Criticism of "Sánchez Mazas. The Phalangist Who Was Born Three Times"

In 2001 Javier Cercas published “Soldiers of Salamina”, a novel that narrates the hard period that, during the Spanish Civil War, Rafael Sánchez Mazas (Madrid, 1894-1966), one of the founders -"old shirt" - of Spanish Falange and a prominent member of the so-called "literary cut" of José Antonio Primo de Rivera. He was the victim of a collective shooting of which would be badly hurt and, giving himself to the escape, would be discovered by a Rep…