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Cutting through much of the self-serving mythology and idealism that has sprung up around accounts of the Spanish Civil War, Ferran Planes offers a straightforward, clear-eyed description of events during that tumultuous time. As a lieutenant in the Republican Army, and later as a Catalan exile in France, Planes witnessed firsthand the effects of the war and the founding of the Second Republic on everyday citizens. His tragicomic and iconoclastic depiction of events often reads like a work of picaresque literature or an adventure novel as he weaves an unforgettable narrative of the war.

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An impressive narrative voice; one of the best accounts of the Republic, the war, and the exile, which in certain passages has the force of a great novel about shattered illusions. La Vanguardia

An impressive narrative voice; one of the best accounts of the Republic, the war, and the exile, which in certain passages has the force of a great novel about shattered illusions. -- La Vanguardia

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Ferran Planes was a member of the Republican press and a lieutenant in the Spanish Republican Armed Forces during the Spanish Civil War. He was forced to flee Spain in 1939 and spent time in the Saint-Cyprien internment camp in France, during which he worked on the construction of the Maginot Line, and later in a German labor camp in Alsace. He returned to Spain in the mid-1940s. Carlos Manzano is a translator best known for his translation of Marcel Proust s In Search of Lost Time to Spanish.

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