Adam Hochschild | Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
Historian Adam Hochschild is the author of the National Book Critic’s Circle Award finalist King Leopold’s Ghost, a haunting portrait of Belgium’s 19th-century brutal colonization of the Congo. His many awards include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. He is cofounder of Mother Jones magazine. His other books include an illuminating study of the atrocities of Stalinist Russia (The Unquiet Ghost), a history of the antislavery movement in the British Empire (Bury the Chains), and a chronicle of WWI’s moral critics and dissenters (To End All Wars). Told from the perspectives of famous and little-known participants and observers, Spain in Our Hearts tells the story of heartbreaking civil war.
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