A review by srbolton
The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War by Ernest Hemingway

4.0

Not especially enamored of the eponymous stage play, but the four short stories are excellent Hemingway, and entirely redeem the collection. The foreigners and Spaniards drawn to the Spanish Civil War live through the daily dramas and tribulations of life under uncertainty of tomorrow, but all return in their orbits to Chicote’s: bar, restaurant, and hub of social (and socialist) interaction in Madrid.