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TOMORROW PERHAPS THE FUTURE - SARAH WATLING GEB...

From a prize-winning academic in our age of political divisions  this portrait of the women
outsiders who took part in Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance'A
fascinating study' OBSERVER 'Engrossing and impressive' NEW STATESMAN 'Exhilarating DAILY MAIL
In the 1930s  women and men from across Britain  Europe and America made their way to Spain to
be part of what they identified as a historic fight for freedom from fascism. Tomorrow Perhaps
the Future follows a handful of extraordinary outsiders who were determined to live out their
lives with courage and conviction. Sarah Watling weaves together the journeys of the young
American journalist Martha Gellhorn and the seasoned radical Josephine Herbst  the British
writers and partners Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland  the aristocratic rebel
Jessica Mitford and the maverick poet Nancy Cunard  drawing in their responses to the Spanish
Civil War in both literature and life. She considers the wary position of Virginia Woolf 
trying and failing to keep the conflict out of her family  and searches out the stories of
African American nurse Salaria Kea  Jewish photographer Gerda Taro and others  tracing their
decisions to face up to history. A year into the struggle  Nancy Cunard took an urgent poll of
contemporary writers asking the question straight: which side are you on? Tomorrow Perhaps the
Future explores how we respond to the need to declare a side  and how we know when that moment
- the moment to step forward - has arrived. Now  as certainly never before  we are determined
or compelled to take sides.NANCY CUNARD

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