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Guerra

Name: Guerra
Author: Jason Webster

Auteur: Jason Webster

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jason Webster

Engels
Paperback
9780552772815
02 juli 2007
304 pagina's

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When Jason Webster and his wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep. Yet the more Webster unveils of the passions that set one countryman against another, the more he is led to wonder.

After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his adopted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chance he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep.Spurred to investigate the history of the Civil War, a topic many of his Spanish friends still seemed to treat as taboo, he began to uncover a darker side to the country. Witness to a brutal fist-fight sponsored by remnants of Franco's Falangists, arrested and threatened by the police in the former HQ of the Spanish Foreign Legion, sheltered by a beautiful transvestite, shunned by locals, haunted by ghosts and finally robbed of his identity, Webster encountered a legacy of cruelty and violence that seems to linger on seventy years after the bloody events of that war.

As in Webster's previous books, Duende and Andalus, ¡Guerra! reveals the essence of modern Spain, which few outsiders ever manage to see. Fascinating true stories from the Civil War, vividly retold as he travels around the country. Yet the more Webster unveils of the passions that set one countryman against another, the more he is led to wonder: could the dark, primitive currents that ripped the country apartin the 1930s still be stirring under the sophisticated, worldly surface of today's Spain?

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 juli 2007
Aantal pagina's: 304
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Jason Webster
Hoofduitgeverij: Black Swan

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Editie: New ed
Product breedte: 127 mm
Product hoogte: 18 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 126 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 196 mm
Verpakking lengte: 20 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 200 g

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Taal: Engels
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Land: Spanje
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