[Tierra de nadie]
Year:
2015
Type:
Public:
Year of publication:
2017
Pages:
193
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
This is an entertaining adventure featuring Captain Riley, in which the capture of Belchite by the Republican forces during the Spanish Civil War is recounted. Alongside fictional characters, the story includes real figures such as Ernest Hemingway, who at the time had not yet begun his relationship with Martha Gellhorn, the journalist who would later become his wife, and André Marty, who serves as the political commissar of the International Brigades.
The narration is engaging and very amusing, describing how, just before the first bombing of the town, the international troops manage to evacuate several locals, even taking an entire convent of nuns out of the area.