Hell and Good Company

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb , “The most extraordinary book about the Spanish Civil War ever encountered” ( The Washington Post ). The Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) inspired and haunted an extraordinary number of exceptional artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Martha Gellhorn, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, and John Dos Passos. The idealism of the cause—defending democracy from fascism at a time when Europe was dar