Spanish Civil War – authortranslatorOlga

#Bookreview A LONG PETAL OF THE SEA: A Novel by Isabel Allende (@isabelallende) (@BloomsburyBooks) Fantastic. Unforgettable.

Posted on December 2, 2019 by OlgaNunez 21 Comments

Hi all: I bring you a book by a favourite author of mine that I had not read for a very long time. It’s a fabulous book, although the English version won’t be available until January. It has been out in Spanish for several months, but my review is of the English version, and it’s

Posted in Book review, Book reviews Chile, immigration, Isabel Allende, la retirada, Pablo Neruda, refugees, Salvador Allende, Spanish Civil War, Venezuela

#Book review BARNSLEY AT WAR 1939–45 (YOUR TOWNS & CITIES IN WORLD WAR TWO) by Mark Green (@penswordbooks). #WWII

Posted on June 17, 2019 by OlgaNunez 17 Comments

Hi all: I bring you another non-fiction book from one of Pen & Sword collections that I think will interest many: Barnsley at War 1939–45 (Your Towns & Cities in World War Two) by Mark Green. A wonderful chronicle for anybody interested in local history The ‘eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the

Posted in Book review, Book reviews Barnsley, bomb raids, bomb shelters, local history, non-fiction, Pen & Sword, Penistone, Spanish Civil War, WWII, Yorkshire

#TuesdayBookBlog #Bookreview THE LABYRINTH OF THE SPIRITS by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Trans. (@ZafonOficial) (@orionbooks) A magical visit to Barcelona and to the world of books and stories. Unmissable!

Posted on September 25, 2018 by OlgaNunez 28 Comments

Hi all: It’s with great pleasure that I bring you a wonderful book. The Labyrinth of the Spirits: From the bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind (Cemetery of Forgotten Books 4) by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Lucia Graves The long-awaited new novel from the author of the global bestseller and modern classic, The Shadow of the

Posted in Book review, Book reviews, Tuesday Book Blog Barcelona, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Gothic, Lucia Graves, magic, Spanish Civil War, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, The Labyrinth of the Spirits, Translation

#Bookreview Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography by Sebastiaan Faber (@sebasfaber) A book for people unafraid of asking uncomfortable questions. #SpanishHistory #CulturalStudies

Posted on May 7, 2018 by OlgaNunez 19 Comments

Hi all: My review today is a bit different as is the book I share. When I saw it on offer in Edelweiss I had to request it and it proved fascinating. Memory Battles of the Spanish Civil War: History, Fiction, Photography by Sebastiaan Faber The ability to forget the violent twentieth-century past was long seen as

Posted in Book review, Book reviews cultural studies, Fascism, Franco regime, Hispanic history, memory movement, politics. Spanish Republic, Spanish Civil War, Spanish history, the Transition

In Memoriam: Joan Molet a man who didn’t want us to forget #WWII #familyhistory

Posted on April 3, 2017 by OlgaNunez 25 Comments

Hi all: Those of you who have been following my blog for a while might remember that I’ve sometimes shared posts about my mother’s family, in particular about two of her uncles, Josep and Conrado, (although she never got to meet them) who fled Spain during the Civil War, went to France, helped the efforts

Posted in Family stories Amical Mauthausen, France, French Resistance, Joan Molet, Mauthausen, Oxfam, Spanish Civil War, WWII