На линии огня

by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Артуро Перес-Реверте

1938 год, Гражданская война в Испании. Десять дней республиканцы и франкисты отбивают друг у друга городок Кастельетс-дель-Сегре, не имеющий особой стратегической важности. Интебригадовцы и фалангисты, ополченцы и «красные береты», мужчины и женщины, те, кто ушел воевать по убеждению, и те, кого забрали в армию против воли, храбрецы и трусы, те, кому нечего терять, и те, кому есть, куда вернуться, — тысячи людей, которых объединяет очень многое, а разделяет только линия фронта, сражаются друг с другом и гибнут, не всегда помня, за что, и до последнего мига отчаянно не желая умирать. Это война — и она постепенно пожирает всех. «В какой-то момент понимаешь, — говорит Артуро Перес-Ре&

Genres: Fiction

692 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 3, 2022

About the author

Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era.

Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That was confirmed in 1996, when was published the first book of his Captain Alatriste saga, which has been his trademark. After this book, he could leave definitely journalism for focusing on his career as a fiction writer. This saga, that happens in the years of the Spanish golden age, has seen, for now, seven volumes, where Pérez-Reverte shows, from his particular point of view, historical events from Spanish history in the 16th century.

Apart from these, he also penned another successful works like Dumas Club and Flanders Panel, titles that, among others, made Pérez-Reverte one of the most famous and bestseller authors of Spanish fiction of our era.