Books by Ronald Fraser

Manuel Cortes was a Socialist Party member, an activist in the peasant reform movement and an organizer in the farm workers' unionization struggles. He also became mayor of Malaga, where he was caught up in the ferment of revolutionary Spain in the late 1930s. This title supplements Cortes' ordeal.

We discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. And though the lived experience of the participants is revealed the uniquely tragic essence of all civil war. ' Hugh Thomas, author of THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.