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Selected Book Reviews from The Volunteer

José Peirats. La CNT en la revolución española. 3 volumes. Edited by Chris Ealham.  Hastings, East Sussex: Meltzer Press-Christie Books, London: Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies, 2001-2006. Reviewed by Andrew H. Lee in the June 2007 issue of The Volunteer.
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Paul Preston. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge. Third edition, revised and expanded. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. Reviewed by Sebastiaan Faber in the September 2007 issue of The Volunteer.
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C.J. Sanson. Winter in Madrid. New York: Viking, 2008.
Reviewed by Charles Oberndorf in the September 2008 issue of The Volunteer.
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Dominic Tierney. FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America. Duke University Press: Durham & London, 2007.
Reviewed by Soledad Fox in the March 2008 issue of The Volunteer.
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Noël Valis, editor. Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War. New York: Publications of the Modern Language Association, 2007. 
Reviewed by Lisa Vollendorf in the September 2007 issue of The Volunteer.
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George Watt Essay Winners

2008
Lynn Cartwright-Punnett (Wesleyan University). How Spain Sees its Past: The Monumentalization of the Spanish Civil War. Part I and Part II.

Sonia García-López(Universitat de València). Spain Is Us. La guerra civil española en el cine del Popular Front: 1936-1939

2007
Ashley Johnson (Mount Holyoke College). Healing the Wounds of Fascism: The American Medical Brigade and the Spanish Civil War

Julie Prieto (Stanford University). Partisanship in Balance: The New York Times Coverage of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

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