Thompson, Virgil
Thorez, Maurice
Time Inc.
Time magazine
Toledo
Tolstoi, Alexis
Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace
Tone, Franchot
Toronto Star
Tortosa
Toulouse
Townson, Nigel
Treball
Tresca, Carlo
Trijueque
Triolet, Elsa
Trotsky, Leon; in Copenhagen
Trotskyists
Tukaschevsky, Marshal Mikhail
Tunney, Gene
Tzara, Tristan
UGT (Unión General de Trabajadores)
Uhse, Bodo
Ulldecona
Unamuno, Miguel de, Telefónica
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, see Soviet Union
Unité (magazine)
United Press International
United Press syndicate
United States; Civil War in; Congress; Depression in; FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation; in Great War; International Brigade volunteers from (see also Abraham Lincoln Battalion); Martha Gellhorn’s public speeches in; Nationalists recognized as legitimate government by; Non-Intervention Agreement signed by; publication of Capa’s photos in; Senate; State Department; in World War II; see also specific cities and towns
USSR, see Soviet Union
Valdesaz
Valencia; Barea in; bombing of; bull fights in; Capa in; Communist Party congress in; flights to; front near, see Teruel; Gerda Taro in; Gerda Taro’s coffin in; Gorev in; government relocated to (see also names of officeholders and bureaucrats); Hemingway in; Ilsa Barea in; Lukács’s funeral in; Martha Gellhorn in; NKVD in; road between Madrid and; writers’ congress in
Valle-Inclán, Ramón del
Valsequillo
Van Dongen, Helene
Van Doren, Carl
Vanguardia, La
Van Urk, Jay
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo
Varela Iglesias, General José
Vatican
Vega, General Alonso
Verdun
Versailles Treaty
Veu de Catalunya, La
Vidor, King
Vienna
Vietnam, war in
Vinding, Andreas
Vinding, Ole
Vogel, Lucien
Vogue magazine
Voigt, Frederick
Volunteer for Liberty
Voroshilov, Marshal Kliment
Voz, La
Vu
Walter, “General,” see Swierczewski, Colonel Karol
Washington, D.C.
Watson, William Braasch
Waugh, Evelyn
Week, The
Weidenfeld, George
Weisz, Imre (Csiki)
Welles, Orson
Wells, H. G.
Welt Spiegel, Der
West, Nathanael
Wheeler, John (Jack)
Whelan, Richard
White, Walter Francis
Whitman, Walt
Wilder, Thornton
Wilkinson, Ellen
William Morrow and Company
Williams, William Carlos
Wilson, Earl
Wilson, Edmund
Winchell, Walter
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of
Wolff, Milton
Woolf, Virginia; “Three Guineas”
Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification, see POUM
World War I, see Great War
World War II; events leading to
Wyoming
Xanthé, Colonel
Yagoda, Genrikh
Yagüe, Juan
Yezhov, Nicolai
Young, Cynthia
Yugoslavia
Zagazagoitia, Julián
Zanuck, Darryl
Ziffren, Lester
Zinoviev, Grigori
Zuyderzee (film)
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Photographs by Robert Capa are copyright © International Center of Photography / Magnum Photos; photographs by Gerda Taro are copyright © International Center of Photography; photographs by Fred Stein are copyright © estate of Fred Stein, fredstein.com; and all are used courtesy of the International Center of Photography. Where no photographer’s name is given, the photographer is unknown.
Arturo Barea. Estate of Arturo and Ilsa Barea
Francisco Franco. Photofest
Men and women piled on top of a car, Madrid, August–September 1936. Photograph by Robert Capa
Three World War I veterans at a peace rally, Verdun, France, 1936. Photograph by Robert Capa
Gerda Taro winking, Paris, 1935–36. Photograph by Fred Stein
Gerda Taro and Robert Capa, Paris, 1936. Photograph by Fred Stein
Ilse Kulcsar. Estate of Arturo and Ilsa Barea
Pauline Hemingway in a sailor’s jersey. Ernest Hemingway Collection / John F. Kennedy Library
Ernest Hemingway fishing. Collection of the author
Martha Gellhorn. Photofest
John and Katy Dos Passos. Ernest Hemingway Collection / John F. Kennedy Library
Agricultural workers loading cart, Aragon front, Spain, August 1936. Photograph by Gerda Taro
Republican troop train departing for the front, Barcelona, August 1936. Photograph by Robert Capa
Training of the Popular Army, Valencia, Spain, May 1937. Photograph by Gerda Taro
Loyalist militiamen jumping over a gully, Córdoba front, Spain, September 1936. Photograph by Robert Capa
Remnants of apartment buildings after an air raid, Madrid, February 1937. Photograph by Robert Capa
International Brigaders firing through window, University City, Madrid, November–December 1936. Photograph by Robert Capa
Poster, “Madrid, the ‘Military’ Practice of the Rebels.” Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection, Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of California, San Diego
Gerda Taro taking pictures at Guadalajara, Spain, 1937. Courtesy International Center of Photography
Ambulances. Ernest Hemingway Collection / John F. Kennedy Library
Gerda Taro on a bed, Paris, 1935–36. Photograph by Robert Capa
Robert Capa at the Segovia front, Spain, late May/early June 1937. Photograph by Gerda Taro
Ted Allan, book jacket photo from This Time a Better Earth (1939). Photograph by Sam Shaw, copyright © Sam Shaw, Inc., licensed by the Shaw Family Archives, Ltd., www.shawfamilyarchives.com, collection of the author
Air-raid victims in the morgue, Valencia, May 1937. Photograph by Gerda Taro
Burning truck, Battle of Brunete, Spain, July 1937. Photograph by Gerda Taro
Republican soldier in a tree, Teruel, Aragon front, Spain, December 21–24, 1937. Photograph by Robert Capa
Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn in fox coat. Ernest Hemingway Collection / John F. Kennedy Library
Ernest Hemingway and Joris Ivens. Ernest Hemingway Collection / John F. Kennedy Library
Langston Hughes, Mikhail Koltsov, Ernest Hemingway, and Nicolás Guillén. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Father Lobo and Barea. Estate of Arturo and Ilsa Barea
Stalin and Ribbentrop. Photofest
Hemingway, Capa, Vincent Sheean, Herbert Matthews, and Hans Kahle at the Ebro, April 1937. Photograph by Henry Buckley, copyright © 2013 Patrick, Ramón and George Buckley, courtesy of the Arxiú Comarcal de l’Alt Penedès (ACAP), Fons Henry Buckley
Marineros bringing in the wounded, Rio Segre, Aragon front, near Fraga, Spain, November 7, 1938. Photograph by Robert Capa
Woman walking by a cart destroyed by fascist air bombs, along the road between Tarragona and Barcelona, January 15, 1939. Photograph by Robert Capa
Soldiers at the farewell ceremony for the International Brigades, Les Masies, Spain, October 25, 1938. Photograph by Robert Capa
Farewell parade for the International Brigades, B
arcelona, Spain, October 28, 1938. Photograph by Robert Capa
Young girl in a refugee transit center, Barcelona, Spain, January 1939. Photograph by Robert Capa
Red box of the “Mexican Suitcase,” the rediscovered negatives of the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and Chim (David Seymour). Courtesy International Center of Photography
ALSO BY AMANDA VAILL
Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy—A Lost Generation Love Story
Seamen Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design (coauthor)
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amanda Vaill is the author of the bestselling Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy—A Lost Generation Love Story, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography, and Somewhere: The Life of Jerome Robbins, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. In addition to writing the screenplay for the Emmy– and Peabody Award–winning public television documentary Jerome Robbins: Something to Dance About, she has also written features and criticism for a range of publications from Allure to The Washington Post Book World. She lives in New York City.
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Copyright © 2014 by Amanda Vaill
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First edition, 2014
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material:
Previously unpublished writing from the papers of Arturo and Ilsa Barea, including memoirs by Valentin Pollak, copyright © 2014 by the Estate of Arturo and Ilsa Barea; used by permission of Uli Rushby-Smith.
Previously unpublished writing by Robert Capa and Gerda Taro copyright © 2014 by the International Center of Photography, The Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive.
Previously unpublished writing by Martha Gellhorn from the Martha Gellhorn Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University, copyright © 2014 by the Estate of Martha Gellhorn; used by permission of Alexander Matthews.
Previously unpublished writing by Ernest Hemingway in the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Library, copyright © 2014 by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Hemingway Foreign Rights Trust; used by permission of the Foundation and of Scribner Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vaill, Amanda.
Hotel Florida: truth, love, and death in the Spanish Civil War / Amanda Vaill. — First Edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-374-17299-2 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-374-71203-7 (ebook)
1. Spain—History—Civil War, 1936–1939—Biography. 2. Hotel Florida (Madrid, Spain) 3. Couples—Spain—Biography. 4. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961. 5. Gellhorn, Martha, 1908–1998. 6. Capa, Robert, 1913–1954. 7. Taro, Gerta, 1911–1937. 8. Barea, Arturo, 1897–1957. 9. Kulcsar, Ilsa, 1902–1973. I. Title.
DP260.V35 2014
946.0810922—dc23 2013035338
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