Death's Favorite

It has been eighty years since the radio operator of the putschist General Frank sent the agreed signal for revolt into the airwaves: The sky over the whole of Spain is clear. The uprising against the democratic government soon turned not only into a civil war, but also into a prelude to the Second World War. With the Spanish Republicans, alone against Franco's army, Moroccan mercenaries and fascist Germany, Italy and Portugal, volunteers from many countries of the world fought, including more than two thousand Czechoslovak inter-brigadists.

The novel's story of a trio of idealists, Václav Petřík, the Thälmann man Hans Waldek and the Spanish girl Esperita, has a realistic basis and it is no coincidence that it is reminiscent of Hemingway's legendary book To Whom the Bell Tolls.