Steve thinks a trip to Europe is out of the question-until he hears his grandfather's will. Suddenly he's off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to a specific address in Barcelona. There he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal he kept during the time he fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Steve decides to trace his grandfather's footsteps through Spain, and with Laia's help, he visits the battlefields and ruined towns that shaped his grandfather's young life, and begins to understand the power of history and the transformative nature of passion for a righteous cause.
Steve's adventures start in The Missing Skull, part of The Seven Prequels and continue in Broken Arrow, part of The Seven Sequels.
John Wilson
**John Wilson** (1837–1915) était un homme politique, magistrat et historien britannique, connu pour son engagement en faveur des droits des travailleurs. Élu conseiller municipal et juge de paix à Durham, il a joué un rôle actif dans la vie publique locale. Son ouvrage *A History of the Durham Miner’s Association 1870-1904*, publié en 1907, reste une référence majeure pour comprendre l’émergence du syndicalisme moderne en Grande-Bretagne. Wilson y combine rigueur historique et témoignage de première main, ayant lui-même été témoin des luttes qu’il décrit.
