{"product_id":"zaragoza-bound-a-chronicle-of-the-durruti-column-9781849355827","title":"Zaragoza Bound: A Chronicle of the Durruti Column","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first English-language book dedicated to the story of the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\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 anarcho-syndicalist CNT, left Barcelona. Leading this militia was Buenaventura Durruti, the most famous anarchist in Spain. Durruti and his compatriots had just participated in the street fighting that temporarily defeated Franco's 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 sought to establish free communes outside the control of the brittle Republic, while confronting the fascist advance.\u003cbr\u003eThe roughly seven thousand members of the column were organized without traditional military hierarchy, thus establishing a true anarchist military formation based on solidarity and common purpose. \u003ci\u003eZaragoza Bound\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles 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 Durruti Column are recounted without shying away from hardship and controversies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto Martínez Catalán\u003c\/b\u003e is a geographer and historian from Aragon, Spain, and author of \u003ci\u003eEn el comienzo: Un cuento antiteológico\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eZaragoza Bound\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Sharkey\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51705269059858,"sku":"9781849355827","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ccb63da8-896e-46be-aeba-1013895c8b5f.jpg?v=1762344834","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zaragoza-bound-a-chronicle-of-the-durruti-column-9781849355827","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}