Death in Malaga: An American Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War [Paperback]

Edward Norton (Author), William Whitaker Harmon (Foreword)

Product Details

• Paperback: 313 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse.com (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970042205
• ISBN-13: 978-0970042200
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,314,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read for Students of 2oth Century European History, March 9, 2004

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This review is from: Death in Malaga: An American Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War (Paperback)

Edward Norton was an American diplomat who retired to Malaga, Spain in the 1930s. One of the very few Westerners to stay and observe the entire seven months' rule by the Spanish Anarchists and Communists, his diaries document the disastrous results of government by mob.
After Norton's death, his great nephew, William Harmon, inherited the diaries, and has used them and other family documents to tell the story of the starvation, arson, mass executions and destruction which ended only when General Franco's forces reached the city to re-establish order.
I think this is an excellent account of an eye witness to the Spanish Civil War.
In my own youth, American news reports pictured Franco as the villain. He was indeed a dictator, but he appears to have saved Malaga from the final total destruction of the city and from the execution of its remaining citizens planned by the anarchists.