The best book about war since...All Quiet on the Western Front. - Howard Fast. Gritty realism and an eye for political complexity...the muscular narrative provides valuable testimony of what it was like to fight Spain's rebel Nationalist troops, who enjoyed vastly superior weaponry and manpower supplied by Hitler and Mussolini, while the Western democracies passively looked on. - Publishers Weekly. It's very well done, brought it all back, the grandeur...