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  • Journey through the Spanish Civil War

    The Hinterlands

    by S.L. Shneiderman ...
    Translated by Deborah A Green ...
    Selected as one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Indie History & Biography Books of 2024!In 1936, when civil war broke out in Spain between Republican and Nationalist forces, thousands of Jews streamed into the country to fight for the elected Republican government. One of these arrivals was S. L. Shneiderman—although he did not come to fight. Shneiderman (1906–1996) was a poet, translator, and literary ... Read more

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  • The Battle for Spain

    The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

    by Antony Beevor ...
    The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Real Odessa

    How Perón Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina

    by Uki Goñi ...
    The groundbreaking expose of an international conspiracy to protect Nazi war criminals—now with new material and an introduction by Phillip Sands.As Russian forces closed in on Berlin, and Hitler's premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goni unravels the complex international network that led them ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Loved Dogs

    A Novel

    by Leonardo Padura ...
    Translated by Anna Kushner ...
    "In this ambitious, at times gripping work of historical fiction, Padura re-creates the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico." ― Foreign AffairsIn The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader.The story revolves around Iván ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Spain In Our Hearts

    Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed.For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Spanish Civil War

    Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (Text Only)

    by Paul Preston ...
    A rousing and full-blooded account of the Spanish Civil War and the rise to prominence of General Franco.No modern conflict has inflamed the passions of both civilians and intellectuals as much as the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39. Burned into our collective historical consciousness, it not only prefigured the imminent Second World War but also ushered in a new and horrific form of warfare that ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Real Odessa

    How Nazi War Criminals Escaped Europe

    by Uki Goni ...
    It has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it was done, and reveals that the escapes were organized with the enthusiastic support of President Juan Peron. Even at this late date, when so much is known about the complicity of the Catholic Church ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition)

    Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge

    by Paul Preston ...
    The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative.Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship, ... Read more

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  • Stupid Wars

    A Citizen's Guide to Botched Putsches, Failed Coups, Inane Invasions & Ridiculous Revolutions

    by Ed Strosser, Michael Prince ...
    When winners write history, they sometimes "forget" to include their own embarrassing misjudgments. Fortunately, this take-no-prisoners edition of history isn't going to let the winners (or the losers) forget the mistakes of the past. Be prepared to laugh out loud—and gasp in horror—at the most painfully idiotic strategies, alliances, and decisions the world has ever known. These stupid wars have ... Read more

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  • Hotel Florida

    Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War

    by Amanda Vaill ...
    "[An] utterly compelling account . . . of the intrepid—and sometimes crazy—journalists who risked everything to report on the Spanish Civil War." —Amanda Foreman, New York Times–bestselling authorMadrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century" —six people meet and find their lives ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • A Bookseller in Madrid

    A Novel

    by Mario Escobar ...
    How can the words of the past help heal the horror of the present?For as long as she can remember, Barbara Spiel has always found solace in books. Born in Germany and having come of age in a tumultuous era, she flees her home country as the Nazis rise to power in the early 1930s. Her destination? Madrid. There she's determined to realize her long-held dream of opening a bookshop and creating a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Guerra

    by Jason Webster ...
    After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep.Spurred to investigate the history of the Civil War, a topic many of his Spanish ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD