“As night fell, the euphoria of victory turned into a festival - a festival of the masses in the streets of the city. Expropriated cars, painted with the initials CNT-FAI, careered through the streets hooting horns - da-da-da-daah - in imitation of the hastily painted initials. Here and there an assault guard, even a civil guard, could be seen in a car, tunic unbuttoned, in shirt-sleeves, giving the clenched fist salute.”
Fraser’s sweeping narrative from conversations with more than three hundred survivors of Spain's civil war, an event near enough to be vividly remembered by participants on all sides: merchants and workers, landowners and laborers, communists, socialists, anarchists, monarchists, Falangists, soldiers, priests, and church-burners.
Author: Ronald Fraser
Title: Blood of Spain: An Oral History of the Spanish Civil War
Edition: First American Edition, first printing
Published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1979
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 628p
Condition: Ex-library copy. Good condition dust jacket with edge wear, moderate chipping, mild creasing, adhesive residue on spine panel, and toning—in protector. Boards and spine with edge wear, bumping to corners, adhesive residue on boards, damp-staining at tail of back board, and crushing at spine ends. Binding solid and square. Pages toned. Typical library markings throughout. Back end-paper removed. Damp-staining to portion of text block at tail.
Comments: Solid vintage copy
