: The desperate struggle of families trying to stay together amidst chaos, hunger, and constant fire.
The story follows the lives of several characters in Málaga as the city falls to Franco’s Nationalist forces in February 1937. Fearing brutal repression, tens of thousands of civilians—men, women, and children—flee the city on foot along the coastal highway toward Almería. La DesbandГЎ Luis Melero epub
The "Desbandá" (the flight) turns into a nightmare as the refugees are trapped between the sea and the mountains, relentlessly bombarded by Nationalist air forces and shelled by Italian and Spanish rebel warships. The novel personalizes this historical tragedy by focusing on: : The desperate struggle of families trying to
by Luis Melero is a historical novel that tells the harrowing story of the 1937 massacre on the road from Málaga to Almería during the Spanish Civil War. Plot Summary The "Desbandá" (the flight) turns into a nightmare
: It seeks to break the silence surrounding the "Málaga-Almería road massacre," which was largely ignored in official histories for decades.