Book presentation: Soldiers of Franco. September 23, 2020, Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ateneo Ferrolán


On Wednesday, September 23, Soldados de Franco is presented. Forced recruitment, war experience and military demobilization, whose author is the HISTAGRA researcher Francisco J. Leira Castiñeira at the Ateneo Ferrolán (Calle Magdalena, 202-204, Ferrol).

He will be accompanied by the president of the Ateneo Ferrolán, Xabier Dongil; by the Professor of History of the University of Santiago de Compostela and I.P of HISTAGRA, Lourenzo Fernández Prieto and the professor of the USC and researcher of HISTAGRA Aurora Artiaga Rego

Summary: The coup d'état of July 1936 split Spain in two, configuring a board of terror, misery and death that would end the Republic and support the Franco dictatorship. In the rebellious territory, Franco's soldiers were often not convinced followers, if not mere pawns forced to fight for the future of a Spain in which the only element of cohesion would be fear.

It is revealed how the rebellious army was formed by forced levies and demystifies the story, repeated over and over again, that half of Spain rose up against the Republic for ideological or political reasons. Franco's Soldiers is the story of how the dictator placed the country before a terrible dilemma: become executioners or die.



More information:

http://histagra.usc.gal/es/publicacions/492/soldados-de-franco-recontradamientos-forzoso-experiencia-de-guerra-y-desmovilizacion-militar

http://histagra.usc.gal/gl/persoas/28/francisco-jorge-leira-castineira

http://histagra.usc.gal/gl/persoas/1/lourenzo-fernandez-prieto

http://histagra.usc.gal/gl/persoas/13/aurora-artiaga-rego