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Blood of Spain:An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War

Ronald Fraser

Pimlico 1994A book review by Danny Yee © 1997 http://dannyreviews.com/The Spanish civil war is, for me, the great tragedy of twentiethcentury history. In quantitative horror it pales beside the Holocaustand many other events, but it has all the classical elements of tragedy:a combination of inevitableness and contingency, the gradual closing ofpossibilities, and human and organisational flaws aplenty. And it isnot one tragedy but many: the failure of the social revolution and itsdestruction by the communists; the dilemmas of the Basque and Catalanbourgeoisie, caught between the military and the social revolution;the folly of Non-Intervention; innumerable personal tragedies; and thefinal obliteration of hopes and aspirations, of plans and alternatives,beneath the grim tide of Francoism.Blood of Spain succeeds better than anything else I have read on thecivil war in capturing these tragedies. Formal histories lack immediacy,while personal accounts offer only a single perspective; Blood of Spainis an oral history of the war built around the memories and storiesof hundreds of people from all political allegiances and all walks oflife — combatants and non-combatants, men and women, rich and poor.It joins short segments of direct quotation with narrative links toproduce personal accounts of individual episodes; these are supplementedwith quotations from newspapers, laws, and political texts. The resultcaptures something of how the war affected those caught up in it andwhat they felt and thought — some individuals are followed throughoutthe war — but individual accounts are also grouped so as to place keyevents and themes within a broader perspective.Rather than trying to cover the whole country, Fraser concentrates onparticular areas: Madrid, Catalonia and Barcelona, Seville and Andalusia,Asturias/Vizcaya, and Old Castile. Otherwise, Blood of Spain covers thewhole sweep of the war, from the first uprising in July 1936 through tothe end at Alicante and the fate of the conquered (and the conquerors)in the immediate aftermath of the war. It closes with fifty pages ofmaterial in the same style on the "points of rupture" during the yearsleading up to the civil war — land, religion and the petit bourgeoisie,Catalan and Basque nationalism, the relationship of the libertarians(anarchists) to the Republic and of the communists to the Popular Front,and the role of the army.Blood of Spain is an ideal complement to a more traditional history ofthe civil war, but it could be read by itself, even as an introduction forthe reader totally unfamiliar with the war. Sections of chronologicalnarrative and summaries of the history and background provide linksbetween the personal accounts, and the volume has a good set of maps, achronology, a glossary of Spanish terms, and a list of organisations.Blood of Spain is one of the most effective works of oral history Ihave read and one of the best books on the Spanish Civil War.December 1997External links:- buy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.ukRelated reviews:- Ronald Fraser - Tajos: The Story of a Village on the Costa del Sol- books about Spain + Spanish history- books about war + military history- books published by Pimlico- other "best book" selections%T Blood of Spain%S An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War%A Fraser, Ronald%I Pimlico%D 1994 [1979]%O paperback, bibliography, index%G ISBN 0712660143%P 628ppSubjects |Titles |Authors |Best Books |Search |LatestBook Reviews by Danny Yee

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