For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Spanish Civil War & 20th Century

June 2002 Issue

Raymond Carr

A Good Way to Die

Doves of War: Four Women of Spain

By Paul Preston

October 2020 Issue

Helen Graham

They Went to Spain

The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

By Giles Tremlett

February 2018 Issue

Nicholas Rankin

Art of War

Guernica: Painting the End of the World

By James Attlee

September 1998 Issue

Raymond Carr

How Stalin Ruined the Spanish Republic

Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War

By Gerald Howson

April 2016 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Farewell to Arms

Spain in our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

By Adam Hochschild

The Last Days of the Spanish Republic

By Paul Preston

October 2008 Issue

Michael Jacobs

Into the Rebel Zone

We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War

By Paul Preston

October 2012 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Intellectuals-at-Arms

I am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men & Women Who Went to Fight Fascism

By David Boyd Haycock

Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism

By Richard Baxell

March 2014 Issue

Frederic Raphael

In the Caudillo’s Shadow

Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936

By Jeremy Treglown

Kevin Jackson

We Need to Talk about Pablo

Picasso and Truth: From Cubism to Guernica

By T J Clark

July 2013 Issue

Michael Jacobs

The Quiet Englishman

The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic: A Witness to the Spanish Civil War

By Henry Buckley