
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
Javier Cercas with Anne McLean (trans.)
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination
Javier Cercas with Anne McLean (trans.)
#3264 of 3,809 books · #1025 in History
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History (2011).
A dramatic account of the February 1981 standoff between right-wing soldiers who would prevent a democratic vote in post-Franco Spain and three men who defied them is comprised of vivid descriptions based on archival footage filmed during the history-making confrontation.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- ISBN-13
- 9781608194919
- Genre
- Topics
- Spanish democratic transition1981 coup attemptPost-Franco Spain politics
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for HistoryShortlisted(2011)
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