title: No Pasarn!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War
author: Pete Ayrton
description: Peter Ayrton rises above the political infighting and sectarianism and gives us a bottoms-up history as told by working-class Spaniards.<br /> - <strong><em>Minneapolis Star Tribune</em></strong><br /><br />The real strength of<em>No Man's Land</em>is the sheer diversity of the voices it offers, especially those from fronts often overlooked or considered peripheral.<br /> - <strong><em>The New York Times [praise for 'No Man's Land']</em></strong><br /><br />Ayrton has achieved something very rare and powerful in this book, a brilliantly edited collection of fiction. Essential reading for anyone interested in history, literature, or the human condition.<br /> - <strong><em>Library Journal (starred) [praise for 'No Man's Land']</em></strong><br /><br />The essential collection of writing from the First World War. Wonderfully wide-ranging.<br /> - <strong><em>The Times (London) [praise for 'No Man's Land']</em></strong><br /><br />As diverse in attitudes as it is in geography. A tribute to the art of translation. Marvelous.<br /> - <strong><em>Times Literary Supplement [praise for 'No Man's Land']</em></strong><br /><br />Trail-blazing. Not just another Great War anthology.<br /> - <strong><em>The Independent [praise for 'No Man's Land']</em></strong><br /><br />Superb. An impressive anthology that bears an extraordinary cargo of human experience, and is an enlightenment for those who think only of the western front when they remember the First World War.<br /> - <strong><em>The Financial Times [praise for 'No Man's Land']</em></strong>
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  > [Title Page](titlepage.xhtml)
  
  > Contents
  
  > [Copyright](index_split_001.html#filepos4926)
  
  > Dedication
  
  > Maps
  
  > [Author’s Note](index_split_004.html#filepos8513)
  
  > Prologue: Far from Home
  
  > PART I
  
  > Chasing Moneychangers from the Temple
  
  > Promised Land, Black Wings
  
  > “Those Who Do Not Think as We Do”
  
  > A New Heaven and Earth
  
  > “I Will Destroy Madrid”
  
  > PART II
  
  > “Don’t Try to Catch Me”
  
  > Rifles from the 1860s
  
  > Over the Mountains
  
  > Civil War at the Times
  
  > The Man Who Loved Dictators
  
  > Devil’s Bargain
  
  > PART III
  
  > “I Don’t Think I Would Write about That If I Were You”
  
  > Photos
  
  > “As Good a Method of Getting Married as Any Other”
  
  > Texaco Goes to War
  
  > “In My Book You’ll Be an American”
  
  > PART IV
  
  > “A Letter to My Novia”
  
  > “Only a Few Grains of Sand Left in the Hourglass”
  
  > At the River’s Edge
  
  > A Change of Heart?
  
  > Gambling for Time
  
  > PART V
  
  > The Taste of Tears
  
  > Kaddish
  
  > Acknowledgments
  
  > Notes
  
  > Bibliography
  
  > Photo Credits
  
  