Author Archive for Katherine Stafford

Book Review: Marion Merriman’s Memoir Re-Issued

August 14, 2021
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<em>Book Review:</em> Marion Merriman’s Memoir Re-Issued

­American Commander in Spain: Robert Hale Merriman and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, by Marion Merriman and Warren Lerude. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2020.
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Book Review: Spain’s Martyred Cities: From the Battle of Madrid to Picasso’s Guernica

February 27, 2018
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Book Review: <i> Spain’s Martyred Cities: From the Battle of Madrid to Picasso’s Guernica</i>

Minchom, Martin. Spain's Martyred Cities: From the Battle of Madrid to Picasso's Guernica: Including the Reconstructed Text of Louis Delaprée's The Martyrdom of Madrid. Sussex Academic Press, 2016.
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Teaching History through Photography: Retracing Centelles’ Steps in Barcelona

August 19, 2017
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Teaching History through Photography: Retracing Centelles’ Steps in Barcelona

Photography is a powerful teaching tool. Last April, a group of American students and I met Ricard Martínez in front of a pharmacy on Barcelona’s Carrer de Diputació to follow the steps that Agustí Centelles, one of the most important photographers of the Spanish Civil War, had taken on July 19, 1936, the first...
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Book Review: Hotel Florida

December 17, 2014
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<i>Book Review:</i> Hotel Florida

Amanda Vaill. Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
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Book Review Spain’s violence: An English woman’s view

June 12, 2014
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<em>Book Review</em> Spain’s violence: An  English woman’s view

Málaga Burning: An American Woman's Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War By Gamel Woolsey. Introduction by Zalin Grant. 204 pages. $22. (Reston, VA: Pythia Press, 1998.)
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