Spanish Fighters: An Oral History of Civil War and Exile

by Neil MacMaster

Based on extensive recorded interviews with two Spaniards who grew up in peasant villages of Asturias during the 1930s. Their account provides a "grassroots" insight into the poverty and social tensions that eventually led to civil war, the war itself, the experience of exile in French concentration camps after 1939, participation in the Resistance, the post-1945 opposition to the Franco regime, and eventual return to their home villages and a society transformed by decades of dictatorship. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1990