by Ian Gibson · Plaza & Janés Editores, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401450617
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«La noche en que mataron a Calvo Sotelo» is the historical essay by Ian Gibson, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (309 pages, in Spanish).
Ian Gibson reconstructs the murder of José Calvo Sotelo, leader of the Spanish right, and the events that days later precipitated the Spanish Civil War. With documentary rigor, the Irish Hispanist sheds light on events that changed the course of Spain's history.
Corrected and revised edition, published in 1986 in the Tribuna collection of Plaza & Janés Historia.
For readers interested in the history of Spain and the events that preceded the Civil War.
Ian Gibson is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel, and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography. His work, La represión nacionalista de Granada en 1936 y la muerte de Federico García Lorca was banned in Spain under Franco.
