Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and The World It Made

a review by Ron Capshaw (May 2015)

Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and The World It Made
by Richard Rhodes
Simon & Schuster, 2015
320 pages

Which 20th century war involved the gang rape and castration of POWS? Massacres of villages from the air? Desecration of churches? Military revolts? Communist backing?

The immediate answer would be Vietnam. But the actual one is the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), whose “good war” connotations are second only to World War II’s.   more>>>