Roy Campbell and his family were living in Toledo in 1936 when the Spanish Civil War broke out. Soon the city was under siege. Roy, his wife Mary and their two children, Tess and Anna, were obliged to flee, the only way out being in the back of a truck marked with a skull and bones warning which indicated that it normally collected corpses. Once clear of the city their travails were not at an end. They had a particularly frightening encounter with a woman milicien close to Madrid. Then they had to be smuggled through enemy lines to the port of Valencia by the famous Spanish Pimpernel, Captain Christopher Lance. Roy Campbell's poems on Spain, and some others, are here beautifully presented, both in their original English and with Spanish translations. The Preface is by the American private press printer who became one of Roy's publishers, following an interesting series of events.
This is not a travel book, says the author. Instead it is about some of the things he loves about Portugal: the wines, Fado, horses and horsemen, the Roman-Celtic history, and Portuguese literature.
This is the very dramatic story of the siege laid by Republican forces on Toledo, from July to September 1936, until Franco's Nationalist army ended it. The Alcazar was the the fortress inside the city where 1800 people, including women and children, barricaded themselves. Conditions for them all became dreadful.
This is the story of Captain Christopher Lance, D.S.O., who found himself in Madrid at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Many of his friends were in perilous danger, so he began to help them. He assumed the role of a buffoonish character and used that to fool the officials, police, and sentries who normally would have barred him, and the escapees he had in tow, from passing through. In this way he was able to take many refugees to safety, usually to a ship leaving the country. Among the more famous people he helped were Roy Campbell and his family.
Worsley went to Spain and served as an ambulance driver during the Civil War. This novel is based on his experiences. It follows the progress of five young Englishmen who volunteer to aid the Republican cause.
A compelling film about life in a notorious prison in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where during a riot in 1992 111 of the inmates were brutally murdered by an assaulting police squad. The central figure in the drama is a doctor who treats the many ailments of the prisoners and in the process learns some of their stories.
A remarkable film about two boys from the slums of Rio who take very different paths, although their lives are intertwined and the connection ends only with the death of one of them.
A number of people, all strangers to each other, arrange to meet at the same time in a central square in Madrid for what they hope will be amorous encounters. However each ends up being paired with the wrong person, with interesting results.