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21) 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
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...
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during the Spanish Civil War. Now, her work has led her to France, where she's determined to provide expectant mothers and their unborn children a refuge amid one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Desperate to escape the invasion of Franco's Fascist troops, Isabel Due�nas becomes one of many Spanish patriots fleeing their country. She leaves behind her...
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...
26) 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
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Madrid, 1934. Soplan vientos de cambio en la España de la Segunda República cuando Bárbara, una joven alemana que ha conseguido huir de Berlín tras la victoria del partido nazi en las elecciones, abre una pequeña librería. Esta se convierte en un lugar donde soñar con un futuro libre y esperanzador, pero el estallido de la Guerra Civil amenaza con destruir todo lo que Bárbara ha construido. Será su amor por las letras y por un joven republicano...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espa?ol, una divisi?n de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
During the Spanish Civil War, a young doctor and his pianist companion go into exile in Chile, where they're received as heroes, but find themselves uprooted again after the coup d'?tat that overthrew Salvador Allende.
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In late 1936, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in Northern Spain, spurred to join the fight to preserve his country's democracy from the insurrectionists by the rousing words of a political essayist. Months earlier, Spanish generals launched a military coup to overthrow Spain's newly elected left-wing government. They assumed the population would welcome the coup, but throughout the country people like Isidro remained loyal...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally renowned author of The Impostor, a courageous journey into his own family history and that of a country collapsing from a fratricidal war--his most moving, most personal book, one he has spent his entire life preparing to write. Javier Cercas grew up hearing the legend of his adored great-uncle Manuel Mena, who died at nineteen in the bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War--while fighting for Franco's army. Who was this...
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