The Salamanca Diaries: Father McCabe and the Spanish Civil War

The Salamanca Diaries: Father McCabe and the Spanish Civil War

In July 1936, an army-led coup against the democratically elected republican government ushered in the Spanish Civil War. Father Alexander J. McCabe was rector of the Irish College in Salamanca when General Francisco Franco seized power a few months later and established his GHQ in the medieval city. McCabe recorded the arrival of the nationalist war machine in his diaries, vividly documenting the horror of the repression and his encounters with Franco, Nazi officers and diplomats, British and American spies and journalists, and adventurers and charlatans from around the world who flocked to Salamanca. He also observed the implosion of General Eoin Oâ€™Duffyâ€™s ill-fated Irish Brigade, first as one of its chaplains and later mediating between the nationalist high command and Oâ€™Duffy. He unsuccessfully attempted to dissuade a disillusioned Oâ€™Duffy from returning to Ireland with the Irish Brigade in 1937. Historian Tim Fanning uses McCabeâ€™s diaries to provide a fascinating account of life in Spain before, during and after the war, as well as McCabeâ€™s memories of growing up in Ireland at a time of momentous change. This is the troubling and enthralling story of an eyewitness to one of the most tragic episodes in twentieth-century European history.
Country USA
Brand Merrion Press
Manufacturer Merrion Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 30 b&w photos
ReleaseDate 2019-11-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781785372773

Country	USA
Brand	Merrion Press
Manufacturer	Merrion Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	30 b&w photos
ReleaseDate	2019-11-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781785372773