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THE GRAND CAMOUFLAGE
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368 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1961
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Burnett Bolloten
7 books9 followersBurnett Bolloten (Wales, United Kingdom, 1909 – Sunnyvale, California, 1987) was a writer and scholar of the Spanish Civil War.
Son of a Liverpool jeweler, he was born in the UK. Not wishing to follow his father's career, he began to travel around the Mediterranean. While on vacation in Barcelona, he was witness to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that he covered as correspondent for the United Press agency. Initially a supporter, however not militant, of the Communist Party, he became disappointed with it during the course of the war, eventually coming to the conclusion that the Communists had betrayed the Republic. After the war he moved to Mexico and spent several years there with his first wife, Gladys Evie Green, interviewing refugees of the conflict and putting together material about the war. This material is now held at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
After separating from his wife, in 1949 he immigrated to the United States, settling in Sunnyvale, California. For many years he worked as an historian and a real estate broker. He died of prostate cancer in November 1987.
Son of a Liverpool jeweler, he was born in the UK. Not wishing to follow his father's career, he began to travel around the Mediterranean. While on vacation in Barcelona, he was witness to the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that he covered as correspondent for the United Press agency. Initially a supporter, however not militant, of the Communist Party, he became disappointed with it during the course of the war, eventually coming to the conclusion that the Communists had betrayed the Republic. After the war he moved to Mexico and spent several years there with his first wife, Gladys Evie Green, interviewing refugees of the conflict and putting together material about the war. This material is now held at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
After separating from his wife, in 1949 he immigrated to the United States, settling in Sunnyvale, California. For many years he worked as an historian and a real estate broker. He died of prostate cancer in November 1987.
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July 10, 2020
I recommend this book only to serious students of Spanish history of the 1930s. The Grand Camouflage is dense and heavily-footnoted, but I bought (and finished it a year later) on the strong recommendation of a lifelong Madrileno who said it was the best book ever written about Franco-era Spanish history.
All the players, all the names, all the research are right here.
All the players, all the names, all the research are right here.
March 12, 2024
A must read for those interested in the Spanish Civil War
March 9, 2025
"The Grand Camouflage" and the "The Grand Camouflage-The Spanish Civil War and Revolution" by Burnett Bolloten are the same book.
The author shows us the discontinuity between the Republic at peace and the Republic at war.It is falsely believed that the government that Franco and the Nationalist forces fought against is the same government which the other powers had recognized.Very well researched book.
The author shows us the discontinuity between the Republic at peace and the Republic at war.It is falsely believed that the government that Franco and the Nationalist forces fought against is the same government which the other powers had recognized.Very well researched book.
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