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Standing for Spain.(The Last Crusade: Spain, 1936)(Book review)

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The Last Crusade: Spain, 1936, by Warren H. Carroll; Christendom Press/Freedom Publishing, 2004, $29.95.

WHEN THE HEROICS of the Spanish Civil War come up--Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, Hemingway's fictions, or the effusions of various poets--there is a very large and usually unremarked elephant in the room: Orwell, who actually fought, and Hemingway, who wrote about fighting, were on the wrong side.

The strategic point is simple: had the Stalinists won the war, then during the period of the Hitler-Stalin pact from 1939 to mid-1941, it is virtually certain that they would have allowed Hitler to cross Spain and seize Gibraltar. Communist parties round the ...

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