El tango de Dien Bien Phu

From the release of libertarian columns across the border in 1939 to the French defeat in Vietnam in 1954, Dien Bien Phu's Tango is a choral novel that explores in the biographies of anonymous characters all the accents of non-fighters. they were afraid of defeat. Through Dani Cajal's research, the story reconstructs, through direct testimonies, memo books and military archive documents, the entire journey of a generation that suffered during the Civil War, the French concentration camps, the Second World War I, and in many cases the continuation of the post-war conflicts. The Gardel's anthem, the excerpt for searching for the lyrics of a tango, serves the narrator to revisit scenes and almost forgotten moments in some of the bloodiest episodes of the 20th century. have many of our ancestors as protagonists. Without any will to revenge, the novel undoes the heroic interpretations and, without judging, offers a portrayal of the combatants without aspiration for glory.