Los mitos de la Guerra Civil

The myths of the Civil War has been perhaps the best-selling work of history in recent years. Also the most attacked and censored, but never refuted. That is why it has not aged, it retains its value intact. Expressions such as "Guernica", "Alcázar de Toledo", "Battle of Madrid", "Massacre of Badajoz", "International Brigades", "Moscow Gold", "Salvage del Museo del Prado" and others that have become symbols. The Civil War was understood on both sides as a fundamental clash between two conceptions of the world and of life, and hence its powerful myth-generating influence, surprisingly alive seventy-five years later, and not only in Spain. As Pío Moa quotes from the British historian Paul Johnson, our civil war has been one of the most lied about events of the 20th century. This book seeks precisely to clarify many of the myths created by passionate propaganda. For "without knowing the past it is useless to look to the future" or, in Cicero's words: "If you ignore what happened before you were born, you will never stop being a child."