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Aug 22, 2020 · Yet two years earlier, Secker and Warburg, the publishers of Homage, had brought out John Langdon-Davies’s Behind the Spanish Barricades: Reports from the Spanish Civil War and it had been a best-seller. Reportage Press Edition. Langdon-Davies’s text is now largely forgotten (though it was republished in 2007 by the Reportage Press).
Nov 29, 2007 · Behind the Spanish Barricades: Reports from the Spanish Civil War. John Langdon-Davies. 3.89. 18 ratings2 reviews. In 1936, John Langdon-Davies went to Spain to report on the May Day celebrations for the News Chronicle . By the time he returned in August, civil war was raging, and many of those he had seen celebrating lay dead.
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Behind the Spanish Barricades: Reports from the Spanish Civil War. In 1936, John Langdon-Davies went to Spain to report on the May Day celebrations for the "News Chronicle." By the time he...
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The following year he wrote Behind the Spanish Barricades, in which he recorded the exuberance of the short-lived proletarian revolution in Barcelona and also reported on the horrors of war as he visited Toledo during the siege of the Alcázar.
Behind the Spanish Barricades: Reports from the Spanish Civil War ... Behind the Spanish Barricades John Langdon-Davies Snippet view - 1936. Common terms and phrases.
John Langdon Davies' book about what he called "the greatest atrocity of all - Civil War" is written both in sorrow and anger. He was special correspondent to Spain for the News Chronicle and had fallen in love with the country and knew it well before the war broke out.
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From behind the frontline, he witnessed not just the atrocities of war but its very human face. Behind the Spanish Barricades is an impassioned plea for intervention, and Langdon-Davies'...
