by Ricardo Fernández de la Reguera, Susana March · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788432088230
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«El desastre de Annual» is the historical novel by Ricardo Fernández de la Reguera and Susana March, published by Planeta in paperback (440 pages, in Spanish).
The work recounts the defeat of the Spanish army at the hands of the Rif tribes in the Moroccan Protectorate during the 1921 campaign. Starting from the offensive ordered by General Fernández Silvestre, the action moves through the successive milestones of the disaster: Abarrán, Igueriben, Annual and Monte Arruit. With great dramatic drive and drawing on historical figures, the authors reconstruct the errors and the chain of events that led to the deaths of some ten thousand officers and soldiers.
Volume 7 of the series «Episodios nacionales contemporáneos». The edition consists of 440 pages in paperback; other editions cite 448 pages.
For readers interested in the military history of Spain and in the colonial campaigns in the Rif, as well as for followers of historical fiction set in the contemporary era.
