“Nancy Johnstone’s account constitutes the most comprehensive chronicle ever written about the republic and the civil war by a full-time British resident.”
Then war broke out and one day in 1936 a Royal Navy destroyer appeared in the bay to rescue British residents.
They chose Tossa, now a popular resort, because Archie said no one he knew had ever been there before.
“Nancy is a powerful character and she gives us an outsider’s view of the war in Spain,” she added.