Vicente Blasco Ibáñez — jailed some thirty times as a republican agitator in Valencia — wrote the novel that sold in the millions, made Rudolph Valentino a star, and gave the twentieth century the phrase it still reaches for in disaster. An Argentine landowner's family is riven by the Great War: two daughters married into France and Germany, cousins facing each other in opposing armies, and the patriarch's fortune paying for both sides. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates, Dürer's horsemen and Nevinson's machine-gunners among them.
