The Assassin's Mark

By David Ebsworth

September 1938. Spain's Civil War has been raging for two years, the outcome still in the balance. But rebel General Franco is so confident of winning that he has opened up battlefield tourism along... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781321000
• ISBN13: 9781781321003
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Silverwood Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Disappointing

The assassin's mark (2013); disappointing book. A bit like reading the Guardian in fictional form. Just one example of many: the horrible internecine fighting among the leftists, especially in Catalonia and Barcelona, is barely mentioned (a short paragraph) and the rest of the book is dedicated to the Nationalists' atrocities. When have we ever seen a civil war without atrocities on both sides? So a very partial and by no means objective look at the Spanish civil war, full of clichés and ideological preconceptions, judged in black and white, and verbose to boot **