Hotel Florida Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2014. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374172994 . Dust jacket has short closed tear to back , light wear top of spine, book is as new ; A near-fine volume in a VG DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W photos ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 436 pages; "Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe-a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"- six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea, chief of the Spanish government's foreign press office, and Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with loyalty to their sometimes compromised cause-a struggle that places both of them in peril. Beginning with the cloak-and-dagger plot that precipitated the first gunshots of the war and moving forward month by month to the end of the conflict. Hotel Florida traces the tangled and disparate wartime destinies of these three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history: a moment that called forth both the best and the worst of those caught up in it. " .