Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Vicente Blasco Ibanez - 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 pa...