Spain: The Vital Years
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few political upheavals of the twentieth century have been as violently contested — in both blood and ink — as the Spanish Civil War, and Spain: The Vital Years stands as one of the most intimate and authoritative firsthand accounts of that tumultuous era. Luis Bolin, the journalist who personally organised the aircraft that flew General Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco to launch the Nationalist uprising in 1936, chronicles the ideological fractures, military campaigns, and diplomatic intrigues that tore a nation apart and set the stage for World War II. Writing from the perspective of an embedded insider rather than a detached observer, Bolin presents a vivid, partisan yet richly detailed narrative of the political forces — Republican, Nationalist, Communist, and Anarchist — that collided catastrophically on Spanish soil. Bolstered by a foreword from the distinguished British historian Sir Arthur Bryant, the work carries significant literary and historical weight, situating Spain's internal conflict within the broader currents of European fascism and Soviet expansionism. Bolin's prose is urgent and unapologetic, coloured by personal conviction and the authority of direct experience, making it an essential — if contested — primary source for students of Spanish history. For those who wish to understand the war not merely as a conflict of armies but as a battle for the soul of a civilisation, this account raises questions that history has never fully resolved.
Author: Luis Bolin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, J. B. Lippincott Company
Genre: European history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few political upheavals of the twentieth century have been as violently contested — in both blood and ink — as the Spanish Civil War, and Spain: The Vital Years stands as one of the most intimate and authoritative firsthand accounts of that tumultuous era. Luis Bolin, the journalist who personally organised the aircraft that flew General Francisco Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco to launch the Nationalist uprising in 1936, chronicles the ideological fractures, military campaigns, and diplomatic intrigues that tore a nation apart and set the stage for World War II. Writing from the perspective of an embedded insider rather than a detached observer, Bolin presents a vivid, partisan yet richly detailed narrative of the political forces — Republican, Nationalist, Communist, and Anarchist — that collided catastrophically on Spanish soil. Bolstered by a foreword from the distinguished British historian Sir Arthur Bryant, the work carries significant literary and historical weight, situating Spain's internal conflict within the broader currents of European fascism and Soviet expansionism. Bolin's prose is urgent and unapologetic, coloured by personal conviction and the authority of direct experience, making it an essential — if contested — primary source for students of Spanish history. For those who wish to understand the war not merely as a conflict of armies but as a battle for the soul of a civilisation, this account raises questions that history has never fully resolved.