Cutting through much of the self-serving mythology and idealism that has sprung up around accounts of the Spanish Civil War, Ferran Planes offers a straightforward, clear-eyed description of events during that tumultuous time. As a lieutenant in the Republican Army, and later as a Catalan exile in France, Planes witnessed firsthand the effects of the war and the founding of the Second Republic on everyday citizens. His tragicomic and iconoclastic depiction of events often reads like a work of picaresque literature or an adventure novel as he weaves an unforgettable narrative of the war.
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