by Ian Gibson · Editorial Argos Vergara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471783707
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«La noche en que mataron a Calvo Sotelo» is Ian Gibson's historical work on the assassination of José Calvo Sotelo, published by Argos Vergara in 1982 in paperback (285 pages, in Spanish).
Gibson reconstructs with a historian's technique the assassination of José Calvo Sotelo in 1936, combining archives, press and oral testimonies to place the crime in the tense eve of the Spanish Civil War. The narrative explores the political background, responsibilities and repercussions of the killing, shedding new light on one of the most debated episodes of the period immediately before the conflict.
The work belongs to the Primera Plana collection of Argos Vergara and includes a bibliography (pages 251-256) and photographic plates.
Recommended for readers interested in the history of Spain and in research on the origins of the Spanish 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.
