Blood of Spain
Reviewed by Christoph M. Kimmich
Fraser interviewed some 300 surviving participants of the Spanish Civil War and has fashioned their testimony into a highly readable history of "how people lived that war." What emerges from the testimony-the passions and bitterness of war, revolution and counterrevolution-is a version at once different from and complementary to existing political and military histories.

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