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In Hiding

In Hiding

In Hiding
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by Ronald Fraser

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  • Title In Hiding
  • Author Ronald Fraser
  • Binding Papeback
  • Edition New Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Verso Books , London
  • Publication date pp. 264
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 61295923
  • ISBN 9781844675968 / 1844675963
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 6.6 x 0.76 in (21.49 x 16.76 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Spanish
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Spain - Politics and government - 1931-1939, Cortes, Manuel
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 4

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From the publisher

In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Corts 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, Corts'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.

Media reviews

“In the mountain of books about the war there cannot be another so brief and yet so complete, so unguarded and yet so subtle, so movingly human as this.”—Arthur Miller, New York Times

“[In Hiding] bears [Fraser’s] trademark style, a kind of literary anthropology that tells sweeping stories with a pointillist logic ... Scrupulous about structure and detail, his tales are unfailingly readable—from his depiction of a Spanish village in Tajos to his oral history of the civil war, The Blood of Spain.”—Jonathan Blitzer, Bookforum

“A truly fascinating account.”—Glasgow Herald

About the author

Ronald Fraser is the leading oral historian of twentieth-century Spain. He is the author of several books, including In Hiding, In Search of a Past, Blood of Spain and Napoleon's Cursed War.

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