In the line of fire
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In the line of fire
14.99 €
1938, the Spanish Civil War. For ten days, the Republicans and the Frankists have been fighting each other for the town of Castelletes del Segre, a town of no particular strategic importance. Intebrigadores and Falangists, militias and "Red Berets", men and women, those who went to fight out of conviction and those who were taken into the army against their will, braves and cowards, those who have nothing to lose and those who have a place to return to - thousands of people who are united by many things, and separated only by the front line, fight each other and die, not always remembering what for, and until the last moment desperately do not want to die. This is war - and it gradually devours everyone.
"At some point you realize," says Arturo Perez-Reverte, "that in a civil war there is no good and evil - there is only a battle of one horror with another. "In the Line of Fire" - a novel about the real war, where there is no heroism, but only naked, to the skeleton stripped and sometimes heroic humanity and an unrelenting fear of death. In this grandiose epic, real testimonies are intertwined with literary fiction, and from the small stories of many people form a colossal piercing picture, in which it is impossible to choose which side you are on, because on both sides - just people, and "the most heinous - that the enemy calls your mother in your native language."
"At some point you realize," says Arturo Perez-Reverte, "that in a civil war there is no good and evil - there is only a battle of one horror with another. "In the Line of Fire" - a novel about the real war, where there is no heroism, but only naked, to the skeleton stripped and sometimes heroic humanity and an unrelenting fear of death. In this grandiose epic, real testimonies are intertwined with literary fiction, and from the small stories of many people form a colossal piercing picture, in which it is impossible to choose which side you are on, because on both sides - just people, and "the most heinous - that the enemy calls your mother in your native language."
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