In Hiding: The Life of Manuel Cortes

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In the mountain of books about that war there cannot be another so brief and yet so complete so unguarded and yet so subtle so movingly human as this. Arthur Miller The New York Times In Hiding is the spellbinding story of a man who spent thirty years holed up in his own home to escape execution. Manuel Corts a socialist and mayor of the village of Mijas in Andalusia became a marked man once Franco s forces took power. Corts stayed under cover until amnesty was decreed in 1969. This absorbing narrative based on numerous in-depth interviews chronicles an awe-inspiring ordeal and depicts one of Spain s darkest hours in visceral detail.