Next Wednesday, January 26, 2022, starting at 7:00 p.m., the book “Abánades 1938. The IV Army Corps, on the attack!” (Military history of the forgotten battle)” by José Romero Serrano, an edition sponsored by the Institute of Military History and Culture (IHCM) and the Guadalajara Provincial Council.
The work, according to the president of the Diputación de Guadalajara, José Luis Vega, in a preliminary greeting “covers a gap in the historiography of the province” and highlights from it as relevant aspects that “for the first time we have a systematic and orderly study of this battle of 1938, developed in the north of the province” in which a history of the main operations of the republican unit in the province is narrated; that “offers, at the same time, a heritage and artistic tour, carried out by researchers from Guadalajara, favored by the mayors of the area” and summarizes what the author calls “the three battles of Guadalajara from the military perspective”. The book, in addition to the aforementioned greeting and another from the director of the IHCM, Enrique Bohigas, is prefaced by the writer and military historian Fernando Calvo González-Regueral plus different collaborations, the main one being by Julián Dueñas, a local historian from Abánades.
José Romero Serrano (Barcelona, 1959) is an Infantry Colonel (Staff Diploma) who has served in Army units and in Staff assignments. A scholar of military history, he is the author of “Las Jornadas del Coronel” (Seville, 2018), co-author of the guide “Guadalajara y sus Campos de Batalla” (Deputation of Guadalajara, 2018), of “Great Treatises of Military Interest ” (Madrid, 2019) and coordinator of “Military Notes of Cuenca” (Diputación de Cuenca, 2020).
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