Guernica! Guernica!
How the bombing of Guernica was reported, denied and turned into propaganda, and how the truth came out.
Herbert Southworth’s study of the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica in April 1937 and the propaganda battle that followed. Franco’s side claimed the town had been burned by retreating Basques rather than bombed by German aircraft. Southworth traces how that story was built, how journalists and diplomats handled it and how the myth was taken apart.
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Paul Preston
It is just an astonishing treasure trove about many aspects of the civil war. It is all seen through the prism of Guernica, but there is so much in it about the propaganda services of the nationalists, how lies are disseminated.
Interview · January 2012
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