On the line of fire

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On the line of fire

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1938 Spanish Civil War. For ten days, the Republicans and Francoists recapture the town of Castellets del Segre from each other, which is not of particular strategic importance. Brigadiers 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, brave men and cowards, those who have nothing to lose, and those who have, where return - thousands of people who are united by a lot, and separated only by the front line, fight with each other and die, not always remembering why, and until the last moment, desperately not wanting to die. This is a war - and it gradually devours everyone.
“At some point you understand,” 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” is a novel about a real war, where there is no heroism, but only naked, skeletonized and sometimes heroic humanity and the relentless fear of death. In this grandiose epic, real evidence is intertwined with literary fiction, and from the small stories of many people a colossal poignant picture is formed in which it is impossible to choose which side you are on, because on both sides there are just people, and “the most vile thing is that the enemy is calling for mother in your own language."

Barcode: 9785389202719 SKU: 70156803 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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