To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDMany of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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