Peace After War, Vol. II Huizinga First published in 1958 and

First published in 1958 and the fruit of de la Bédoyère’s lifelong “Savonarola-haunting

–Rainer Maria Rilke

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Peace After War, Vol. II Huizinga First published in 1958 andBy Jos Mara Gironella Peace After War advances the chronicle of the Spanish Civil War begun in The Cypresses Believe in God and One Million Dead. Covering only the immediate postwar years and set almost exclusively in Gerona, the novel once again follows the Alvear family and their various friends and enemies, compatriots and competitors as they contend with the consequences of their bloody national conflict. Daily life in Spain quickly finds that the