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(More customer reviews)Authur Koestler, an English journalist, is in Spain when the troops of Francisco Franco begin their efforts to overthrow the Spanish Republic.
He lives in fear of torture and death and writes about how being locked up really feels. He survives to tell the tale.
One feels great sorrow for the country torn apart and for the brave men who fight
in this military exercise that is a trial and training ground for World War II.
The Germans and Italians test the weapons they will use against the Allies
on Spanish ground.
Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
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In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Málaga. He was then sentenced to execution and spent every day awaiting death—only to be released three months later under pressure from the British government. Out of this experience, Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, his most acclaimed work in the United States, about a man arrested and executed in a Communist prison.Dialogue with Death is Koestler's riveting account of the fall of Málaga to rebel forces, his surreal arrest, and his three months facing death from a prison cell. Despite the harrowing circumstances, Koestler manages to convey the stress of uncertainty, fear, and deprivation of human contact with the keen eye of a reporter.
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