Línea de fuego

During the night of July 24 to 25, 1938, the XI Mixed Brigade of the Army of the Republic crosses the river to establish a bridgehead at Castellets del Segre. In the vicinity of the town, a half battalion of infantry, a Moroccan tabor and a company of the Legion defend the area. The battle of the Ebro is about to begin, the crudest and bloodiest battle ever fought on Spanish soil. Masterfully combining fiction with historical data and personal testimonies, Arturo Pérez-Reverte places the reader, with overwhelming realism, among those who, voluntarily or by force, fought on the battle fronts of the Civil War. Their names are not those that history remembers, but what happened to them resonates in these pages with the drama of a memory that belongs to all of us. This is not a novel about the Civil War, but about the men and women who fought in it. The history of the parents and grandparents of many Spaniards today.