A contemporary account of the revolution and civil war in Spain in the 1930s in which the proletariat, betrayed by its Stalinist' social democratic, and anarchist leaderships, went down to defeat under the blows of an armed fascist movement.

    An amusing and insightful account of Spanish village life from a brilliant interpreter of Spain to the rest of the world (The Times).

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    The French army expected to have little difficulty in taking this key Spanish city, but they encountered ferocious opposition from Spanish soldiers and civilians. They were embroiled in a murderous, long-drawn out operation that lasted for almost a year. Casualties were very heavy on both sides, as was the suffering of the citizens of Saragossa, and the city was ruined by weeks of hand-to-hand, room-to-room fighting. Raymond Rudorff's classic account, reissued in paperback, of one of the defining events in the Peninsular War gives a vivid insight into the siege and the street-fighting, and into the fierce determination of the Spanish to expel the French from their country.