LES CADETS DE L'ALCAZAR. Complete in 2 parts published in "la Revue universelle", Volume 67, Numbers 15 & 16 for November 1936. [2 Issues].

Paris: Revue universelle, November 1-15, 1936., November 1-15, 1936.. Very good. - Octavo, 10 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, 2 issues bound in printed gray wrappers titled in black on the front covers and the spines. The edges of the covers are lightly creased with a couple of very tiny tears and minor chipping to the head of the spines. Volume LXVII, No. 15, November 1, 1936, pages 257-384 & 4 pages of ads on orange stock; Volume LXVII, No. 16, November 15, 1936, pages 385-512 & 8 pages of ads on orange stock. There are minor creases & chipping to the overlapping edges of a few of the deckle-edged pages. Very good.

First edition, the publication in book form is advertised on the back cover of the November 15 volume.

Near the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the Nationalist Colonel José Moscardo Ituarte, the military governor of the Toledo Province, held the Alcazar against overwhelming Republican forces during the Siege of the Alcazar. With a poorly armed group of fighters, he held out for General Francisco Franco's Nationalist forces for 70 days from 22 July to 27 September 1936. The cadets were loyal to the Francoist army. This short work chronicles the siege of the Alcazar in Toledo by Republican forces.The work is pro-Nationalist, with Falangist and Carlist songs reprinted in its pages.

Robert Brasillach (1909-1945) was a fascist and an antisemite. He was executed after the war for being a collaborator. His biographer Alice Kaplan called him the "James Dean of French fascism".