Overview

• Published by Alfaguara, the book follows Llamazares as he revisits Teruel province to present the project on site where his father served as an 18‑year‑old radiotelegraphist in Nationalist ranks.
• Llamazares spent six months covering more than 800 kilometers from La Mata de la Bérbula to the Sierra de Espadán, stopping at stations, trenches and abandoned villages to reconstruct the journey.
• He frames the work as a book about places rather than a conventional war history, arguing that the landscape preserves what family silences left out.
• During a visit to the Pozos de Caudé memorial, where roughly 1,005–1,006 republicans were executed, he encountered heckling and local organizers reported repeated vandalism of victims' names.
• The Battle of Teruel is described as involving around 200,000 combatants for a city of 13,000, changing hands twice and causing tens of thousands of deaths in extreme winter conditions, with the war's legacy still weighing on public debate and estimates of about one million dead and 100,000 disappeared.