The Spanish Cockpit is a personal account of the Spanish Civil War written by Franz Borkenau and published in late 1937. It was based on his two wartime visits to Spain in August 1936 and January 1937, visiting Barcelona, Madrid, Toledo, Valencia, and the Aragon and Andalusia fronts. The book brought Borkenau international fame. After writing a positive review of the book, describing the book as the best on the civil war, George Orwell became a personal friend of the author's and the two remained politically close.

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Bibliography

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Further reading

  • Atkinson, William C. (October 1937). "Rev. of The Spanish Cockpit". Bulletin of Spanish Studies. 14 (56): 211–213. ProQuest .
  • Brien, Alan (August 1, 1986). "Beyond Good and Evil". New Statesman. p. 28.
  • Carter, W. Horsfall (May 1938). "Review of Il Problema Coloniale Italiano alla Conferenza Della Pace; The Spanish Cockpit". International Affairs. 17 (3): 452–453. doi:. ISSN . JSTOR . ProQuest .
  • Clarke, Oscar (July 27, 2019). . The Orwell Society.
  • "Empire and Defence". Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (4271): 102–104. August 14, 1937. ISSN . ProQuest .
  • McEachran, F. (January 1938). "Rev. of The Spanish Cockpit". The Criterion. 17 (67): 348. ProQuest .
  • Orwell, George (July 31, 1937). "Spanish Nightmare (Rev. of The Spanish Cockpit and Volunteer in Spain)". Time and Tide. 18 (31): 1047–1048. Reprinted in Orwell, Sonia; Angus, Ian, eds. (2000). George Orwell: An Age Like This 1920-1940: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters. Vol. 1. David R. Godine Publisher. pp. 276–278. ISBN 978-1-56792-133-5.
  • "Reviews of Books: The Spanish Cockpit". The Contemporary Review Literary Supplement. Vol. 152, no. 454. November 1937. pp. 628–630. ISSN . ProQuest .
  • "Spanish Civil War Booklist". The Nation. July 25, 1966. pp. 100–101.
  • Steer, G. L. (August 13, 1937). "Rev. of The Spanish Cockpit; The War in Spain; Volunteer in Spain; Hotel in Spain; The Road to Madrid". The Spectator. Vol. 159, no. 5694. pp. 283–284. ISSN . ProQuest .

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