Burnett Bolloten

Burnett Bolloten (Wales, United Kingdom, 1909 - Sunnyvale, California, 1987), historian of Spain.

Biography

Born in the UK, he covered the Spanish Civil War for the United Press agency. After the war he moved to Mexico and spent several years there with his first wife, Gladys Eve Green, putting together material about the war. This material is now held at the Hoover Institute of Stanford University.

In 1949 he immigrated to the United States and set himself up in Sunnyvale, California. For many years he worked as an historian and a real estate agent. He died of prostate cancer in November 1987.

Works

He wrote three books about the Spanish Civil War:
*"The Grand Camouflage. The Communist conspiracy in the Spanish Civil War", published in 1961
*"The Spanish Revolution", published in 1979
*"The Spanish Civil War: Revolution and Counterrevolution", a three volume work published in 1991.

Bolloten's work had a great influence on other North American Hispanists like Stanley G. Payne as well as on the historiography of the war in Spain, itself. His research on the revolution of 1936 has been followed by a good number of specialists in this period of Spanish history.

ee also

*Spanish civil war
*George Orwell