Gerald Brenan: 5 books

Gerald Brenan returned to Spain in 1949 for the first time since the Civil War. He was determined to see what had become of the country he loved, to speak to ordinary people and to experience life in small towns unvisited by foreigners. He had earlier lived in a remote village in the Sierra Nevada...

Gerald Brenan's The Spanish Labyrinth has become the classic account of the background to the Spanish Civil War. Written during and immediately after the Civil War, this book has all the vividness of the author's experience. It represents a struggle to see the issues in Spanish politics objectively,...

Written during the Spanish Civil War, published in 1943, revised in 1950 and republished in paperback in1960, The Spanish Labyrinth assesses the social and political background of the war, not the war itself. Brenan—a middle class, liberal, Anglo-Irish expatriate who lived in Spain from 1919 until...

Less than 100 years after they had hurled themselves out of the desert, Arabs were building in Spain a civilization that lasted almost 800 years and cast a bright ray of light into the Dark Ages of Europe. Here, in this essay by the acclaimed British historian Gerald Brenan, is the story of Moorish Spain.

Gerald Brenan analizó brillante y minuciosamente los antecedentes y problemas que determinaron la guerra civil española. El autor era un inglés enamorado de España, y en 1936 hacía cerca de veinte años que residía en nuestro país, en contacto cotidiano con sus gentes y dedicado al estudio...