Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y LeΓ³n is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern
Death of a Nationalist
β Scribed by Pawel, Rebecca
- Book ID
- 107633707
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Series
- Tejada 1
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781569473443
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β¦ Synopsis
Praise for Rebecca Pawel:
"Pawel anchors a tense and exciting story with a terrific and complex plot."--Detroit Free Press
"[Pawel] turns the clock back to 1939 and Madrid's tumultuous past. . . . An intriguing juxtaposition of the political and the personal."--Kirkus Reviews
"An intriguing tale amid the gloom of war-torn Madrid. It is a humane and moving portrait of a divided people coming to grips with the virtues of enemies and the villainy of friends."--Dan Fesperman
Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y LeΓ³n is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist.
This war has drawn...
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