Free (Nook/Kindle/Sony/Kobo) Spain and Peace [Vintage Political Denunciation]

[ATDrake]

Spain and Peace by Howard Fast is a vintage political pamphlet giving the author's own experiences of what he saw and experienced during post-Civil War Spain under Franco's dictatorship. This is free courtesy of republisher Open Road Media, who just released a slew of Fast's historical novels.

Currently free @ B&N, Amazon & Sony & Kobo (all three available to Canadians). May show up in iTunes once they add it to the catalogue.

The other vintage political Fast work you may be interested in is his still free in multiple stores The Incredible Tito, a 1940s biography of the Yugoslavian leader.

His Open Road republished novels are pretty pricey at $9.99 a pop (though discountable with Kobo coupons), but Sourcebooks offers for just $1.99 as an introductory sale price for a limited time: The Immigrants, the first novel in a 6-book historical family saga, which has been previously offered as a freebie.

But if you didn't get it then and want to pick it up now, it's cheapest at Kobo, where you can use one of the discount codes in the tracking thread in the Kobo forum to take the price down even further. There's currently a new 25% off code, good through the 27th.

Description
Fast’s powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spain’s fight for freedom from governmental oppression

Howard Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Fast supported a hospital for Popular Front forces, and in 1950 he was sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to give the names of other supporters of that hospital to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

In this pamphlet, published in 1951, Fast gives an overview of Spain under the rule of General Francisco Franco, including the mass strikes that were organized to weaken him. Fast’s fervent appeals to readers to reject American military agreements with Spain demonstrate his passionate opposition to fascism.

As Fast writes, “Spain fights on, and in those three words there is a miracle. . . . There is no Spanish worker, professional, intellectual or peasant who strikes a blow for freedom without our being intimately concerned.”

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Howard Fast including rare photos from the author’s estate.