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Spain's Civil War did not end in 1939. Guerillas determined to oust Franco's ruthless military dictatorship fought on in the mountains in a war that went virtually unreported.
In Andalusia a legendary chieftan named Roberto led the 'people of the sierra'. Caught in the middle, torn by family and political allegiances, were the countryfolk, unknowing victims of decisions taken in Moscow, Paris, London and Washington.
This book relates what happens when a village finds itself in the front line. Surviving guerillas, villagers, and Civil Guards tell their own stories of tragedy and betrayal, courage and stoicism.
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Frigiliana, Malaga, GranadaTimes
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Between Two Fires: Guerrilla war in the Spanish sierras
2008, Maroma Press
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in English
8461220536 9788461220533
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From time to time a stray hiker wandering about the ravines and crags of the Sierras Tejeda y Almijara nature park in southern Spain stumbles across splinters of human bone bleached by the sun. These forgotten fragments, and little else, exist as reminders of a pitiless war which many Spaniards were hardly aware of and which was ignored by the world beyonf the Pyrenees. More than half a century has passed since that conflict which destroyed and exiled whole families, most of the protagonists have passed on, and one by one the witnesses are disappearing.
By chance - its geographical position and the effects of particularly harsh repression - in the 1940's the village of Frigiliana in the Axarquia region of Málaga province found itself in the front line of that war to the death. From a community of just over 2000 inhabitants, 21 men fled to the mountains and joined a band led by Roberto, the nom de guerre of a legendary chief of the anti-Franco guerrilla movement.
Poor and isolated Frigiliana lived through an inferno, something hard to imagine when one looks at the village today.
By chance - its geographical position and the effects of particularly harsh repression - in the 1940's the village of Frigiliana in the Axarquia region of Málaga province found itself in the front line of that war to the death. From a community of just over 2000 inhabitants, 21 men fled to the mountains and joined a band led by Roberto, the nom de guerre of a legendary chief of the anti-Franco guerrilla movement.
Poor and isolated Frigiliana lived through an inferno, something hard to imagine when one looks at the village today.
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