JUAN MODESTO - HÉROES DE LA REPUBLICA

Spain, 1936. Part of the army rebelled against the republic's government, democratically elected by the people. A conflict erupted that would last three long years. It was the Spanish Civil War, a blind race toward catastrophe. And, as history has shown on countless occasions, it is in contexts like this, of great social and political upheaval and military confrontations, that great men emerge, endowed with exceptional charisma, who emerged as leaders of the masses. As could not be otherwise, those men emerged from the Republican ranks who, in most cases, and without any political or military training, knew how to fight for their ideals to the bitter end, becoming the guardians of the hopes and will of an entire people. Like Vicente Rojo, the soldier who designed the Ebro offensive; José Miaja, who was in charge of the heroic defense of Madrid; Durruti, the anarchist leader who became a symbol for an entire nation; and Cipriano Mera, the bricklayer who became one of the military leaders of the Republic. Men, after all, who were forced to board the train of history.