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Based on a huge variety of diary material and personal letters from principally British and American, but also Russian and French sources, We Saw Spain Die is a study of how the war correspondent came of age in this devastating conflict. It highlights the difficult circumstances - political, professional and personal, faced by some of the century's greatest correspondents both within Spain and in America, Britain, France and Russia.

Paul Preston is regarded as the leading historian of twentieth-century Spain. He is Principe de Asturias Professor of Contemporary Spanish History and Director of the Canada Blanch Centre of Contemporary Spanish Studies at the London School of Economics.