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'Aguirre [the Basque leader who reported the bombing] is lying. We have respected Guernica as we respect everything Spanish' - Francisco Franco The book begins with a graphic account of what happened in Guernica on 26 April 1937 and its place in the course of the Spanish Civil War. But Guernica also almost at once became a media focus, and Picasso's great painting, which made Guernica the most famous image of total war, was only one of a huge number of cultural artefacts - paintings, films, novels, poems, plays - to explore the great themes of the last hundred years. Ian Patterson brilliantly traces this hidden story of terror right down to 9/11 and Iraq - the image of Guernica is just as relevant today.
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Guernica and Total War, Ian Patterson
- Language
- Released
- 2007
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Guernica and Total War
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ian Patterson
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 1861977646
- ISBN13
- 9781861977649
- Series
- Profiles in History
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, History, Technology & Engineering, Military Fiction, Military, Europe, History of Europe, Spain
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
- Description
- 'Aguirre [the Basque leader who reported the bombing] is lying. We have respected Guernica as we respect everything Spanish' - Francisco Franco The book begins with a graphic account of what happened in Guernica on 26 April 1937 and its place in the course of the Spanish Civil War. But Guernica also almost at once became a media focus, and Picasso's great painting, which made Guernica the most famous image of total war, was only one of a huge number of cultural artefacts - paintings, films, novels, poems, plays - to explore the great themes of the last hundred years. Ian Patterson brilliantly traces this hidden story of terror right down to 9/11 and Iraq - the image of Guernica is just as relevant today.