Guernica

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There is that sense of the rich cornucopia of characters and topics which, as I mentioned before, is what got me interested in the subject all those years ago. This a very good novel indeed-and a crucial reminder that genocidal folly is never as far away from us as we might wish.

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Before we talk about your five books, tell us about what first got you interested in the Spanish Civil War.But as he indicated in Homage to Catalonia, he thought the Communists were committing a disaster by targeting, and at times killing, anti-Stalinist leftists — as he famously described in his account of the fighting at Barcelona’s Telephone Exchange.

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On 5 February 2003 a large blue curtain was placed to cover over the work at the UN, so that it would not be visible in the background during press conferences by Colin Powell and John Negroponte as they were arguing in favor of war on Iraq. It would harp on the fact that he was not a full-time staff member at the Times while covering that story. He has always owned his own land, and he has never known a landless class” — a romanticized notion, since workers in Basque factories were often paid poor wages. Created in 1937 at the height of the Spanish Civil War, it has in the 85 years since become a universal statement about human suffering in the face of political violence. I also have a huge collection on the Spanish Civil War and some of the jewels in my collection were given to me by him.

What wasn’t known was exactly who had pulled the trigger and, of course, the bigger mystery was why.