THE SPANISH LABYRINTH

Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to see the iss ues in Spanish politics objectively, whilst bearing witness to the deep involvement which is the only possible source of much of thi s richly detailed account. As a literary figure on the fringe of the Bloomsbury group, Gerald Brenan lends to this narrative an enga ging pers...[Read more]