{"product_id":"zaragoza-bound-a-chronicle-of-the-durruti-column-roberto-martinez-catalan","title":"Roberto Martínez Catalán | Zaragoza Bound A Chronicle of the Durruti Column book","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew Book\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first English-language book dedicated to the story of the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn July 24, 1936, one week after the Spanish working class took up arms against General Franco's fascist coup, an armed column—comprised primarily of partisans from the CNT, the anarchist trade union—left Barcelona. Leading this militia was José Buenaventura Durruti, the most famous anarchist in Spain. A week prior, Durruti and his compatriots had participated in the street fighting that temporarily defeated the military uprising. Now they were heading to Zaragoza, an important CNT stronghold whose liberation would represent a decisive advance for the war and the revolution. On the way, the Column would help establish free communes outside the control of the brittle Republic, while confronting the fascist advance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe six thousand members of the column were organized without traditional military hierarchy, thus establishing a true anarchist military formation based on solidarity and common purpose. \u003cem\u003eZaragoza Bound\u003c\/em\u003echronicles the column’s battles, membership, and organization. From its creation to its dissolution and integration into the Popular Army of the Republic in 1937, heroic episodes of the Column are recounted without shying away from hardship and controversies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoberto Martínez Catalán\u003c\/strong\u003e is a geographer and historian from Aragon, Spain. \u003cem\u003eZaragoza Bound\u003c\/em\u003e is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaul Sharkey\u003c\/strong\u003e has made a vast body of anarchist works available in English, including those of Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Nestor Makhno, and many more. He lives in Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kirks' Grocery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54288977199268,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0459\/9935\/8116\/files\/3C593962-859E-4510-A150-BD95A8F852EE.jpg?v=1792088306","url":"https:\/\/kirks-grocery.myshopify.com\/products\/zaragoza-bound-a-chronicle-of-the-durruti-column-roberto-martinez-catalan","provider":"Kirks' Grocery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}