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41) Recuérdame: el barco que salvó a casi medio millar de niños republicanos de la Guerra Civil Española
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"Quinientos niños suben a un barco desde Barcelona con destino a México buscando huir del regimen Franquista. Con la esperanza de una vida mejor y libertad, el viaje se ve amenazado varias veces, primero por el ejército que intenta capturarlos y luego por la odisea que les toca vivir de camino a libertad"--
"The latest book by Spanish bestselling author Mario Escobar, RECUERDAME takes a little known historical event--the escape of over 500 children...
Author
Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A fictional diary set in interwar Germany and Spain allows us to peek into the life of Klara Philipsborn, the only Communist in her merchant-class, German-Jewish family. Klara's first visit to Seville in 1925 opens her eyes and her spirit to an era in which Spain's major religions, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, shared deep cultural connections. At the same time, she is made aware of the harsh injustices that persist in Spanish society. By 1930,...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
This novel continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II. It picks up right where the first book left off, and continues up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life...
45) Sabotaje
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
"Mayo de 1937. La Guerra Civil sigue su sangriento curso en España, pero también lejos de los campos de batalla se combate entre las sombras. Una doble misión lleva a Lorenzo Falcó hasta París con el objetivo de intentar, de cualquier forma posible, que el Guernica que está pintando Pablo Picasso no llegue nunca a la Exposición Universal donde la República pretende conseguir apoyo internacional. Aunque ya se adivinan en Europa los vientos...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
"Toulouse, summer of 1939. Carmen de Pedro, head of the decimated Spanish Communists in France, meets Jesús Monzón, a lesser official of the party who, unknown to her, harbors an ambitious plan. Some years later, in 1944, Monzón, now her partner, has organized the most disciplined group of the Resistance against the German occupation, is preparing the platform for the Spanish National Union, and has an army of men ready to invade Spain. Among them...
Author
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Written by Galician surrealist artist and revolutionary E.F. Granell, The Novel of the Tupinamba Indian is a picaresque, Cervantes-influenced allegory of the Spanish Civil War. Set against a cruel landscape peopled by generals, priests, conquistadors, poets, witches, and nuns, Tupinamba Indian embodies Granell's wartime experiences while transforming them through his lush and incendiary surrealist imagination. -- from Amazon.
"Picaresque novel of...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, much loved writer: a deeply moving novel about an American woman's place during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she took from it, and how her story will shape her granddaughter's path. Marian cut herself off from her conservative, wealthy Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War--experiences she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter...
49) Falc�o
Author
Series
Aventura de Lorenzo Falc�o volume 1
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
octubre de 2016.
Language
Español
Description
La Europa turbulenta de los a�nos treinta y cuarenta del siglo XX es el escenario de las andanzas de Lorenzo Falc�o, ex contrabandista de armas, esp�ia sin escr�upulos, agente de los servicios de inteligencia. Durante el oto�no de 1936, mientras la frontera entre amigos y enemigos se reduce a una l�inea imprecisa y peligrosa, Falc�o recibe el encargo de infiltrarse en una dif�icil misi�on que podr�ia cambiar el curso de la historia...
50) Uncertain glory
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A classic Catalan work about love, family, and class during the Spanish Civil war. Spain, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís de Brocà i de Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. But the lady of Castel de Olivo--a beautiful widow with a shadowy past--puts a high price on her affections. In Barcelona, Trini Milmany struggles to raise Lluís's son on her own, letters from the front...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This spellbinding tale takes readers to a sinister, magical, and war-torn world filled with richly drawn characters like trickster fauns, murderous soldiers, child-eating monsters, courageous rebels, and a long-lost princess hoping to be reunited with her family.
Spanish Civil War. Ofelia and her pregnant mother, Carmen, have come to live with her mother's new husband in a forest north of Spain. Ofelia is afraid of her new stepfather, whom she has...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. 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. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An account of extraordinary artists and activists whose determination to live - and to create - with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War"--
"An extraordinary account of the women artists and activists whose determination to live--and to create--with courage and conviction took them as far as the Spanish Civil War" -- inside front jacket flap.
57) Winter in Madrid
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, reluctant British Secret Service spy Harry Brett investigates a shadowy Madrid businessman whose girlfriend would prevent a former lover from joining the communist cause.
Author
Series
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In elegant and accessible prose, Juliǹ Casanova tells the gripping story of the Spanish Civil War. These anguished and traumatic years filled Spain with hope, frustration and drama. Not only did it pit countryman against countryman, and neighbor against neighbor, but from 1936-39 this bitterly contended struggle sucked in competing and seemingly atavistic forces that were soon to rage across the face of Europe, and then the rest of the world: nationalism...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The events, participants, and consequences of the civil war are examined from historical as well as diplomatic, military, and political perspectives. A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated...
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