Spain + Spanish history

Book Reviews

• Sebastian Balfour, Paul Preston: Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Century
  - from 1898 to Felipe Gonzalez
• Franz Borkenau: The Spanish Cockpit
  An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
• Gerald Brenan: South From Granada
  - settling in an Andalusian village with 2000 books
• Robert Capa: Heart of Spain
  Photographs of the Spanish Civil War
• Javier Cercas: Soldiers of Salamis
  - villains and heroes of the Spanish Civil War
• J.H. Elliott: Scots & Catalans
  - a history of two nations within states
• Ronald Fraser: Blood of Spain**
  An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
• Ronald Fraser: Tajos
  The Story of a Village on the Costa del Sol
• Juan Goytisolo: Marks of Identity*
  - youth between Franco's Spain and exile
• Judith Keene: The Last Mile to Huesca
  An Australian Nurse in the Spanish Civil War
• Juan Luis Arsuaga: The Neanderthal's Necklace*
  In Search of the First Thinkers
• Garrett Mattingly: The Defeat of the Spanish Armada*
  - a popular account of the dramatic events of 1587 and 1588
• Mary Nash: Defying Male Civilization
  Women in the Spanish Civil War
• George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia
  - a volunteer's first-hand account of the Spanish civil war
• Serge Pey: The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War
  - powerful stories of childhood and exile
• Carla Rahn Philips, William D. Philips Jr: Spain's Golden Fleece
  Wool Production and the Wool Trade from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
• Josep Pla: Salt Water
  - stories of the north Catalan coast
• Jaime Vicens Vives: Approaches to the History of Spain
  - short essays on topics from prehistory to the civil war

I became fascinated by the Spanish Civil War when I was a student, researching an essay on anarchism for a philosophy course.

I have spent one weekend in Spain, visiting second cousins in Barcelona, and would really like to see more: Andalusia and the Alhambra, the Picos de Europa, the Pyrenees, Madrid and Toledo... I could spend a week just in Barcelona!