Read Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War Online
Authors: Amanda Vaill
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Spain & Portugal, #Biography & Autobiography, #Artists; Architects; Photographers
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Hotel Florida
is built on the personal records of its principal subjects—Arturo Barea, Robert Capa, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, Ilsa Kulcsar, and Gerda Taro—and without the help of the keepers of those records, this book could never have been written. My deepest thanks go to Uli Rushby-Smith for welcoming me into her home and giving me permission to examine and use the Arturo and Ilsa Barea papers; to Cynthia Young, the curator of the Robert Capa archives at the International Center of Photography, for opening that collection (and the papers and photographic records of Gerda Taro) to me and enduring my endless questions about it; to Alexander Matthews, the executor of the estate of Martha Gellhorn, and Sean Noel of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University for granting me access to the papers of Martha Gellhorn; and to Kirk Curnutt of the Hemingway Foundation and Society, Michael Katakis, Simon & Schuster, Inc. (especially Yessenia Santos), and Susan Wrynn of the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum for allowing me to use material from the papers of Ernest Hemingway. I’d also like to thank the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library for making available the papers of Herbert L. Matthews, which provided a navigational third point for charting the comings and goings of some of my subjects.
For making the task of consulting all these resources easier, I’m grateful to Eugene Ludlow of the Barea archive, Claartje van Dijk at ICP, Ryan Hendrickson at Boston University, and Stephen Plotkin, now a reference archivist at the John F. Kennedy Library. Archival research is dark and lonely work, and they all helped to keep the darkness at bay.
I would also like to thank Roslyn Pachoca, a reference librarian, and others at the Library of Congress for help in tracing Ilsa Barea’s
Telefónica
; the staff at the New York Public Library’s cataloging and reading rooms, who guided me to obscure foreign and periodical publications; and Mark Bartlett and his colleagues at the New York Society Library, who let me treat their collection as an extension of my home bookshelves.
I owe an enormous debt to the scholars, historians, and other writers who have worked with this material before me, and in some cases are working on it still. Many are acknowledged in my bibliography and source notes, but some of them have gone out of their way to help me individually, answering my questions, pointing out my blunders, lending me books or films, or pointing me in the direction of interesting sources. I’m particularly (and alphabetically) grateful to Richard Baxell, Antony Beevor, Patrick, Ramón, and George Buckley, Javier Cercas, Robert Coale, Mary Dearborn, Scott Donaldson, Michael Eaude, Soledad Fox, Joanna Godfry, Ray Hoff, Sheila Isenberg, Rickard Jorgensen, Stephen Koch, Anne Makepeace, José Martinez de Pison, Marion Meade, Caroline Moorehead, Paul Preston, Carl Rollyson, Irme Schaber, Patrick Seale, Peter Stansky, Nigel Townson, Alex Vernon, Alan Warren, William Braasch Watson, and Trisha Ziff; and, for help with German texts, Janice Kohn. I am also thankful for the support and probing questions from members of the New York University Biography Seminar, the first audience for early pages of this book. Without all these individuals, this book might have been written but would have been a lot less interesting, and accurate. Where it is
in
accurate, or uninteresting, the fault is mine.
There are no words to express my gratitude to my extraordinary agent, Eric Simonoff, who when I first showed him a proposal for
Hotel Florida
said the magic words “I want to sell it tomorrow.” Nor to the man he sold it
to
: the equally extraordinary Jonathan Galassi, whom I’ve long valued as a friend and colleague, and have now come to cherish as an editor and publisher. I also thank Jonathan’s wonderful team at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, including but not limited to Christopher Richards (a.k.a. Mission Control), Stephen Weil, Jennifer Carrow, Amber Hoover, Marion Duvert, Diana Frost, Jeff Seroy, Lenni Wolff, Jonathan Lippincott, Tal Goretsky, and my old Viking shipmate Lottchen Shivers; Alexandra Pringle and her colleagues at Bloomsbury, among them the ever-patient Bill Swainson and Madeleine Feeny; and my Spanish agent, Mònica Martín Berdagué, for her support and kindness.
Finally I’d like to acknowledge the friends who have graciously put up with my gossip about seventy-five-year-old events over lunches, dinners, and walks around the reservoir (you all know who you are); my loyal office assistants, Natasha and Tanaquil Stewart; and my family—Tom, Pamela, and Patrick—who teach me every day the importance of love and integrity.
INDEX
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ABC Press Service
Abraham Lincoln Battalion
Abyssinia
Ackerley, J. R.
Adams, J. Donald
Aga Khan
Agence Espagne
Alba, Duke of
Albacete
Albany Times-Union
Alberti, Rafael
Alcázar (Toledo)
Alcoy
Alfambra
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
Alianza de Escritores Antifascistas
Alicante
Allan, Ted
Allen, Jay
Alliance Photo agency
Almadén
Almería
Álvarez del Vayo, Julio
Alving, Barbro
American Friends for Spanish Democracy
Anarchists;
see also
CNT; FAI
Andalusia
André Marty Battalion
Anglo-American Press Club
Anti-Comintern Pact
Antirevolutionary Coalition
anti-Stalinists
Aragon
Aragon, Louis
Araquistáin, Luis
Arganda
Armstrong, Dick
Army of Africa
Art et décoration
(magazine)
Assange, Julian
Assault Guards
Associated Press
Asturias
Atholl, Duchess of (Katherine Stewart-Murray)
Auden, W. H.
Austria; German annexation of; political exiles from;
see also
Vienna
Aveline, Claude
Azaña, Manuel
Badajoz
Bahamas
Bahamonde, Antonio
Baker, Carlos
Baker, Josephine
Balzac, Honoré,
Comédie Humaine
Banco de España (Madrid)
Bank of America
Barcelona; Arturo and Ilsa Barea in; battles near (
see
Ebro, Battle of the); bombing of; Dos Passos in
nn
; fall of; government relocated from Valencia to; Hemingway in; International Brigade parade in; revolutionary spirit in
Barea, Arturo; background of; in Barcelona; death of; in England; escape from Spain of; first marriage of,
see
Barea, Aurelia; Madrid foreign press censorship post of; and outbreak of Civil War; in Paris; in Playa de San Juan; in United States; Unknown Voice of Madrid radio broadcasts by; in Valencia; works of:
The Broken Root
;
The Clash
;
The Forge
;
The Forging of a Rebel
;
Struggle for the Spanish Soul
;
Valor y miedo
;
The Track
Barea, Aurelia (first wife)
Barea, Ilsa Kulscar (second wife),
see
Kulscar, Ilsa
Barea, Miguel
Barker, George
Barnes, Margaret Ayer
Basque country; Nationalist offensive in; refugees from
Bauhaus architecture
BBC (British Broadcasting Company)
Beach, Sylvia
Bebb, Cecil
Beevor, Antony
Belchite, Battle of
Belgium; International Brigade volunteers from
Bell, Julian
Benes, Eduard
Benet, James
Benimamet
Bennett, Joan
Berengaria
(steamship)
Bergamín, José
Bergman, Ingrid
Beria, Lavrenti
Berlin
Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung
Berzin, General Jan
Besnyö, Eva
Bessie, Alvah
Bethune, Norman
Biarritz
Bilbao; Battle of
Bimini
Bishop, John Peale
BIZ
Black Arrows
Black Flames
Black Shirts
Black Star agency
Blair, Eric,
see
Orwell, George
Blitzstein, Marc;
The Cradle Will Rock
Blum, Léon
Boleslavskaya, “Bola”
Bolín, Luis
Bolsheviks
Borkenau, Franz
Bosshard, Walter
Bourke-White, Margaret
Bowers, Claude
Boyer, Charles
Brandt, Willy (Herbert Frahm)
Brassaï
Brecht, Bertholt
Brenan, Gerald
Breughel, Pieter,
Fall of Icarus
Brihuega
Brinton, Henry
Britain; Arturo and Ilsa Barea in; Communist Party of; evacuation of children in war zones to; in Great War; International Brigade volunteers from; MI5; nonintervention policy of; pacification policy toward Hitler of; in World War II;
see also
London
Brno
Brooks, Van Wyck
Browder, Earl
Bruce, Toby
Brunete; Battle of
Brunhoff, Cosette de
Brunner, Otto
Brussels
Buckley, Henry
Budapest
Budberg, Moura
Bukharin, Nikolai
Bullitt, William
Cachin, Marcel
Cadiz
Calvo Sotelo, José
Campbell, Alan
Canada
Canary Islands
Capa, Robert (Endre Erno [André] Friedmann); arrival in Spain of; in Barcelona; in Bilbao; in Cartagena; in China; at Córdoba front; death of;
Death in the Making
; “Falling Soldier” photograph by; family of; at Guadarrama; Gerda Taro photographed by; and Gerda Taro’s death; in Madrid; and Málaga refugees; “Mexican Suitcase” collection of photographs by; in Paris; at Segovia front; self-reinvention of; at Spanish refugee camps in France; at Teruel; in United States; in Valencia; Verdun battlefield visited by,; during World War II
Caporetto, Battle of
Carney, William P.
Cartagena
Cartier-Bresson, Henri
Casares Quiroga, Santiago
Castellón
Castillo, José de
Castro Delgado, Enrique
Catalonia; Generalitat of
Catholics; CEDA party supported by; reconquest of Spain by; Loyalist
CBS (Columbia Broadcasting Service)
CEDA (Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas)
Centelles, Agustí
Cerf, Ruth
Cerro Muriano
Ce Soir
Ceuta (Morocco)
CGT (Confédération Général des Travailleurs)
Chamberlain, Neville
Chamson, André
Chapaiev Battalion
Chardack, Willi
Charles Scribner’s Sons publishing company,
see
Scribner’s publishing company
Chevalier, Maurice
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang Kai-shek, Madame
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
China; Japanese invasion of
Chodorov, Jerome
Chou En-lai
Chrost, Antoni
Cimorra, Clemente
Civil Guard,
see
Guardia Civil
Clerical Workers’ Battalion
CNT (Confederación Nacional de Trabajo)
Cockburn, Claud
Colebaugh, Charles
Colette
Collier’s
magazine
Columbia (Mississippi)
Comintern
Communists; American; anti-Stalinist,
see
POUM; Austrian; British; Chinese; Dutch; French; German; Hungarian; Italian; Russian (
see also
Soviet Union); Spanish (
see also
Partido Comunista de España); Yugoslav
Companys, Luís
Condor Legion
Connelly, Marc
Connolly, Cyril
Contemporary Historians, Inc.
Contreras, Commandante Carlos (Vittorio Vidali)