Un historia bien contada, con muchos detalles que desconocía. Este mundo del cómic tiene joyas como ésta que debería conocerse más, sobre todo, en institutos cuando te quieren enseñar datos históricos. A pesar de la crudeza de los hechos que narra, te sumerges y disfrutas de cada una de sus páginas que se nota que están cuidadas al detalle por los datos. Gracias, por hacerme conocer nuestra historia .

Un libro genial aunque un poco confuso a veces.

Prachtig boek. Het vertelt een stukje grotendeels onbekende geschiedenis en het zet je ook aan het denken over de dingen die vandaag de dag gebeuren.

I highly recommend Paco Roca's historical graphic novel, "Twists of Fate". It tells the story of the Spanish soldiers from the civil war, refugees from Franco, who ended up in Algeria under a brutal Vichy government. They fight for the French Foreign Legion, then desert to join the "La Nueve" division of the Free French army, first fighting the Germans in North Africa, then fighting through France, being the first to enter Paris, and the ones to storm Hitler's last stronghold.

It's not all about the fighting, or it wouldn't have interested me. It's framed by a (fictional) conversation between the cartoonist and a survivor. It was fascinating to learn how much of the French army were refugees from all over Europe. The Spanish were anarchists, communists and Republicans. They only listened to a French officer if they respected him, for they were already veterans of 3 years of war and figured they knew what needed to be done. The shoddy treatment of the Chadian solders In North Africa by de Gaulle shouldn't have surprised me, but did.

Twists of Fate by Paco Raco is a graphic novel illuminating the extraordinary life of Miguel Ruiz, a Spanish Veteran who was exiled to France. Ruiz was a member of " La Nueve" a company of men who when from fighting against facism in Spain's Civil war to fighting with Chadians in Tunisia to Liberating France. Twists of Fate shines a light on the international lens of World War II and fighting against facism in Africa and Europe.

I dont like rating memoirs because I feel like I have no place to rate someone else's life. However, Paco Roca does an excellent job story telling Miguel's story, and the use of color is extrodinary.

( I pressed the stars by accident & idk how to get rid of them)