The Spanish Civil War

Published by Éditions Házan, 1997, softcover, pocket sized, illustrated, 198 pages, some wear to corners of cover , otherwise conditio: very good.

A brief memoir and chronology of the fighting of the Durruti Column in the Spanish Civil War by a participant, Abel Paz, who spent eleven years in prison under Franco. Very well illustrated with many photographs.

"Many new centers of power had emerged: the federation of the barricades, the district revolutionary committees, the factory committees, urban transit and railroad committees, health committees, hospital and public welfare committees, grade and high school committees, and many others. From the viewpoint of any system of State power, this situation was chaos."

A very short pocket book where Paz recounts his experiences of the first week of the Revolution in Barcelona. He was there when the Assault Guards gave out weapons to the people surrounding the Generalitat, beginning the breakdown of state power, and when the transit workers took control of the trams, beginning mass collectivization. Most of the book is made up of photographs, some from Paz's collection.