Status Updates From The Spanish Civil War

This work was first published in 1961. The Spanish edition was not published in Madrid because it was banned there by the censors in the Ministry of Information. So it was produced by Ruedo Ibérico, a Spanish émigré publishing house in Paris, and subsequently smuggled into Spain. Revised editions followed in English. The fully revised edition of 1976 was published in English and Spanish.

'Upon the heaped skulls of all these ideals, one dispassionate, duller, greyer man survived triumphant, as Octavius survived the civil wars in Rome. Caesar and Pompey, Brutus and Antony, Cato and Cicero – all, with their genius, lacked the minor talent of being able to survive. Francisco Franco was the Octavius of Spain.'

'A group of "old shirts" visited Rome and offered Don Juan, son of King Alfonso, the "constitutional throne of a Falangist State". The prince refused.'

Thomas's writing style is crazy sometimes. 'One series of incendiary bombs dropped in a cemetery and caused a fiery resurrection of the dead.' ? excuse me ?