Posted on 10/23/2010 6:56:56 PM PDT by tesbassa
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What ever happened to all that Aztec gold that was sent to the USSR for safekeeping? It seems to have disappered in Russia when Franco took over spain.
My really big recommendation, though is The Cypresses Believe in God by José Maria Gironella, which I am just now reading for a second time.
It covers 1931-1936, covering the chaos (there's that word again) of the pre-war period as it caught up one family in Gerona, a provincial capital in Catalonia. It really illuminates the complexities of the human conflict, and gives --- it seems to me --- a sympathetic and balanced glimpse of all the bewildering multiplicity of factions, anacharist, Catholic, communist, royalist, traditionalist, socialist, liberal, Catalan-nationalist, and more.
Published by Ignatius Press, 800+ pages (and it's just the first of a trilogy!) , can be gotten, used, for under $10 from Amazon.
I think it's tremendous, and really want to read the 2nd and 3rd installments.
Leaves you shaking your head over tormented Spain--- and the tormented human race.
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