Ernest Hemingway

From a Preface (1940) by Ernest Hemingway

The Spanish civil war was really lost, of course, when the Fascists took Irun in the later summer of 1936. But in a war you can never admit, even to yourself, that it is lost. Because when you will admit it is lost you are beaten. The one who being beaten refuses to admit it and fights on the longest wins in all finish fights ; (etc).

 

( Camaguay, Cuba: 1940 )

The Great Crusade by Gustav Regler
Translated by Whittaker Chambers and Barrows Mussey
New York ^. Toronto : Longmans, Green 1940, pp. vii and xi.