[ducks rotten tomatoes, etc.]
Seriously, there's a very readable account of the Rif War by David S. Woolman entitled Rebels in the Rif, published by Stanford University Press in 1968. There's also the second volume of Arturo Barea's memoirs entitled The Road, a hair-raising account of Barea's experiences as a Spanish Army engineer in the Rif. Anual was probably the worst defeat ever inflicted on a European colonial army by a non-European force, and that includes Adowa and Dien Bien Phu. My mind is aglow with whirling transient nodes of thought careening through a cosmic vapor of invention. -- Hedley Lamarr.
And then, of course, there is this. (Yes, I'm kidding...) The world's northernmost desert wind.
