Hotel Florida traces the tangled and disparate wartime destinies of these three couples against the backdrop of a critical moment in history: a moment that called forth both the best and the worst of those caught up in it.

And Arturo Barea, chief of the Spanish government's foreign press office, and Ilsa Kulcsar, his Austrian deputy, are struggling to balance truth-telling with loyalty to their sometimes compromised cause-a struggle that places both of them in peril.īeginning with the cloak-and-dagger plot that precipitated the first gunshots of the war and moving forward month by month to the end of the conflict. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe-a conflict one writer will call 'the decisive thing of the century'-six people meet and find their lives changed forever. A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War

Hotel Florida by Amanda Vaill