by José Luis Olaizola · PLANETA: PREMIO PLANETA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408054306
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«La guerra del general Escobar» is the historical novel by José Luis Olaizola, published by Planeta in hardback (184 pages, in Spanish).
Antonio Escobar, a colonel of the Civil Guard, prevented the military uprising from succeeding in Barcelona on 19 July 1936. Despite having a daughter who was a nun, a Falangist son and two brothers who were colonels, he remained faithful to his conscience and to the legal government during the Spanish Civil War. Olaizola portrays him without partisanship as a human figure of the conflict.
Winner of the Planeta Prize in 1983, part of the Planeta Prize Collection. The edition dates from 2004.
Suitable for readers of historical fiction and the Spanish Civil War, with an interest in the personal experiences of its protagonists.
José Luis Olaizola Sarriá was a Spanish writer.
