David Gilmour

‘Viva la muerte!’

Even after years of studying the Spanish Civil War, David Gilmour is far from inured to its atrocities

  • The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain

    Paul Preston

    Harper Press, pp. 700

The Spanish Holocaust is a book that will give readers nightmares: it gave me two in a single night. Even people who think they have read enough about the Spanish Civil War to feel inured to its horrors will still be appalled by the intensity of the cruelty and repression here revealed.

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