Doves of war four women of Spain

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Love, war, duty, faith, betrayal and belief a revolutionary new view of the Spanish Civil War through the eyes and experiences of the women who endured it, by the greatest historian of Spain: Passionate and deeply moving when Preston writes about these women, you feel as if you are in their company. Scotland on Sunday Four extraordinary women whose personal histories should dispel any illusions that the Spanish Civil War was an all-male warWritten with a shrewd eye and a sure touch, the book is full of wonderful stories and acute observations. Above all, these are compellingly human dramas in which moral issues, right and wrong, Fascism and Communism, melt away. Sunday Telegraph The Aristocrat: PIP SCOTT-ELLIS fell in love with a Spanish prince and set off for Madrid in a chauffeur-driven limousine. She ended up nursing in front-line Francoist hospitals. The Communist: NAN GREEN, by contrast, travelled to war third class. Leaving her children behind in England, she went to...