The Carnation Revolution

Alex Fernandes

The Carnation Revolution
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 July 2024
Pages
400
ISBN
9780861547548

The Carnation Revolution

Alex Fernandes

On the night of 24 April 1974, at five minutes to eleven, a Lisbon radio station broadcasts Portugal's Eurovision entry. By 3 p.m. the next day, the government surrenders and a fifty-year fascist regime is overthrown. Hardly a shot has been fired. Carnations decorate the barrels of the revolutionary soldiers' guns. Portugal is free.

Operation Historic Turn winds through the streets of Lisbon as the revolution unfolds - and reveals the myriad acts of ordinary and extraordinary resistance that made 25 April possible. It's a story of daring escapes from five-storey prisons, soldiers disobeying their generals' orders and simple acts of courage by thousands of citizens. Alex Fernandes also guides us through the curious and contested afterlife of the revolution - and the fates of its heroes in modern Portugal.

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