I read the whole thing b/c there was important & interesting information, but this author did not really have the range to write this book lol. She has a college freshman‘s analysis of concepts like race, class & nationalism, and she chooses to write from the perspective of empires and states instead of a “people‘s history”… plus the chapter naming convention barely makes sense 😒 Ambitious but ultimately pretty superficial.
pickI didn‘t know much about the Spanish Civil War before I read. Know I‘ve learned who fought on each side:
The Republicans, fighting for the elected government, the socialists, the communists, the anarchist with support from Soviet
The Nationalists with leader Franco, the monarchists, the fascists, the church with support from Germany and Italy
As I was reading about the fighting one line from the Norwegian poet‘s Nordahl Grieg poem
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Doing a segment on Dad Bios/Dad History. Wondering if any of these count?
Birth and death rituals in different places fascinating.
"The routine of death in Madrid [is a] well-trodden path. The dead are carted off to the the city's official morgue. ....Beautified by morticians, they are laid out... and put on public display so friends and family can make a final, posthumous visit ...with vigils going on for up to twenty-six dead, all neatly arranged in adjoining cubicles, the sanatorio bustles like a railway terminus.
The Civil War was also a bloodbath that pitted brother against brother and neighbour against neighbour. By the time the guns had stopped smoking and Franco had signed his final parte de guerra on 1 April 1939, some half a million Spaniards were dead. There are no exact figures, but it is thought that some 200,000 were executed by the two sides....
One in thirty Spanish men were dead.
Was the soldier of "Tis but a scratch" inspired by this?!!! I wonder!
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Downey is very clearly, not a historian, and there are some factual inaccuracies so far.Also she's very, very biased-Visigoth attacks are described as people looking to expand territory,Ottoman attacks are described as despicable barbarians out for plunder,among several such very clear biases.Im still continuing with the book because it's the first I've read to deal with Isabella La Catolica
