"To Bury the Dead" is an investigation of a brutal political murder
and fascinating literary feud hidden by the dust of the Spanish
Civil War. At the end of 1936, five months after Franco and his
allies staged their coup against the Republican government of
Spain, Jose Robles was arrested by undercover police during the
increasingly bitter Civil War. Held under suspicion of treason
under false charges, his subsequent detention and eventual
execution were kept secret by the government. A close friend of
Robles, the writer John Dos Passos, vowed to uncover the truth but
was met only with a conspiracy of silence.Ignacio Martinez de Pison
picks up the trail where Dos Passos left off, obsessed with
discovering the true story. He traces the two men's long
friendship, establishes their Republican credentials and tries to
discover how and why Robles was killed, an answer that might lead
to an explanation of why two of the most famous American writers of
the time, John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway, both committed
anti-fascists, went from being close friends to irreconcilable
enemies. A story about real people whose lives were caught up in
and shattered by political events, "To Bury the Dead" exposes power
struggles, ideological feuds and deadly political rivalries.
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