We Saw Spain Die (87 page)

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Henry Buckley (left, with Louis Fischer in Barcelona in 1938) had arrived in Spain in 1929 and was considered one of the two most knowledgeable of the newspapermen.

Jay Allen (right) was the other one of the two best-informed correspondents. He had been coming to Spain since 1924 and had lived there since 1930.

Lester Ziffren (centre), head of the United Press Bureau in Madrid since 1933, with the actor Douglas Fairbanks (left) and his friend, the bullfighter Juan Belmonte.

The intrepid swashbuckler Sefton Delmer in Madrid.

The young New Zealander Geoffrey Cox became the chronicler of the heroic defence of Madrid.

Louis Delaprée (‘I number the ruins, I count the dead’), killed in December 1936, had recorded the horrors of the bombing of Madrid.

Arthur Koestler after his arrest in Málaga in February 1937.

Mikhail Koltsov of Pravda (right) with the legendary anarchist leader, Buenaventura Durruti, on the Aragón front at Bujaraloz, August 1936.

Ernest Hemingway chats with the Communist General Enrique Líster (second left) and International Brigade Commander Hans Kahle (first left) during the Battle of the Ebro, while Vincent Sheean looks away.

Koltsov (right) with the legendary Russian cameraman Roman Karmen at the front outside Madrid in October 1936.

Koltsov with his lover, the German journalist Maria Osten, who would be shot in Moscow in 1942.

Herbert Matthews and Hemingway in ‘the Old Homestead’ (a house on the Paseo de Rosales overlooking the Madrid front).