In hiding : the life of Manuel Cortes / Ronald Fraser.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : Pantheon Books, 1972Edition: First American editionDescription: xiv, 238 pages : map ; 22 cmISBN:- 0394479416
- 946.08/0924 B
- DP 257 .F73 1972
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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BOOKS | Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks | DP 257 .F73 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | Contains marker notes on the first page | NPML20060030 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-235).
1. In hiding: the first ten years 1939-49 -- 2. Manuel and Juliana: youth, pueblo and politics 1905-30 -- 3. Republic, revolution and civil war 1931-9 -- 4. In hiding: twenty more years 1949-69 -- 5. Release -- 6. Today: Manuel.
"In April 1969 Manuel Cortes, the last republican mayor of a small Spanish village before it fell to the Franco forces during the civil war, emerged after thirty years' hiding from the regime. Helped by his wife, Juliana, and daughter, Maria, he had hidden in the village since the end of the war. A few days before his release, the regime, celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of its victory in the war, had declared an amnesty for offences committed or alleged to have been committed during the war. For the first time in a generation, Manuel Cortes, barber by profession and lifelong socialist, felt free to come out of hiding. The following pages are his and his wife's and their daughter's account of those years. They speak for themselves, evoking the trials and hardships they have been through, the narrow escapes, the moments when everything seemed lost." -- from the introduction.
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