Meet best-selling historian Adam Hochschild!

We are so excited to host the incredible best-selling author Adam Hochschild at the store for his latest book, Spain in our Hearts, on Thursday, June 16th at 6:30 PM, at The Book Stall, 811 Elm Street in Winnetka.

Hochschild has written a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Spain in Our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best.

"In this beautifully written portrait of Americans caught up in the Spanish Civil War, Adam Hochschild brings to brilliant life the heroism and horror of that fratricidal conflict. His account of the David-and-Goliath fight between the ragtag army of idealistic, pro-democracy volunteers and the mechanized, murderous forces of Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini is one of the most powerful narratives I have ever read." --LYNNE OLSON, author of Citizens of London