Captivating."
—New York Times Book Review

"A vivid and level-headed new history of American participation in the Spanish Civil War."
 —The New Yorker

“Excellent … Hochschild captures both the passionate, partisan views of particular combatants and the larger political currents that shaped their experiences. It’s a moving and useful investigation into the dangers and promises of idealism.”
— Christian Science Monitor

"Exemplary . . . Moving and powerful."
—Seattle Times

"The book’s narrative is driven by Hochschild’s deft handling of the personal stories, some heartbreaking, of a half dozen Americans . . . highly engaging . . .  A book like Hochschild’s keeps their stories and spirit alive."
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A sweeping, suspenseful, and somber chronicle of the Spanish Civil War … Mak[es] superb use of diaries and letters.”
— Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“Hochschild tells the story of this heady time with moving, well-paced prose exploring both international policy and intensely personal experiences … Exceptional.”
— Los Angeles Review of Books

“A fine new chronicle of Americans … determined to do their part to fight fascism. One’s heart breaks to read what awaited them.”
— Dallas Morning News

“Brings history alive … Hochschild is a writer capable of making any topic interesting, relevant, and accessible … Spain in Our Hearts is a primer, a meditation, and a story of American adventure abroad.”
— Tampa Bay Times

“Well-paced … Closes on a poignant note of mourning and remembrance.”
— Boston Globe

“Hochschild is an exceptional writer; his narrative is well-paced, delivered in clear prose, and focused on important and colorful details of the historical moment.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A dramatically personal book . . . A vivid addition to twentieth-century European history collections.”
—Booklist, starred review

"A nuanced look at the messy international allegiances forged during the Spanish Civil War . . . Hochschild ably explores subtle shades of the conflict that contemporary authors and participants did not want to consider."
—Kirkus Reviews

“George Orwell once explained that going to Spain, in 1936, ‘seemed the only conceivable thing to do.’ As soon as he got there, the right thing to do got a lot less clear. And how to write about it was immediately difficult, too. The twenty-eight hundred Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War felt the same way, as Adam Hochschild recounts in this rich and fascinating book. Few writers grapple so powerfully with the painful moral and ethical choices of past actors as does Hochschild, who brings to Spain in Our Hearts his exceptional talents — and his moral seriousness — as a reporter, as a historian, and as a writer.”
—JILL LEPORE, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman 


“In this beautifully written portrait of Americans caught up in the Spanish Civil War, Adam Hochschild brings to brilliant life the heroism and horror of that fratricidal conflict. His account of the David-and-Goliath fight between the ragtag army of idealistic, pro-democracy  volunteers and the mechanized, murderous forces of Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini is one of the most powerful narratives I have ever read.”
—LYNNE OLSON, author of Citizens of London

“Spain in Our Hearts is narrative non-fiction at its very best. Hochschild’s achievement is to make this trial-by-combat story come alive, as if it were happening now. It is impossible for a reader not to identify and feel compassion for those sons and daughters of America who risked and often gave their lives for a cause that could not ultimately prevail against the darker forces of Franco, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin – and Texaco. A seamlessly-woven, unputdownable tapestry of war in Europe; intensely, unforgettably moving.”
—NIGEL HAMILTON, author of The Mantle of Command 

“Beautifully written with a hawk-eye for the telling anecdote, Spain in Our Hearts constitutes an endlessly fascinating and utterly unputdownable survey of the war to defend democracy in Spain that was not only the first act of the Second World War but also, for many across the world, the last great cause.”
PAUL PRESTON, author of The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge

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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War told through a dozen unforgettable characters: a tale of idealism, suffering, and a tragically doomed yet noble cause

For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a Fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. It was the century s first modern, total war, but it was soon overshadowed by the world war that it helped introduce. Today it is mostly remembered through just a few classic accounts: Ernest Hemingway s novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, George Orwell s memoirs, Robert Capa s photographs. But in Spain in Our Hearts, Adam Hochschild presents equally compelling characters and weaves their stories together to reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war.

Through the eyes of Lois Orr, a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman whose honeymoon in wartime Spain turned into an extended stay, we experience the blossoming of Barcelona as a workers utopia, before its dark descent into Stalinist purges. We meet a Swarthmore College senior who was the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid; a pair of fiercely partisan, rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the war from opposite sides; and a swashbuckling Texas oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his oil at reduced prices, and on credit. At the center of Hochschild s account is an American couple, widely admired on the war s front lines, and their inspiring, heartbreaking love story.

The Spanish Civil War was in many was the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. Spain in Our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best.

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Adam Hochschild (pronunciation: ''Hoch'' as in "spoke"; ''schild'' as in "build") published his first book, "Half the Way Home" in 1986. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it "an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection." His "Bury the Chains" was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Two of his books, “To End All Wars” and “King Leopold’s Ghost,” have been finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The American Historical Association gave Hochschild its 2008 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, a prize given each year to someone outside the academy who has made a significant contribution to the study of history. "Hochschild is a superb writer who makes light work of heavy subjects," wrote Jennifer Szalai in reviewing his “Rebel Cinderella” for The New York Times.

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  • DH Koester
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you Mr. Hochschild
    Reviewed in the United States on September 1, 2016
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    Its the mid thirties, the United States was struggling to emerge from the Great Depression under FDR, Stalin was in power in the Soviet Union and Mussolini in Italy who had once again invaded Ethiopia. Hitler was busy consolidating his power in Germany and building a formidable military machine, just a few years away from invading Czechoslovakia and beginning WWII . Against this grim backdrop, a glimmer of hope for mankind---Spain elects a new government under President Caballero and adopts as its mission the betterment of the lives of its citizens who for years had been mired in poverty and hopelessness. Like never before the people of Spain had a say in their government. There was an explosion of euphoria in Spain shared in large part by the people of the world who saw Spain as a beacon in a sea of darkness. People world-wide held their breath and watched as the new government embarked on their great social experiment--land distribution and programs for the poor. Heretofore power had been in the hands of the military and the majority of the county's land and wealth held by less than 1 % of the populace. To help pay for these programs the military budget had to be reduced. The military was outraged. Enter General Franco and the Civil war was on. The Nationalists under Franco vs the Republicans under the new duly elected government of the people.
    Supporting the Nationalists--Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, the Catholic Church (who participated in executions and book burnings), America's Texaco Oil Company (without whose oil the Republic might have prevailed) and America's Hearst Newspaper chain.
    Supporting the Republic-- Cardena's Mexico, Stalin's Soviet Union, the Republic's citizen army, George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway who fought alongside the Republicans and idealists and dreamers everywhere. Forty thousand men and women from more than 50 countries rushed to the aid of the Republic among them several thousand from America who formed the Abraham Brigade. In all there were five International brigades made up of men and women ready to lay down their lives for the Spanish people.
    It was a lost cause for the Spanish people. Despite the fact that large segments of their populace pleaded for their government's intervention the governments of the United States, Great Britain and France stood by and watched as Spain burned beneath German air power and the fascist Italian ground troops. Soon after the entire world was at war with the Germans and Italians. Perhaps it could all have been avoided had the Allies stepped in to defend Spain.
    Years ago I had the privilege of attending one of the last annual get togethers and dinners of the surviving members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. At that time there were only a handful still alive and recently I read where the last survivor had passed away. These volunteers were the best of humankind. As Che Guevara once said "To be a revolutionary requires great love for ones people."
    Hochschild's book is a masterpiece--so well written, so encompassing, so well researched. After reading it I felt as if I had lived it. Being an idealist myself it is likely I would have joined the Lincoln Brigade had the timing been right. I admire the men and women of the world that rushed to the side of the Spanish people and I do not think a book could better capture the drama, the history, the hardship, the sacrifice, and the tragedy than "Spain in our Hearts".
    This story was summed up before Hochschild even began it when in the Prologue he quoted the great novelist Albert Camus who said "Men of my generation have had Spain in their hearts...It was there that they learned....that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded."
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  • Michael Griswold
    4.0 out of 5 stars Spain in Someone’s Heart
    Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2017
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    Spain in Our Hearts is the story of a forgotten civil war in Spain. It is a forgotten civil war because it was eclipsed by the brutality and violence of World War II. The principal characters of the story are the groups of Americans who fought on both the Nationalist and Republican sides over the future of Spain, even as the American government either appeared indifferent to the war in Spain or struggled to formulate a policy that was coherent due to the complications of World War II. But still people died fighting a war in the shadows of a larger conflict.

    Hochschild really brings the human side of the conflict home as the reader is able to feel the loved ones, friends, and fellow soldiers who were lost. It really gives a reader the extra jolt that says “this conflict should’ve mattered more.” I would suggest that if it had been just a few years later it might have but the geopolitical context wasn’t there for it to matter.

    With a unique blend of human intrigue and geopolitical frustrations, Spain in Our Hearts is a moving and highly readable account of that other war of the 1930s and 40s.
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  • Interested customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars An engrossing book about a horrible parctice bout for WW II
    Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2016
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    Other reviews paint Hochschild as a Leftist, which certainly isn't me. And occasionally, as I read, I surmised he wasn't of my tribe. BUT--he is, subject to my one minor criticism below, a fine writer, telling a fascinating story of the practice war for WW II. And perhaps it is a story that can best be told by a Left-leaning author who might well, back in the mid-30's, have been tempted to join in the forces of right and honor. Only to discover, as did so many of those who made the arduous journey to Spain, that there is seldom a right or a wrong in a war; that the merits, if any, of one's cause are usually irrelevant if the other side has more and better arms; and that decisions by foreign powers about how much of their manpower and weaponry should be dedicated to what was happening in Spain are unlikely to take into account the needs of their proxies risking their lives there.

    To me, this is the real story of this horrible war--that somehow a brutal dictatorship in a backward country could become the shining light on the hill luring some otherwise intelligent people to a fight about which, they learned, they really knew nothing; and that this dream was then shattered by the reality of bullets and bombs, and the obvious indifference of the Russians to these misguided souls. How did they feel, when, having struggled to reach Spain and join the fray, it quickly became apparent that they were on the losing side, but couldn't get out of the war nearly as easily as they got in it.

    SO--an excellent read, with this reservation: I came to the story with little knowledge of ithe Spanish revolution.. I learned that there were "Republicans," and there were "Nationalists,." To my constant confusion, the Nationalists, whom I kept thinking must be the government folk, were the revolutionaries, and they were basically proxies for Germany and Italy. The Republicans, on the other hand, were the forces of the government, but, again to my surprise, they were the darlings of the left and of the Russians. That's tough enough, but Hochschild wasn't able to find a single word that always meant "government) or "revolutionary"--I had to keep remembering the various names by which each was called.

    Which if, as they, is the worst I can offer, that really isn't too bad. And it wasn't, but it made the redsing a little bumpier for me. Otherwise I was thoroughly pleased with the book.

    AMD, subject to that one nittlint comment5, I felt the fook was a reaqlly worthwhile read. I learned a lolt, not jus aout the specifics of this Warl but the horrors of all wars for those fighting them, especially when it suddenly appears to warriors on one side or the other than they are going to down in defeat.
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  • ColourSurround
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Insight into the Spanish Civil War with Focus on the Contribution of Individual Americans
    Reviewed in Canada on August 7, 2020
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    I really enjoyed this book.

    I had picked it up wanting to learn more about the Spanish Civil War, and not really caring in particular about what individual Americans had contributed, but their stories, and the way they were written was incredibly compelling so that the entire narrative fit together seamlessly. Hochschild also did a great job outlining the broader contributions of internationals in general, what they experienced, and why they felt the need to join a foreign war. Besides, when one of these characters is Ernest Hemingway, it's hard not to want to do a deeper dive into that.

    I recommend this book for anyone wanting to further their understanding of the Spanish Civil war, and the further implications it had on the progression of WWII. It is an excellent way to spend a few hours of your life.
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  • V. Perry Child
    5.0 out of 5 stars Reglo
    Reviewed in Spain on January 21, 2023
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    Regalo para mi hijo que es profesor de historia y muy enteresado en el tema de la guerra civil. No lo tenia y dice que es muy interesante.
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  • Vivian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Informative book on Spanish civil war!
    Reviewed in Germany on September 18, 2022
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    This is a very well written book about famous Americans that were part of the spanish civil war. This was a gift and was highly appreciated! I would recommend buying this for any history buff.
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  • Cliente Amazon
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent historical analysis of the Spanish Civil War.
    Reviewed in Spain on February 4, 2017
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    Spain in Our Hearts gave an excellent description and historical analysis of the factors leading to the Spanish Civil War. In provided insight into the external factors affecting the Spanish population and the events leading to the greater European war. I've read a few Adam Hochschild books and I've never been disappointed.
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  • Jean-Jacques Bourgeault
    4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating episode in the history of the USA
    Reviewed in Canada on November 2, 2018
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    The Great Depression moved the world towards the dreams and promises of Bolchevists and the US was not an exception.
    Many Americans and Canadians felt a need to act and this translated in a significant participation in the Spanish civil war with sometimes serious personal sacrifices including death.
    This book describes a difficult period in a balanced and objective manner.
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