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In Hiding - The Life of Manuel Cortes (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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In Hiding - The Life of Manuel Cortes (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years
holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Cortes was a
Socialist Party member, an activist in the Republic's land reform
movement, and an organizer in the farm workers' unionization
struggles. As Mayor of Mijas in Andalusia, he became caught up in
the ferment of revolutionary Spain in the late 1930s. A marked man,
he evaded Franco's execution squads to survive in hiding through a
generation of persecution and terror until amnesty was decreed in
1969-a period of thirty years. With his wife and daughter, he
attempted to escape to France, but failed. In this absorbing
narrative, based on numerous interviews with the mayor conducted by
Ronald Fraser, a master of oral history, Cortes's truly
awe-inspiring ordeal is supplemented by his family's life histories
and experiences during the Civil War. A haunting tale and a
monument to the art of the oral historian, In Hiding reminds us
what the Spanish Civil War was really about.
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