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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, And Death In The Spanish Civil War (2014)

by Amanda Vaill(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374172994 (ISBN13: 9780374172992)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: A true tale of the way the world saw the Spanish Civil War through the international press correspondents. Grand detail of the lives of photographer Capa (Hungarian), the Russian ambassador, the Spanish censor, the Communists, the Italian fascists, Americans Hemmingway. And Dos Posses...as they watched Madrid. & Barcelona fall to Franco in 1938..setting the stage for Hitler & Stalin & WW II. The individual stories kept you interested & amazed & wanting to know more.
review 2: There is so much material here for a good book and she completely blows it. Famous people, interesting people you've never heard of, war, sex, politics, booze, adventure, danger. Instead, you get more people than you can possibly remember who may or may not ever show up again, lots of g... moreossip and not a lot of action. A long digression about whether Robert Capa's most famous image (a Loyalist soldier being hit by a bullet as he jumps over a ditch) was a set-up could have been handled in a footnote. She slows the action down with such detail but doesn't know how to speed it up. The Epilogue is the best part. less

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