How It Ended
Seventy-five years ago the Spanish Civil War ended, not with the decisive battle that some (including Ernest Hemingway) had been predicting, but with the unopposed entry of the rebellious Nationalists into Madrid.
We’re still feeling the aftershocks of that war, and I’ll be writing more about that in the weeks to come. But for now I thought I’d post a snippet from the epilogue to Hotel Florida which describes what happened in Spain, and in Europe, after the cessation of hostilities. It doesn’t make very comforting reading.
On March 27, 1939, Madrid – the city that Ernest Hemingway had proclaimed Francisco Franco “must” take if he were to win the civil war – surrendered without a fight to the Nationalist army. Three days later, on April 1, the Caudillo issued a final bulletin from his headquarters: “Today, with the Red Army captive and disarmed, our victorious troops have achieved their objectives.” On the same day the United States recognized the Nationalist rebels as the legitimate government of Spain….
To read more, go to http://amandavaill.com/Blog/Entries/2...
And please come hear me read and talk about Hotel Florida with renowned World War II suspense novelist Joseph Kanon at @Macaulay Author Series, Tuesday, April 8 at 7 pm. You can rsvp here: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/rs...
We’re still feeling the aftershocks of that war, and I’ll be writing more about that in the weeks to come. But for now I thought I’d post a snippet from the epilogue to Hotel Florida which describes what happened in Spain, and in Europe, after the cessation of hostilities. It doesn’t make very comforting reading.
On March 27, 1939, Madrid – the city that Ernest Hemingway had proclaimed Francisco Franco “must” take if he were to win the civil war – surrendered without a fight to the Nationalist army. Three days later, on April 1, the Caudillo issued a final bulletin from his headquarters: “Today, with the Red Army captive and disarmed, our victorious troops have achieved their objectives.” On the same day the United States recognized the Nationalist rebels as the legitimate government of Spain….
To read more, go to http://amandavaill.com/Blog/Entries/2...
And please come hear me read and talk about Hotel Florida with renowned World War II suspense novelist Joseph Kanon at @Macaulay Author Series, Tuesday, April 8 at 7 pm. You can rsvp here: http://macaulay.cuny.edu/community/rs...
No comments have been added yet.
