After twelve years in Spain, Jason Webster had developed a deep love for his ado
pted homeland; his life there seemed complete. But when he and his Spanish wife
moved into an idyllic old farmhouse in the mountains north of Valencia, by chanc
e he found an unmarked mass grave from the Spanish Civil War on his doorstep. Sp
urred to investigate the history of the Civil War, a topic many of his Spanish f
riends still seemed to treat as taboo, he began to uncover a darker side to the
country.
Witness to a brutal fist-fight sponsored by remnants of Franco's Fal
angists, arrested and threatened by the police in the former HQ of the Spanish F
oreign Legion, sheltered by a beautiful transvestite, shunned by locals, haunted
by ghosts and finally robbed of his identity, Webster encountered a legacy of c
ruelty and violence that seems to linger on seventy years after the bloody event
s of that war. As in Webster's previous books, "Duende" and "Andalus", !"Guerra"
! reveals the essence of modern Spain, which few outsiders ever manage to see. F
ascinating true stories from the Civil War, vividly retold as he travels around
the country.
