Farquhar McHarg

Pistoleros!: The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg (eBook, ePUB)

I: 1918

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Barcelona, 1976: Hired gunmen brutally murder a lifelong friend and fellow anarchist, forcing Farquhar McHarg into a race to document an epic history before he too can be silenced. The first volume of his memoirs finds him a Glasgow boy, dropped by chance into Barcelona's revolutionary underworld at the tail end of the great imperialist war of 1914-1918, recruited by Spanish anarchists to act as a go-between with Britain's Secret Service Bureau. McHarg tells of a corrupt and brutal Spanish regime, bent on bringing a rebellious working class back under its heel, and the generous and recklessly idealistic men and women who struggled to transform it after rejecting traditional party politics.

Pistoleros! is a thrilling tale of intrigue and romance, and a sweeping inside view of the saboteurs and spies, the capitalists and bold insurrectionaries of Spain's bloody past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: PM Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781604866490
• Artikelnr.: 38329580

Autorenporträt

Farquhar McHarg (1900-1978) was born in Glasgow, but a trip to Barcelona in 1918 landed him as a teenager in the middle of a web of espionage and anarcho-syndicalist uprisings. It launched him into the life of an anarchist revolutionary, playing a key role in the Spanish Civil War and the following decades of struggle to overthrow Franco then Salazar, and joining the underworld in multiple continents as he worked to foment revolution across the world. The blaze of 1968 found him an old man, but still fighting to achieve a better world.