Books

  Forgotten Flags The Spanish Army in the Emancipation Wars On this occasion, the publishing house Desperta Ferro has republished a book that is already a classic: Forgotten Flags. The Spanish Army in the American Emancipation Wars, one of the few studies dedicated to the armies that fought for the Spanish Monarchy during the emancipation processes in Spanish America at the beginning of the 19th century. Cursed armies, like almost all defeated ones. Spain, as is common in its history (although not only, as we have seen regarding the British in Musa Qala) preferred to lose the memory of its failures, forgetting at the same time its sacrifices and its triumphs. However, Americans and Peninsulars fought together with admirable perseverance for what they believed was a just cause. In this work of absolute reference, out of print for years, Julio Albi de la Cuesta, author [Keep reading…]

  What they have never told you about D-Day Pere Cardona and Manuel P. Villatoro   “What they have never told you about D-Day”, written by Pere Cardona and Manuel P. Villatoro is, as its title indicates, a complete book of anecdotes and curiosities about the Normandy landings, one of the peak moments of war history, magnified to the extreme by Hollywood cinema, especially thanks to titles such as "Saving Private Ryan", "The Longest Day" or "Overlord". The reality, despite the movies, was very different and beyond the heroism, the personal misfortunes, the plans that only paper supported and the final success, hides thousands of stories that deserve to be told, especially those that were crucial for the outcome of the operation but that continue in the shadows, like the suicide attacks that had to be carried out [Keep reading…]

  The Civil War and the Third Spain: How extreme minorities led us to war “The Civil War and the Third Spain: How extreme minorities led us to war” is a delicious book for those of us who deny all those explanations of the sectarian Civil War that are, without a doubt, the ones that resonate the most among the population. Therefore, it is a must-read book for anyone who thinks that Spain could have been another and should be another and that, after a critical review of the past, far from both extremes, it must reestablish itself in what it always should have been. What if Franco destroyed democracy and the Republic, what if the left kidnapped the Republic and started the bloodbath with their massacres of priests and landowners, what yes, what yes, what no. One, the other and none of [Keep reading…]