Forgotten women / Freda Lightfoot.
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SoundPublisher: Grand Haven, Michigan : Brilliance Audio, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Copyright date: ℗2016Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 9 CDs (11 hr., 28 min.) : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781522656432Subject(s): Women and war -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Audiobooks. DDC classification: 823/.914 Performed by Anne Flosnik.Summary: 1936: Spain is on the brink of civil war. Across Europe, young men are enlisting in the International Brigade to free their Spanish brethren from the grip of fascism, leaving sisters and lovers at home. But not all women are content to be left behind. In Britain, Charlotte McBain and Libby Forbes, friends from opposite sides of the class divide, are determined to do what they can; in Spain, Rosita Garcia Diaz, fiercely loyal to her family and country, cannot stand by and watch. Three brave women, inspired by patriotism, idealism, love and even revenge, dare to go into battle against tradition and oppression. Tying them all together is Jo, Libby's granddaughter. Five decades later she travels to Spain hoping to make sense of a troubling letter hidden among her grandmother's possessions. What she learns will change all of their lives forever.
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1936: Spain is on the brink of civil war. Across Europe, young men are enlisting in the International Brigade to free their Spanish brethren from the grip of fascism, leaving sisters and lovers at home. But not all women are content to be left behind. In Britain, Charlotte McBain and Libby Forbes, friends from opposite sides of the class divide, are determined to do what they can; in Spain, Rosita Garcia Diaz, fiercely loyal to her family and country, cannot stand by and watch. Three brave women, inspired by patriotism, idealism, love and even revenge, dare to go into battle against tradition and oppression. Tying them all together is Jo, Libby's granddaughter. Five decades later she travels to Spain hoping to make sense of a troubling letter hidden among her grandmother's possessions. What she learns will change all of their lives forever.
Performed by Anne Flosnik.
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