"History of Spain" ("Una historia de Espaa") from writer and journalist Arturo Pérez-Reverte, best-selling author of "The Flemish Board", "Skin for the Drum" and many others, was published in 2019 and immediately sold out in Spain by a giant circulation. In this book, the author offers his caustic, funny, personal and completely unorthodox view of his native country. Perez-Reverte tells about the main events of Spain's past - from its origins to the 80s of the 20th century - assessing them with an emphatically subjective view, formed on the basis of a deep knowledge of history, understanding of its processes, experience and common sense. “I write about history the same way I write novels and articles,” says the author. “I wasn’t looking for any particular angle, it was all the result of my thinking.” His story is built so fascinatingly and masterfully, so rich in vivid details, so clearly relies on professionally structured documentary materials that it is worthy to take an honorable place among the best examples of popular literature, and among the works of historians.