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Promised Heaven. A Spanish Woman in the Service of the NKVD. The Mercader Family Story

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Promised Heaven. A Spanish Woman in the Service of the NKVD. The Mercader Family Story
29.99 €
The ice pick and the heartbreaking scream were the tragic backdrop to Trotsky's assassination. The story that took place eight decades ago, in 1940, will inevitably be reconstructed a thousand times, because it immediately became one of the myths of the past century. The episode of Trotsky's assassination in the dramatic fate of the Merkader family is only one of a number of great odysseys to which modern authors never tire of referring. Yet the protagonist of this book is not Ramon Mercader himself, but his mother Caridad, who was caught in the tragic maelstrom of twentieth-century history. Caridad was a spectacular, cruel and charming woman, a classic type of anti-hero - a kind of Lady Macbeth, able to pull the strings of history, believing in the correctness of her chosen ideology.
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