¿Puede un famoso brillante destrozar la vida de una familia? La historia de una joya heredada por dos hermanas en los albores del nazismo. T?nger es escenario de una trama de espionaje entre aliados y nazis por conseguir una ruta a trav?s de ?frica, para el tr?fico de diamantes necesarios para los tanques. El amor entre una joven cat?lica y un hombre jud?o, y la lucha por sobrevivir en una sociedad acelerada por el progreso tensan la trama de una...

Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco's Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work by Paul Preston, the world's foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.

Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that...