Jason Gurney - Crusade In Spain

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Crusade in Spain
by Jason Gurney
ISBN 13: 9780571103102
Faber and Faber, 1974
Hardcover , 189 pages , 1St Edition


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Most eyewitness accounts of the Spanish Civil War are no longer that widely read - probably only Laurie Lee's and George Orwell's nowadays. There might be a reason for this. George Orwell wrote in Inside the Whale (1940) that: " The immediately striking thing about the Spanish war books, at any rate those written in English, is their shocking dullness and badness. ...[They are] by cocksure partisans telling you what to think. "

This one is an exception and deserves not to be forgotten. Jason Gurney was a sculptor. He was born in England but brought up partly in South Africa; he had seen the impact of the Depression in both countries, was politically committed, and was appalled by the rise of Fascism. " Either you were opposed to the growth of Fascism and went out to fight against it, " he wrote later, " or you acquiesced in its crimes and were guilty of permitting its growth. "

Despite Gurney's commitment, Crusade in Spain isn't a " partisan book telling you what to think ". It was written years later and published several years after Gurney's death in the 1970s. It is one of the better books in English about the Spanish Civil War.
Gurney is a lively and perceptive writer. There are also no heroics; he pulls no punches, and far from toeing the party line, he is deeply critical of some of his comrades. (André Marty, the effective head of the International Brigades, is "ludicrous and sinister".)

The sheer grossness of war is here too. At the battle of Jarama in 1937:

" I found a group of wounded (British) men who had been carried to a non-existent field dressing station and then forgotten. There were about fifty stretchers, but many men had already died and most of the others would be dead by morning. ...One little Jewish kid of about eighteen lay on his back with his bowels exposed from his navel to his genitals ...they all called for water and I had none to give. I was filled with such horror at their suffering and my inability to help them that I felt I had suffered some permanent injury to my spirit. "

Not long afterwards Gurney suffered a more concrete wound; he was shot through the hand and never worked as a sculptor again.
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