Crónicas de la Guerra Civil

Chronicles of the Civil War, by Wenceslao Fernández Flórez, was written in the middle of the war, between 1937 and 1939, and has remained unpublished until now. The author began to write it after managing to escape from the persecution to which he was subjected in revolutionary Madrid for a long year; an anguished vital vicissitude that he collected in El terror rojo and An island in the red sea, also edited by Ediciones 98. The experiences and impressions of the writer are collected in this new work in a masterful way, together with the acute chronicle of the events that took place in those sad years of fratricidal confrontation. These chronicles review, among other issues, Russia's intervention in the war: the effects of communism and Russian propaganda, Russian military advice and support in the campaigns of the Republican side and the implementation of Soviet repressive methods through the czech The book is permeated by the deep feeling of disappointment at the human condition that led to the cruel confrontation, manifested through an intimate and insightful perception of what was happening.