Title
Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War
Document Type
Book
Annotation
Vaill provides a detailed account of the politics, propaganda, and horrors of the Spanish Civil War through the perspective of the intersecting lives and journalistic experiences of three larger-than-life couples: Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, and Arturo Barea and Ilsa Kulcsar. Draws on correspondence, diaries, biographies, official documents, and histories to meticulously reconstruct the era, covering Hemingway’s desire to jumpstart his stalled career, the dangers of his warfront reporting, and turbulent romance with Gellhorn. Includes a chronology, maps, and list of primary people. Extensive notes and helpful index.
Date
2014
COinS
Citation
Vaill, Amanda. Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.