General Escobar's war /
Appearing here in English translation for the first time, General Escobar's War won Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize for fiction. The historical novel takes the form of an imagined diary by General Antonio Escobar, the highest-ranking officer of the Republican Army remaining in Spain at t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Spanish. Original Spanish edition: La guerra del general Escobar. |
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San Francisco :
Ignatius Press,
[2016]
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| Summary: | Appearing here in English translation for the first time, General Escobar's War won Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize for fiction. The historical novel takes the form of an imagined diary by General Antonio Escobar, the highest-ranking officer of the Republican Army remaining in Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War, while he awaited trial and execution. Besides being a vivid reminder of how destructive political passions can be, General Escobar's War is also a profoundly intimate portrait of an inspiring man. By his decisive action on July 19, 1936, Escobar, then a Civil Guard colonel and a man of profound religious conviction, succeeded in thwarting the military uprising in Barcelona. Although his father was a hero of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, his daughter was a nun, and one of his sons was a Falangist fighter, Escobar freely chose to defend the Republic in accordance with his oath to support the legally constituted government. |
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| Item Description: | "A novel of the Spanish Civil War"--Cover. |
| Physical Description: | 235 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781621640523 1621640523 |