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Guerra by Jason Webster (Paperback, 2007)

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Reveals the essence of modern Spain, which few outsiders ever manage to see. When Jason Webster and his wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep.

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Completing his edgy Spanish trilogy, Jason Webster unearths the secrets of the Spanish Civil War, and turns it into a personal quest for its dark legacy in today's Spain. After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep. Spurred to investigate the history of the Civil War, a topic many of his Spanish friends still seemed to treat as taboo, he began to uncover a darker side to the country. Witness to a brutal fist-fight sponsored by remnants of Franco's Falangists, arrested and threatened by the police in the former HQ of the Spanish Foreign Legion, sheltered by a beautiful transvestite, shunned by locals, haunted by ghosts and finally robbed of his identity, Webster encountered a legacy of cruelty and violence that seems to linger on seventy years after the bloody events of that war.As in Webster's previous books, Duende and Andalus, 'GUERRA! reveals the essence of modern Spain, which few outsiders ever manage to see. Fascinating true stories from the Civil War, vividly retold as he travels around the country. Yet the more Webster unveils of the passions that set one countryman against another, the more he is led to wonder- could the dark, primitive currents that ripped the country apartin the 1930s still be stirring under the sophisticated, worldly surface of today's Spain?

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PublisherTransworld LTD

ISBN-139780552772815

eBay Product ID (ePID)88966124

Product Key Features

Number of Pages304 Pages

Publication NameGuerra

LanguageEnglish

SubjectHistory

Publication Year2007

TypeTextbook

AuthorJason Webster

FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height198 mm

Item Weight210 g

Item Width127 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

Title_AuthorJason Webster

TopicTravel Writing

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by lexy12850
03 Jul, 2019
Spain post civil war.
Great author, interesting subject.
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by dalesman222
07 Dec, 2023
should be good but not read
looks good but not read yet
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