The Tree of Gernika: a Field Study of Modern War was published
in 1938. It is G. L. Steer's masterpiece. Martha Gellhorn famously
wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt:
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""'You must read a book by a man names Steer: it is called The
Tree of Gernika. It is about the fight of the Basques - he's the
London Times man - and no better book has come out of the war and
he says well all the things I have tried to say to you the times I
saw you, after Spain. It is beautifully written and true, and few
books are like that, and fewer still deal with war. Pleas get
it.'
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""As Paul Preston says in his "We Saw Spain Die," 'Martha
Gellhorn's judgement has more than stood the test of time.'
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""In his introduction, Nick Rankin writes.' "The Tree of
Gernika" tells how Euzkadi, the democratic republic that the
Basques created in their green homeland by the Bay of Biscay,
fought for freedom and decency in an atrocious civil war. After a
year of struggle, blockaded by sea, bombed from the air, fighting
against overwhelming odds in their own hill, the Basques in the end
lost to Franco's forces - but they lost honourably, without
resorting to murder, torture and treachery.'
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""It was Steer who alerted the world to the destruction of
Gernika (Basque spelling), Guernica (Spanish spelling). It was the
most important dispatch of his life, run by both "The Times "and
"The New York Times."
Nick Rankin rightly describes "The Tree of Gernika" as 'a
masterpiece of narrative history and eyewitness reporting by
someone close to the key events . . .'
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