Spanish fighters : an oral history of civil war and exile : [interviews with David and Consuelo Granda

List of Plates 1 The village school at Paladin, c.1925. 2 Republican militiamen laying siege to the Nationalist ~,.cces inside Oviedo during the early months of the Civil War.3 David Granda in Gij6n, Christmas 1936, on a two-day leave from the 31st Anti-Fascist Regiment, the 'Maxim Gorky'.4 Consuelo Granda, aged thirteen, just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-26 Village Life Before the Civil War — David....Pages 27-43 Stormclouds gather, 1930–1936 — David....Pages 44-56 The War in Asturias — David....Pages 57-76 The Civil War in Asturias — Consuelo....Pages 77-88 The Fall of Asturias — David....Pages 89-93 Escape from Asturias — Consuelo....Pages 94-98 Catalonia in War — David....Pages 99-105 Exodus across the Pyrenees — Consuelo....Pages 106-111 Across the Pyrenees — David....Pages 112-115 Refugee Labour — Consuelo....Pages 116-125 The Concentration Camp of Septfonds — David....Pages 126-140 Aspres Concentration Camp — Consuelo....Pages 141-146 The Camps of the Holocaust — David....Pages 147-160 The Coming of the Liberation — Consuelo....Pages 161-168 The Coming of the Liberation — David....Pages 169-179 Life in Exile — Consuelo....Pages 180-184 Life in Exile — David....Pages 185-191 Homecoming — Consuelo....Pages 192-200 Homecoming — David....Pages 201-210 Uprooted — Consuelo....Pages 211-212 Uprooted — David....Pages 213-228 Back Matter....Pages 229-250 Annotation Based on extensive interviews with two Spaniard men who grew-up in peasant villages of Asturias during the 1930s. Their account provides a 'grassroots' insight into the poverty and social tensions of local life which eventually led to civil war Neil Macmaster. Interviews With David And Consuelo Granda.