| Title | : | Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.74 (185 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 025202091X |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 395 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1994-08-01 |
| Genre | : |
"The best book about war sinceAll Quiet on the Western Front." - Howard Fast. "Gritty realism and an eye for political complexitythe muscular narrative provides valuable testimony of what it was like to fight Spain's rebel Nationalist troops, who enjoyed vastly superior weaponry and manpower supplied by Hitler and Mussolini, while the Western democracies passively looked on." - "Publishers Weekly". "It's very well done, brought it all back, the grandeur and the betrayal." - Arthur Miller. "Engrossing; Wolff has an eye for significant detail and a gift for dialogue." - Bernard Knox, "New York Times Book Review". "The best book so far about the American participation in Spain. And it might very well remain in permanent possession of that title." - Ring Lardner Jr. "I have never read more intimate, convincing, and devastating accounts of combatIt is a moving, revealing, personal contribution to the great large story of la causa, as the Spaniards of the Republic called their war." - Martha
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly Gritty realism and an eye for political complexity mark this interesting first novel by Wolff, who was the last commander of the Lincoln Brigade, comprised of American volunteers, mostly Communists, who fought Franco's fascist troops in the Spanish Civil War from 1937 to 1939. Mitch Castle, Wolff's alter ego, arrives in Spain a callow 21-year-old former errand boy from Brooklyn. On his way up from water carrier to machine gunner to commander, Mitch finds the war to be both a crucible forging his manhood and a testing ground for his political convictions. Counterpoint is provided by Leo Rogin, a reluctant, fear-stricken U.S. volunteer who deserts repeatedly, has an affair with a Spanish woman, impersonates her husband (believed dead or taken prisoner) and roams the war-torn countryside. Sprinkled with glimpses of such real-life figures as Ernest Hemingway, freedom-fighter Dolores Ibarruri Gomez ("La Pasionaria") and New Masses reporter Joe North, the muscular narr
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