Cultural Writing. Biography. Politics & History. Translated from the Spanish by Chuck Morse, this is the unabridged and definitive biography of Spanish revolutionary and military strategist, Buenaventura Durruti. DURRUTI IN THE SPANISH REVOLUTION is as much the biography of a nation and an era as of a man. Abel Paz, who fought alongside Durruti in the Spanish Civil War, seamlessly weaves intimate biographical detail with extensive historical background, governmental intrigue, and blow-by-blow accounts of major battles. An amazing and exhaustive study of an incredible man and his lifelong struggle against fascism in both its capitalist and Stalinist forms. "Durruti was the ultimate working-class hero: carrying the future in his heart and a gun in each pocket. Abel Paz's magnificent biography resurrects the very soul of Spanish anarchism"--Mike Davis.

Abel Paz (August 12, 1921 - April 13, 2009) was a Spanish anarchist, former combatant and historian. Abel Paz was the pen name of Diego Camacho. He was born in Almería in 1921, and moved with his family to Barcelona in 1929. In 1935 he started work in the textile industry and joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). During the Spanish Civil War and Spanish revolution he fought in the Barcelona May Events of 1937. After the fall of Catalonia in January 1939, he went into exile in France, where he was interned. During the 1940s he fought both in the French resistance to Hitler and the Spanish Anarchist resistance to Franco. He was the author of numerous works on anarchist history, the most important being his biography of Buenaventura Durruti which has appeared in several editions, and numerous languages.