tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-03-02:2170751 elfbiter elfbiter 2019-06-21T21:15:19Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2014-03-02:2170751:13907 2019-06-21T21:15:19Z 2019-06-21T21:15:19Z public 0 <b><i>Nicholas Rankin</i></b> – Telegram from Guernica<br /><br />This is a biography of British (South African-born) de facto war correspondent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Steer">George Steer</a>. Over his career Steer witnessed fighting in Ethiopia, Spanish Basqueland and Finland. The title of the book refers to the fact that Steer reported how he found evidence that German incendiaries had destroyed Guernica – when Franco's side blamed the anarchists and British government claimed "there was no evidence". <br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://elfbiter.dreamwidth.org/13907.html#cutid1">Four wars in three countries</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=elfbiter&ditemid=13907" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments