SPAIN'S FORGOTTEN WAR, PART TWO. THE INCALCULABLE DEBT THAT WE OWE TO SPAIN
One of life’s greatest satisfactions – and a rich source of deserved smugness – is to find others belatedly coming round to one’s point of view after decades of scepticism, ridicule or simple disbelief. Surprise! Surprise! Historians far better qualified than I, and with access to a mass of archives denied to me, are finally beginning to think “ Hey, maybe Hemingway wasn’t such a great historian after all. And perhaps this guy Ariel was right all along! ” Thank you, guys; about time! In the last... Sign in to see full entry.