by Hans Hellmut Kirst · Almuzara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496968783
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«Los lobos» is the historical novel by Hans Hellmut Kirst, published by Almuzara in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
In 1932, farmer Alfons Materna loses his son, recruited by the SA, and decides to fight Nazism with tricks and traps in Maulen, a village in Masuria. For twelve years, while Europe is ravaged by war, he exploits the miseries of local leaders to sabotage the system from within. A satire of the rise and fall of Nazism in rural Germany.
Originally published in 1967 as Die Wölfe, it is one of the few novels by Kirst about Nazism and World War II that is not based on military life.
For readers of historical fiction and war fiction interested in a satire of Nazism in a rural setting.
Hans Hellmut Kirst was a German novelist and the author of 46 books, many of which were translated into English. Kirst is best remembered as the creator of the "Gunner Asch" series which detailed the ongoing struggle of an honest individual to maintain his identity and humanity amidst the criminality and corruption of Nazi Germany.
