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Book Prison of Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tomasa Cuevas
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 1998-07-16
  • ISBN : 1438400144
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Prison of Women written by Tomasa Cuevas and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-07-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prison of Women presents oral testimonies of women incarcerated following the Spanish Civil War. The primary voice in the collection, Tomasa Cuevas, spent many years in prisons throughout Spain as a political prisoner. After the death of Franco in 1975, Cuevas began to collect oral testimonies from women she had known in prison as she traveled throughout Spain recording their stories. These, along with hers, eventually were published in three volumes in Spain. Prison of Women is a collaboration between Tomasa Cuevas and Mary E. Giles, translator and editor, who wrote the introduction and afterword, and provided contextual information in notes and a glossary. The testimonies offer a compelling record of the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War, the aftermath of that horrendous struggle, and a revealing testament to the strength of the human spirit.

Book Spaniards in the Holocaust

Download or read book Spaniards in the Holocaust written by David Wingeate Pike and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work focuses on the experience of the large Spanish contingent within the Mauthausen concentration camp, one of the least known but most terrible in Nazi Germany. An outstanding contribution to the literature of the Holocaust.

Book Prisoners of the Good Fight

Download or read book Prisoners of the Good Fight written by Carl Geiser and published by Lawrence Hill Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On every battlefield, there is a four-part litany of sorrows: killed in action, wounded in action, captured in action, and ambiguously, missing in action. For Generalissimo Franco's Christian crusade, one will want to add the category 'butchered in cold blood after surrender.' Those Americans and other international brigaders who survived the other battlefield calamities and ended in Franco's jails are the subject of Carl Geiser's history. He has searched the archives in a half dozen countries to tell this all-but-forgotten epic of American fortitude in the presence of appalling privation and humiliation ... For a time, Republican successes, as at Teruel and in the crossing of the Ebro River, kept their spirits high and their morale undamaged. And when the tide turned ... and the Republic lay shattered, they, behind prison walls, retained faith, not in their government, but in their people, in the wisdom and insight of that common folk from whom they had sprung. In this they were not mistaken. Carl, who shared in full measure all their suffering, has, in writing this book, restored a page torn out of American History"--Preface.

Book Spanish Prisoners of War  from Literature and Life

Download or read book Spanish Prisoners of War from Literature and Life written by William Dean Howells and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life) is an article by William Dean Howells. Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, here providing an article about his observations on prisoners of war from Cuba, in a US prison camp in New Hampshire.

Book War and Cultural Heritage

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  • Author : Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2015-03-30
  • ISBN : 110705933X
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book War and Cultural Heritage written by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between cultural heritage and conflict through the use of new empirical evidence and critical theory and by focusing on postconflict scenarios. It includes in-depth case studies and analytic reflections on the common threads and wider implications of the agency of cultural heritage in postconflict scenarios.

Book Spaniards in Mauthausen

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  • Author : Sara J. Brenneis
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2018-05-04
  • ISBN : 1487512961
  • Pages : 381 pages

Download or read book Spaniards in Mauthausen written by Sara J. Brenneis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides a historical, critical, and chronological analysis of a virtually unknown body of work. Diverse accounts from survivors of Mauthausen, chronicled in letters, artwork, photographs, memoirs, fiction, film, theatre, and new media, illustrate how Spaniards have become cognizant of the Spanish government’s relationship to the Nazis and its role in the victimization of Spanish nationals in Mauthausen. As political prisoners, their numbers and experiences differ significantly from the millions of Jews exterminated by Hitler, yet the Spaniards in Mauthausen were nevertheless objects of Nazi violence and witnesses to the Holocaust.

Book The Spanish Prisoners  Our Duties  Encouragements  and Prospects  A Letter to the Earl of Roden

Download or read book The Spanish Prisoners Our Duties Encouragements and Prospects A Letter to the Earl of Roden written by Sir afterwards EARDLEY SMITH (Culling Eardley) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Barcelona Incident

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  • Author : FERNANDO. ALEU
  • Publisher : Roca Editorial
  • Release : 2021-04-06
  • ISBN : 9788418417740
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book The Barcelona Incident written by FERNANDO. ALEU and published by Roca Editorial. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barcelona Incident is a novel of love and friendship during the Second World War. In the port of Barcelona, four thousand soldiers were exchanged on October 27, 1943. One of the prisoners is a 24-year-old German Jew who, if returned to Germany, ran the risk of being sent to a concentration camp.

Book The Spanish Prisoner

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  • Author : Freeman Tilden
  • Publisher : Doubleday, Doran & Gundy
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Spanish Prisoner written by Freeman Tilden and published by Doubleday, Doran & Gundy. This book was released on 1928 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Armada Prisoners

Download or read book Spanish Armada Prisoners written by Paula Martin and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the capture of one of the largest Spanish warships and the captivity of her crew.

Book Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War

Download or read book Women Political Prisoners after the Spanish Civil War written by Ruth Fisher and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Spanish Civil War the Nationalist government instigated mass repression against anyone suspected of loyalty to the defeated Republican side. Around 200,000 people were imprisoned for political crimes in the weeks and months following 1st April 1939, including thousands of women who were charged with offences ranging from directing the home front to supporting their loved ones engaged in combat. Many women wrote and published texts about their experiences, seeking to make their voices heard and to counteract the dehumanising master narrative of the right-wing victors that had criminalised their existence. The memoirs of Communist women, such as Tomasa Cuevas and Juana Doña, have heavily influenced our understanding of life in prison for women under franquismo, while texts by non-Communist women have largely been ignored. This monograph offers a comparative study of the life writing of female political prisoners in Spain, focusing on six texts in particular: the two volumes of Cárcel de mujeres by Tomasa Cuevas; Desde la noche y la niebla by Juana Doña; Réquiem por la libertad by Ángeles García-Madrid; Abajo las dictaduras by Josefa Garcia Segret; and Aquello sucedió así by Ángeles Malonda. All the texts share common themes, such as describing the hunger and repression that all political prisoners suffered. However, the ideologically-driven narratives of Communist women often foreground representations of resistance at the expense of exploring the emotional and intellectual struggle for survival that many women political prisoners faced in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. This study nuances our understanding of imprisoned women as individuals and as a collective, analysing how women political prisoners sought recognition and justice in the face of a vindictive dictatorship. It also explores the women's response to the spirit of convivencia during the transition to democracy, which once again threatened to silence them.

Book City of Inmates

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  • Author : Kelly Lytle Hernández
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2017-02-15
  • ISBN : 1469631199
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book City of Inmates written by Kelly Lytle Hernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.

Book Spanish Prisoners of War  from Literature and Life

Download or read book Spanish Prisoners of War from Literature and Life written by William Dean Howells and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish Prisoners of War (from Literature and Life) is an article by William Dean Howells. Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, here providing an article about his observations on prisoners of war from Cuba, in a US prison camp in New Hampshire.

Book Spanish Prisons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Griffiths
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2021-05-19
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book Spanish Prisons written by Arthur Griffiths and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, great Britain's prison administrator, Arthur Griffiths, claimed that Spain has been slow in the progress of prison reform. He separated fact from fiction, explaining in simple terms the country's nearly hesitant progress towards a modern penal system.

Book The Prisoner of Heaven

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  • Author : Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2012-07-10
  • ISBN : 0062206303
  • Pages : 749 pages

Download or read book The Prisoner of Heaven written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A deep and mysterious novel full of people that feel real. . . .An enthralling read and a must-have for your library. Zafón focuses on the emotion of the reader and doesn’t let go.” — Seattle Post-Intelligencer Internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge, set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them. Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past. His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco's dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love, and will ultimately transform their lives.

Book Spanish Prisons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur Griffiths
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2020-07-27
  • ISBN : 3752348399
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book Spanish Prisons written by Arthur Griffiths and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Spanish Prisons by Arthur Griffiths

Book The Spanish Prisoners Held by the Tagalogs

Download or read book The Spanish Prisoners Held by the Tagalogs written by Luis Moreno Jerez and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: