La Artillera (Spanish, Paperback)

Through the eyes of ten women, some real, some imaginary, Angeles de Irisarri recreates everyday life in a city during the war. Representing every social class, these ten women took up arms and shot cannons to the yells of "Win or die." Agustina de Aragon, better known as "la Artillera," the countess of Bureta, Manuela Sancho, Casta Alvarez, Maria Lostal, Maria Agustin and Mother Rafols were survivors of an attack where, in the words of the chronicler Casamayor, the men were "more like Nero than Frenchmen," and the last dead immediately ceased to be the last in a terrifying bloodbath..