Hello! Thanks for checking out the Warehouse. If you like this sort of thing, please share it widely ( Restacks preferred!).
Audience participation is strongly encouraged here at The Partisan, so if you have suggestions for the Warehouse add them in the comments. Please focus on proper historical sources (documents, books, and so on). This project is meant to be scholarly in nature.
Remember, more lives than your own may rely on your historical literacy.
recently did The Battle for Spain as an audiobook - found it to be very informative. It was my first deep dive into the subject. Really appreciate the full list of resources.
This is seriously awesome! As an old and aging book nerd, Hemingway made me want to be a writer. As a child I was fascinated by Hemingway himself, but For Whom The Bell Tolls, was a favorite book, though I am very fond of the novella The Old Man and The Sea. Truth is I love them all. Hemingway is great reading.
It was through reading about Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War that I discovered George Orwell, which lead to reading The Gulag Archipelago... Which lead to not only many other authors, but becoming fascinated with polemics, and a lifelong disgust for politics, politicians, and the lickspittles who prop them up and polish their boots. My disdain for Government/War started with Hemingway.
Thanks for the list of reading and viewing materials. I'm excited to get started.
I read the book by Beevor some years ago and found it excellent. It’s somewhere on one of my bookshelves but I couldn’t find it right away. Hopefully we don’t have a similar situation in the States!
I just finished the "Very Short Introduction" to the SCW by Helen Graham. I knew very, very little about the war before I started the book and I feel like I have a decent grasp of it's contours now. It doesn't spend much time on battles, but spends ample time on the cultural/political/economic context of the war as well as the international reactions to it, which is really the most interesting part to me. I think it's a really useful as an introduction, and it has definitely made me interested in learning more--which imo is the best marker for this sort of book! Excited to read your substack and the works you recommend here.
"The Victorious Counter-Revolution" by Michael Seidman is excellent. He comes to the conclusion that the Nationalists were much better at marshalling the resources of the territories they controlled. They also did a better job of maintaining unity despite some major differences in the coalition. These are usually overlooked in the discussions of why they won.
I could add the German book „Franco befreit Spanien“, meaning „Franco liberates Spain“. It was written in Germany by Dagobert Mikusch in 1939. As it is in German only, it does not belong here, I suppose.
After reading it, I concluded that Franco was actually a pretty nice guy. He fended off communism and anarchism, which was pretty big in Spain at the time.
There is a law now in Spain that sanctions stating anything positive about Franco.
Hello! Thanks for checking out the Warehouse. If you like this sort of thing, please share it widely ( Restacks preferred!).
Audience participation is strongly encouraged here at The Partisan, so if you have suggestions for the Warehouse add them in the comments. Please focus on proper historical sources (documents, books, and so on). This project is meant to be scholarly in nature.
Remember, more lives than your own may rely on your historical literacy.
Thanks.
That picture horrified me when I was a little kid
Working as intended. :)
If you have Spotify premium, Beevor’s book “The Battle for Spain” listed above is available in audio book : https://open.spotify.com/show/59QNaqazijPqwgYWEqkdsF?si=TegC_s43RCO5EngTIwitwA
I've added all the YouTube episodes in my watch later list. Now it's time to make some popcorn.
My sole awareness of the Spanish Civil War has been the painting Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937. Here are 9 paintings of the time. https://www.thecollector.com/spanish-civil-war-art/
Added!
recently did The Battle for Spain as an audiobook - found it to be very informative. It was my first deep dive into the subject. Really appreciate the full list of resources.
I added that one at some stage. Beevor, yes?
This is seriously awesome! As an old and aging book nerd, Hemingway made me want to be a writer. As a child I was fascinated by Hemingway himself, but For Whom The Bell Tolls, was a favorite book, though I am very fond of the novella The Old Man and The Sea. Truth is I love them all. Hemingway is great reading.
It was through reading about Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War that I discovered George Orwell, which lead to reading The Gulag Archipelago... Which lead to not only many other authors, but becoming fascinated with polemics, and a lifelong disgust for politics, politicians, and the lickspittles who prop them up and polish their boots. My disdain for Government/War started with Hemingway.
Thanks for the list of reading and viewing materials. I'm excited to get started.
Cheers!
Nice start! I'm glad you're doing this.
It's been an age since I read For Whom the Bell Tolls. I should dust it off.
Excellent work. I went to Spain in HS, but learned basically nothing about the SCW. Those that don’t learn the lessons of history…
Thanks for making this! I'm sure I'll read it again and again to really hammer it into my brain.
I read the book by Beevor some years ago and found it excellent. It’s somewhere on one of my bookshelves but I couldn’t find it right away. Hopefully we don’t have a similar situation in the States!
I just finished the "Very Short Introduction" to the SCW by Helen Graham. I knew very, very little about the war before I started the book and I feel like I have a decent grasp of it's contours now. It doesn't spend much time on battles, but spends ample time on the cultural/political/economic context of the war as well as the international reactions to it, which is really the most interesting part to me. I think it's a really useful as an introduction, and it has definitely made me interested in learning more--which imo is the best marker for this sort of book! Excited to read your substack and the works you recommend here.
"The Victorious Counter-Revolution" by Michael Seidman is excellent. He comes to the conclusion that the Nationalists were much better at marshalling the resources of the territories they controlled. They also did a better job of maintaining unity despite some major differences in the coalition. These are usually overlooked in the discussions of why they won.
ty. nice list of references to grow from.
Read Hugh Thomas' The Spanish Civil War a few years ago and thought it was very good.
https://archive.org/details/spanishcivilwar0000thom_q0s4
Will add! Thank you.
I could add the German book „Franco befreit Spanien“, meaning „Franco liberates Spain“. It was written in Germany by Dagobert Mikusch in 1939. As it is in German only, it does not belong here, I suppose.
After reading it, I concluded that Franco was actually a pretty nice guy. He fended off communism and anarchism, which was pretty big in Spain at the time.
There is a law now in Spain that sanctions stating anything positive about Franco.
That is probably all you need to know.