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El coronel de la Guardia Civil Antonio Escobar, hombre de profundas convicciones religiosas, consiguió con su decidida actuación el 19 de julio de 1936 que no prosperase la sublevación militar en Barcelona. Pese a ser hijo de un héroe de la guerra de Cuba, y tener una hija monja adoratriz, un hijo falangista Palma de Plata y dos hermanos también coroneles de la Guardia Civil, optó por la libertad de actuar conforme a su conciencia y al juramento prestado al Gobierno legalmente constituido. A través de esta obra, el autor nos da una visión infrecuente de los años de nuestra guerra, vividos sin partidismo ni ideologías por un militar que en la España del gran desgarrón histórico eligió, ante el estupor mal disimulado de las autoridades, una incómoda postura, porque creía que su puesto era aquél. Pese a la historicidad del relato, nos encontramos ante una novela en la que su autor se ha limitado a recrear un personaje admirable que pudo vivir, luchar y morir en cualquier otra guerra fraticida de la Historia.
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La guerra del general Escobar
1997, Círculo de Lectores, S.A.
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1993, Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
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HISTORICAL FICTION. 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.
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