How does a civil war begin? Almost no one wants it. But many want exactly what makes it inevitable.

This book brings face-to-face the Spain of 1936 and the United States of today. Based on Julián Marías' essay and an analysis of a present that can no longer be denied, it traces the parallels between a coup that was thought to be quick and a dictatorship that lasted for decades.

Today, the second Trump administration advances with executive orders, enemy lists, deportations without trial, and the complicity of silence. It's not a warning. It's a statement: we are living a Cold Civil War.

And if we don't recognize it in time, there won't be a civil war. There will be a dictatorship. And without opposition.