The Spanish Cockpit Explained

The Spanish Cockpit
Author:	Franz Borkenau
Subject:	Non-fiction
Pub Date:	July 1937
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Pages:	303
Oclc:	3191955

The Spanish Cockpit is a personal account of the Spanish Civil War written by Franz Borkenau and published in late 1937. It was based on his two wartime visits to Spain in August 1936 and January 1937, visiting Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Valencia, and the Aragon and Andalusia fronts. The book brought Borkenau international fame. After writing a positive review of the book, describing the book as the best on the civil war, George Orwell became a personal friend of the author's and the two remained politically close.^[1]

Bibliography

• Book: Kessler . Mario . Fair-Schulz . Axel . Kessler . Mario . Between Communism and Anti-Communism: Franz Borkenau . German Scholars in Exile: New Studies in Intellectual History . 93–120 . 2011 . en . 978-0-7391-5048-1 . Lexington Books . https://books.google.com/books?id=h5hfYijlxL4C&pg=PA99 . mdy-all .

Further reading

• Atkinson . William C. . Rev. of The Spanish Cockpit . Bulletin of Spanish Studies . 14 . 56 . 211–213 . October 1937 . en . . mdy-all .
• News: Brien . Alan . Beyond Good and Evil . . 28 . 1986-08-01 . en . mdy-all .
• Carter . W. Horsfall . Review of Il Problema Coloniale Italiano alla Conferenza Della Pace; The Spanish Cockpit . . 17 . 3 . 452–453 . May 1938 . 10.2307/3019219 . 0020-5850 . 3019219 . .
• Web site: Clarke . Oscar . The Spanish Cockpit: An Introduction to Orwell's Spain . . 2019-07-27 . en-GB . 2020-06-21 . mdy-all .
• Empire and Defence . . 4271 . 102–104 . 1937-08-14 . en . 0950-9852 . . mdy-all .
• McEachran . F. . Rev. of The Spanish Cockpit . . 17 . 67 . 348 . January 1938 . en . . mdy-all .
• Orwell . George . George Orwell . Spanish Nightmare (Rev. of The Spanish Cockpit and Volunteer in Spain) . . 18 . 31 . 1047–1048 . 1937-07-31 . mdy-all . Reprinted in Book: Orwell . Sonia . Angus . Ian . George Orwell: An Age Like This 1920-1940: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters . 1 . 2000 . 978-1-56792-133-5 . 276–278 .
• News: Reviews of Books: The Spanish Cockpit . . 152 . 454 . 628–630 . November 1937 . en . 0010-7565 . . mdy-all .
• News: Spanish Civil War Booklist . . 100–101 . 1966-07-25 . en . mdy-all .
• News: Steer . G. L. . Rev. of The Spanish Cockpit; The War in Spain; Volunteer in Spain; Hotel in Spain; The Road to Madrid . . 159 . 5694 . 283–284 . 1937-08-13 . en . 0038-6952 . . mdy-all .

External links

• • Excerpt printed in The Essential Works of Anarchism (1972)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Smith . David N. . The Political George Orwell . . 2018-06-25 . en-US . 2020-06-21 . mdy-all .