Between June 1973 and May 1975, in the twilight of the Franco era, Ronald Fraser taped his conversations with more than three hundred survivors of Spain's civil war.
It was a privileged moment for capturing memories of a period distant enough to be history, yet near enough to be vividly remembered by participants on all sides: merchants and workers, landowners and laborers, communists, socialist, anarchists, monarchists, Falangists, soldiers, priests, and church-burners. Fraser's unrivaled mastery of the writing of oral history has given us a work which, like his earlier In Hiding, sustains a spellbinding momentum.
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