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The Battle of Teruel 1937, is sometimes referred to as the Spanish Stalingrad. Fought in freezing temperatures, often as low as -20° and in frequent snow blizzards, it is said that more men died due to the weather than as a result of enemy action. A new medical condition, known as Teruel feet, was recognised, as a result of so many amputations due to frost bite. In total, almost 100,000 combatants lost their lives, as the Spanish Republic fought to capture its first provincial capital. Originally conceived to relieve the pressure on Madrid, the attack caught the Nationalists totally by surprise, and provided, just briefly, during Christmas of 1937, a glimmer of hope for the people of the Loyalist Zone. This novel focuses on the role of the war journalists who came to cover the Spanish conflict. Into the Battle of Teruel, rushed two reporters from rival London newspapers. Famous writer H H Stoneham was working from the Republican lines, whilst his former lover, Katerine Miller, was over on the Nationalist side. They were both desperate to provide their readers back home with the latest information from the battle, which they knew could mark the turning point of the war. Often, they showed little regard for their own safety.

Spain, July 1938The Republican army crosses the River Ebro in a last, forlorn attempt to change the course of the Spanish Civil war. The British Brigade is one of the first units to cross with orders to take the town of Corbera de Ebro and then push through the Sierra Caballs towards Gandesa.A young Brigadista, Martin Strachan, son of the famous war poet Lyndon Strachan, is amongst their number. He is wounded in a skirmish and left for dead in an abandoned house where a local girl called Julia finds him and decides to nurse him back to health.At the beginning of September the Nationalists begin to push the Republicans back towards the Ebro and the war returns once more to the Sierra Caballs with tragic consequences for Martin and Julia.

Madrid. March 1939.The final hours of the Spanish Republic. As the doomed Spanish capital prepares to surrender after two years of stubborn resistance, one final mission remains. A lorry, disguised as an ambulance, must leave the city and head south to the port of Alicante, where a ship is waiting to take its valuable secret cargo to South America. The lorry's cargo is so important that the victorious rebels will stop at nothing to capture it. The person given this unenviable task is a young Captain, Daniel Miller Gonzalez, a man who has proved his loyalty to the legitimate Government of Spain on battlefields across the Iberian Peninsula. Together with his lifelong friend Fernando, an English nurse, and the driver of the lorry, Dani tries to outwit the advancing forces of General Franco in a dangerous game of cat and mouse along the last remaining route south out of Madrid. He knows that this final corridor of escape is closing in on him and that every moment is vital, but they can only travel along the back roads and at night as Rebel aircraft are out hunting for them during the daytime. The man entrusted with the task of hunting down the last lorry is the ruthless Captain Roberto Ruiz Roman, a brutal and sadistic expert in extracting information and sniffing out 'Reds.' And, as General Franco himself has said "better Dead than Red." Captain Ruiz has the entire rebel war machine at his disposal for this final wartime mission, and he is not a man accustomed to failure. This is a story of supreme loyalty, of courage when all hope is lost, and, ultimately, of betrayal.

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