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War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War
War Is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War in Bloomington, MN
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The newly discovered journal of an award-winning poet's experience on the front lines as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—
All Quiet on the Western Front
for the Spanish Civil War
In 1937, James Neugass, a poet and novelist praised in the
New York Times
, joined 2,800 other passionate young Americans who traveled to Spain as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—an unlikely mix of artists, journalists, industrial workers, and intellectuals united in their desire to combat European fascism.
Although rumors persisted over the years that Neugass had written a memoir, the manuscript of
War Is Beautiful
, a nuanced and deeply poetic chronicle of his service as an ambulance driver, did not come to light for sixty years, until a bookseller discovered it among papers in a New England house once occupied by the radical critic and editor Max Eastman. The memoir combines fast-paced accounts of darting onto battlefields to pick up the wounded with elegiac renderings of days spent "on alert" in an ever-changing series of sharply observed Spanish towns, enduring that most difficult of wartime activities: waiting.
Published now for the first time,
is poised to take its place alongside works by Erich Maria Remarque, Irène Némirovsky, Wilfred Owen, and George Orwell as a transcendent contemporaneous rendering of wartime life. It includes some of Neugass's own photos taken while in Spain.
All Quiet on the Western Front
for the Spanish Civil War
In 1937, James Neugass, a poet and novelist praised in the
New York Times
, joined 2,800 other passionate young Americans who traveled to Spain as part of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade—an unlikely mix of artists, journalists, industrial workers, and intellectuals united in their desire to combat European fascism.
Although rumors persisted over the years that Neugass had written a memoir, the manuscript of
War Is Beautiful
, a nuanced and deeply poetic chronicle of his service as an ambulance driver, did not come to light for sixty years, until a bookseller discovered it among papers in a New England house once occupied by the radical critic and editor Max Eastman. The memoir combines fast-paced accounts of darting onto battlefields to pick up the wounded with elegiac renderings of days spent "on alert" in an ever-changing series of sharply observed Spanish towns, enduring that most difficult of wartime activities: waiting.
Published now for the first time,
is poised to take its place alongside works by Erich Maria Remarque, Irène Némirovsky, Wilfred Owen, and George Orwell as a transcendent contemporaneous rendering of wartime life. It includes some of Neugass's own photos taken while in Spain.
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