The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon

The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon is Georges Bernanos’s eye-witness account of the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. Employing the same prodigious literary talent displayed in his novels, Bernanos exposes the horrifying acts of terrorism that swept through the community of Majorca as Franco established his dictatorship. Disgusted with the rampant materialism and pseudo-Christianity of European society at the end of the 1930s, Bernanos saves his most vehement criticism for the Spanish clergy, denouncing them for their failure to be faithful to the Gospel in their complicity with the Franco regime. Each page displays the tremendous sensitivity of the author to human sufferings and his firm conviction of the good that Christians could do if they would eschew the comforts of indifference for the yoke of holiness. Condensed from the original French edition (and first published in English as A Diary of My Times in 1938), The Great Cemeteries Under the Moon is a sobering reflection on the mystery of evil and the enduring power of hope.