Death’s Other Kingdom

Description

A heart-rending account of a Spanish village torn apart by the coming of the Civil War – A rare humanist and female voice on a war which has otherwise been colonised by political commentary and male voices. A balance to the cruelty of Orwell”s Homage to Catalonia – Woolsey, a poet, was married to Gerald Brenan, one of the Bloomsbury set who with the publication of South from Grenada became the English authority on Spain – New afterword by Michael Jacobs, author of The Factory of Light and the current authority on Andalucia.