Nick Lloyd Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Nick Lloyd

My favourite single book on the Spanish Civil War, at least in English, is perhaps Helen Graham's The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction. Concise, illuminating and brilliant. There's also a well narrated audio version. See also her brilliant The War and its shadow... https://t.co/GCjpUI44IT

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Eileen Blair. Married George Orwell and followed him to Barcelona in 1937, where she helped run IndependentLabourParty office. Orwell, of his time, only refers her in Homage as "my wife". Wrote poem in 1938 "End of the Century, 1984" foreshadowing Orwell https://t.co/nMuot6h3cr https://t.co/dkAdxC79R4

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This has been my summer reading. A new history of Islamic Spain by Brian A Catlos. Insightful, comprehensive, stripping away clichés and told with a thumping narrative. Puts the Islamic periods firmly inside Spanish history. Highly recommended. https://t.co/hVHJ44qY3w

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Looking forward to reading @stephenburgen's latest collection of short stories. "The Jacket", partly located in Barcelona https://t.co/skPvotHvgV https://t.co/yrBinz18me https://t.co/cWNjPkH3Te

Nick Lloyd

My favourite single book on the Spanish Civil War, at least in English, is perhaps Helen Graham's The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction. Concise, illuminating and brilliant. There's also a well narrated audio version. See also her brilliant The War and its shadow... https://t.co/GCjpUI44IT

Nick Lloyd

Two International Brigader descendants on the tour today, both Ebro Battle. 1 Fiderer Koppel, Jewish Austrian, later French resistance in liberation of Toulouse. 2. Archie Brown (pic), Jewish US. Abraham Lincoln Batallion, later eg battle of Bulge, WW2. Both survived+died in US https://t.co/jCWoCpsQZw

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Among most interesting+truly original books on the Spanish Civil War is The Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War (Volver a las Trincheras in Spanish) by Alfredo González-Ruibal of @GuerraenlaUni. I often return to it with its intimate, sometimes tragic everyday stories of objects https://t.co/slti8N4xzs

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This is an interesting list of "neglected" novels/memoirs in English about the Spanish Civil War. 3-4 are rather well known in Spain. Only read 4 and 2 I've never heard of. Reading article author Sarah Watling new book Tomorrow Perhaps the Future at mo. https://t.co/Ye2oGnTO63

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I must confess I have never read Bernardo Atxaga's by many accounts 1988 groundbreaking novel in Basque Obabakoak but I love the fact that it has been translated into Farsi, Albanian, Arabic and Korean among many others. On the piles to read https://t.co/jNPwfrl0WV https://t.co/Bwtgpix2VM

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@Patrick_Barlow_ @MPeakeOfficial @IBMT_SCW @LincolnBrigade @ClarkeMicah Excellent introduction. Also try Helen Graham's a very short introduction to ..