Gabriel Cardona

A golpes de sable

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For better or worse, the modern history of Spain has been marked by the presence of military figures of great relevance. As liberators or oppressors, as leaders of the campaigns of the last overseas possessions, as strategists of the civil war or as important political figures. This book reviews the vicissitudes and contributions of the 21 most prominent generals in the history of Spain in the 19th and 20th centuries. It opens with a liberal soldier who fought against absolutism and ended up paying with his life for daring, Rafael del Riego, and closes with a soldier whose contribution to the recovery of democracy after forty years of dictatorship was vital, Gutiérrez Mellado. And between one and the other, the great 19th century swordsmen, Espartero, Narváez, O'Donell, Prim, Wyler and the repression in Cuba, Espartero, Sanjurjo, the strategists of the civil war on the national side and in the Republican side, the dictator Francisco Franco? And to introduce us to this history of Spain , who better than Gabriel Cardona, who knows the secrets of the stories of these great soldiers who have marked the political and social life of our country.  An exciting journey through the life and ideas of 21 military men essential to understanding the modern and contemporary history of Spain.

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