Novels about the Spanish Civil War

[Ol' Dirty]

I'm thinking of writing a story about the Spanish Civil War, but I would like to make sure that my ideas are original. It's about two people who fall in love during the Spanish Civil War, and there'll be a lot of corny stuff and campy references and the like. :cool:

There's an Italian -or whatever... I'm flexible on the nationality- guy who's in an IB, and a young woman from the Basque country. They do stuff, and that's the novel. It seems like a very simple idea, so I'm worried that something like that's been done before, and it probably has. I plan on adjusting the plot to be more new, but I need some examples of adventure novels about the Spanish Revolution/Civil War.:thumbup1:

[black magick hustla]

I think that is a bad idea, unless you write about something really original. there are plenty of people who have written novels about the SPCW who actually witnessed the event

[Random Precision]

Yes, it has been done before unfortunately, as no less than masterpiece of one of the greatest writers of the XXth century.

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Read it.

[Trystan]

I'm reading For Whom the Bell Tolls right now. Also try Orwell's Homage. That's a first hand account of front line life.