The Assassination Attempt on Franco from the Air - 1948

The course of Spanish History might well have been changed on Sunday, 12th September 1948 on the second day of the fishing boat regatta being fought out at San Sebastian before the eyes of General Franco. A group of Anarchists in exile had laid their plans that the chief of state should die in the waters of La Concha Bay beneath a hail of incendiary and shrapnel bombs dropped from a light aircraft…This is the story of that dramatic plan, expanded with original documents not printed in our first edition (titled The Unsung Struggle: Resistance to Franco 1939-51 ; The Assassination Attempt On Franco From The Air - 1948 .) Pieces by Albert Meltzer and Stuart Christie pay tribute to the Spanish anarchist resistance and Tellez, it’s foremost historian.