Giles Tremlett
Autor/a de Ghosts of Spain
Sobre l'autor
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- Nom oficial
- Tremlett, Giles E. H.
- Data de naixement
- 1962
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- South Africa
Tanzania
Kenya
Turkey
Germany
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain (mostra-les totes 9)
Lisbon, Portugal
London, England, UK
Madrid, Spain - Educació
- University of Oxford (Human Sciences) (1984)
University of Barcelona
University of Lisbon - Professions
- journalist
- Biografia breu
- Giles Tremlett is a prize-winning historian, author and journalist based in Madrid, Spain. He has lived in, and written extensively about, Spain almost continuously since graduating from Oxford University thirty years ago.
He is Fellow of the Cañada Blanch Centre at the London School of Economics and Contributing Editor at The Guardian and . He previously wrote for The Economist magazine.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 5
- Membres
- 1,241
- Popularitat
- #20,684
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 49
- ISBN
- 43
- Llengües
- 4
If nothing else, the author wants to emphasize that this force was not really a "Comintern army," but a band of anti-fascists who were anything but "premature" in taking up arms against the looming menace; even if they somewhat fell into the nets of the Stalinist menace. One of the most interesting points of Tremlett's narrative is the varied ways the survivors kept on fighting, and were actually a future elite in many countries, such as the DDR and Tito's Yugoslavia. That enough survivors lived long enough to be honored by the modern Spanish republic is testament to their legacy.
So, as for my caveats, one would hope with as long as a book as this is, you could read it as a history of the Spanish Civil War in total, but the story of the war, and Tremlett's history of the brigades aren't congruent enough for that. Also, though Tremlett is a good military historian, a little more nuts-and-bolts history might be necessary for the casual reader to appreciate what's going on. In the first case, one might want to have first read Anthony Beevor's second edition of "The Battle for Spain." In the second case, Osprey Publishing has brought out a number of relevant booklets on this conflict over the years, and I think that, in particular, Ken Bradley's "International Brigades in Spain 1936-39" holds up quite well; even though it was published in 1994.… (més)