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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past

10 best books like Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past (Giles Tremlett): Homage to Catalonia, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation, Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía, The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain, The Spanish Civil War, Barcelona, The New Spaniards, Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago, The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Homage to Catalonia
AuthorGeorge Orwell
ISBN0156421178
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics...
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
AuthorLaurie Lee
ISBN0140033181
It was 1934 and a young man walked to London from the security of the Cotswolds to make his fortune.

He was to live by playing the violin and by labouring on a London building site. Then, knowing one Spanish phrase, he decided to see Spain. For a year he tramped through a country in which the signs...
The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
AuthorMark Kurlansky
ISBN0140298517
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye—the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people.

Straddling a small corner of Spain and France in a land that is marked on no maps except their own, the Basques are a puzzling contradiction—they are Europe's...
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
AuthorChris Stewart
ISBN0953522709
No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife, that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. That was the easy part.

Lush with olive, lemon, and almond groves,...
The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain
AuthorMaría Rosa Menocal
ISBN0316168718
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, María Menocal now brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years.The story begins as a young prince in exile—the last...
The Spanish Civil War
AuthorHugh Thomas
ISBN0141011610
Since its first publication, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War has become established as the definitive one-volume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today.

What was it that roused left-wing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against Franco...
Barcelona
AuthorRobert Hughes
ISBN0679743839
Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal...
The New Spaniards
AuthorJohn Hooper
ISBN0141016094
A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain.

The restoration of democracy in 1977 heralded a period of intense change that continues today. Spain has become a land of extraordinary paradoxes in which traditional attitudes and contemporary...
Travels with My Donkey: One Man and His Ass on a Pilgrimage to Santiago
AuthorTim Moore
ISBN0312320833
Having no knowledge of Spanish and even less about the care and feeding of donkeys, Tim Moore, Britain's indefatigable traveling Everyman, sets out on a pilgrimage to the cathedral at Santiago de Compostela with a donkey named Shinto as his companion. Armed only with a twelfth-century handbook to...
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
AuthorAntony Beevor
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall Of Berlin 1945

Beevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books 

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony...
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
AuthorPaul Preston
The remains of General Francisco Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of twenty thousand slave laborers. His enemies, however, met less-exalted fates. Besides those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands were officially executed between 1936 and 1945,...
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