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The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic, by Henry Buckley - review

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

10 August 2013

9:00 AM

The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic Henry Buckley

I.B. Tauris, pp.431, £20, ISBN: 9781780764290

With Spain’s economic crisis in the forefront of global news, it would be fascinating to see what a reporter of Henry Buckley’s stature would have made of its current predicament. He was the Daily Telegraph’s man in Madrid from 1929, who for a decade furiously filed dispatches from all corners of the country as its young democracy sparked, and eventually burst into civil war — finding time to swap stories with Hemingway over whiskies in between.

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Miles Johnson is Madrid correspondent at the Financial Times.

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