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The War of 1912 (Spanish: Levantamiento Armado de los Independientes de Color, lit. 'Armed Uprising of the Independents of Color'), also known as the Little Race War , the Negro Rebellion , or The Twelve , was a series of protests and uprisings in 1912 in Cuba , which saw conflict between Afro-Cuban rebels and the armed forces of Cuba.
For the next 50 years, Burgess steadily wrote books that were published around the world in many languages, including French, Gaelic, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish. Collaborating with him was his illustrator and friend Harrison Cady who was born and raised in Gardner, Massachusetts , and thereafter of New York and Rockport, Massachusetts .
The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse (Spanish: Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis) is a novel by the Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez. First published in 1916, it tells a tangled tale of the French and German sons-in-law of an Argentinian landowner who find themselves fighting on opposite sides during the First World War .
Sir Paul Preston CBE (born 21 July 1946) is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Francisco Franco, and specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 50 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.
Virgilio Piñera Llera (August 4, 1912 – October 18, 1979) was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short story writer, essayist and translator.His best known works are the poem La isla en peso (1943), the collection of short stories Cuentos Fríos (1956), the novel La carne de René (1952) and the play Electra Garrigó (1959).
His first memoir, Mine Were of Trouble, described his experiences in the Spanish Civil War. Later, No Colours or Crest described his wartime experiences in Albania and Poland as a Special Operations Executive agent and Alms for Oblivion described his postwar experiences in Bali and Lombok .
27 November – Spanish protectorate in Morocco: By a treaty with France, Spain is granted a zone of influence in northern and southern Morocco. [1] Founding of FC L'Escala; Founding of the Open de España golf tournament.
Fredric Warburg, the publisher of Storm over Spain, admitted in his autobiography that the book had been "a flop", but added that it was "the only pacifist study I ever read of the Spanish War". [1] In 2021, Katrina Goldstone commented in the Dublin Review of Books on the reprinting of a work by Peadar O'Donnell