90.00€
Jesus Torbado and Manuel Leguineche
The Moles
Translated in English by Nancy Festinger
Published by Secker and Warburg in London in 1981
Original Hard Binding with Dust Jacket
First Edition
8vo, Pages 226
About the book: In the years following 1939, when end of the Spanish Civil War was officially announced, many fighters, sympathisers and people in public positions with the legitimate Republican Government had to go into hiding to avoid Franco-fired repression. The impossibility of escaping death or running away meant that hiding was the only immediate option of survival for these people who were kept going in their places of imprisonment by the hope of being able to change the situation. The term “mole” describes them and was coined by the journalists Manuel Leguineche and Jesús Torbado, authors of the book Los topos (The Moles), published in 1977. This book narrates the experiences of 24 people who for years, and sometimes for decades, suffered darkness, repression and fear. Far from what had initially been thought, the situation that drove them to go into hiding in their own homes, in infamous holes or wedged between double walls, continued for thirty long years. Until, finally, in 1969, a document was published in Spain’s Official State Gazette, announcing the amnesty which pardoned the alleged crimes committed during the Civil War. However, some of them were so afraid they didn’t come out of their hiding places until Franco had died.
