Reading Group: "Internal Services"

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Basque

What's it about

Katixa Agirre has titled her new novel "Internal Services". The novel is set between the years 1937 and 1943. Dark times. The Spanish Civil War, and in its wake the Second World War: hundreds of thousands of men killing each other in trenches, at sea and in the air, but this is not the usual war story of men, but about some brave women who, during that dark period, saved the lives of others. In fact, with the war lost in the Basque Country, the protagonists of this novel began to visit their husbands and nephews imprisoned in jails and concentration camps; they smuggled clandestine messages into prisons and later got out, and from there they created a broad espionage network that provided the French and British with details about the Franco regime and its German and Italian allies. This was the Álava network. The author has built a historical novel set in a fascinating time, composed with mystery thriller techniques and enriched with several games that catch the reader's attention.

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