General Escobar's War
By: José Louis Olaizola ; translated by Richard Goodyear
Contributors: Goodyear, Richard, translator
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: La guerra del general Escobar
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781621640523
Subjects: Fiction; History
Work titles: Guerra del general Escobar
Description: Appearing here in English translation for the first time, General Escobar's War won Spain's prestigious Planeta Prize for fiction. The historical novel takes the form of an imagined diary by General Antonio Escobar, the highest-ranking officer of the Republican Army remaining in Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War, while he awaited trial and execution. Besides being a vivid reminder of how destructive political passions can be, General Escobar's War is also a profoundly intimate portrait of an inspiring man. By his decisive action on July 19, 1936, Escobar, then a Civil Guard colonel and a man of profound religious conviction, succeeded in thwarting the military uprising in Barcelona. Although his father was a hero of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, his daughter was a nun, and one of his sons was a Falangist fighter, Escobar freely chose to defend the Republic in accordance with his oath to support the legally constituted government.
Notes: "A novel of the Spanish Civil War" --Cover.

Translation from the Spanish of: La guerra del general Escobar.

Includes bibliographical references (page 235).

Translated from the Spanish.