Author: Mariano Azuela
- Fiction
- Penguin Books 
- ISBN: 9780140266214
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Lluís Agustí

Azuela's novel was one of the first to tackle the Mexican Revolution, and we can also say, one of the best and most truthful contemporary accounts, a magnificent portrait of a people and an era. The narrative of the military campaign and the personal experience of Demetrio Macias serves as a paradigm of the Mexican who lives, suffers, and fights in the Revolution, sometimes without a clear notion of motives, but impelled by forces beyond his control.