The Spanish Front: Writers on the Civil War

The Spanish Civil War - the most momentous political and cultural flashpoint of the nineteen-thirties - struck deep into the conscience and consciousness of the West. This anthology presents a vivid, moving, and often surprising, cross-section of the writing it generated - prose and poetry, public and private, documentary and fictional, convinced and doubting, Right-wing as well as Left. Many of the contributors, though by no means all of their contributions - are well known: others far less so. The distinctive participation of women writers is here recognized and represented for the first time. 'Spanish Front' shows writers taking sides; reflecting on the War's progress in essays, diaries, letters, journalism, poems, stories, and novels; reporting their visits to the fighting zones; and expressing their varioous hopes, satisfactions, horrors, and despairs. Greene, Jarrell, Isherwood, Beckett, Pound, Weil, Spender, Campbell, Koestler, Bernanos, Yeats, Cornford, Lewis, Jameson, MacNeice, Trotsky, Powell, Woolf, Huxley, Lehmann, Ackland, Dos Passos, Brittain, Regler, Auden Connolly, Eliot, Grigson, Saint-exupery, Hemingway, Orwell, Romilly....