Jesús Barranco

Jesus Barranco Reyes (born 11 November 1976, in Tenerife) is a Spanish writer and forestry engineer from the Canary Islands.

Education Barranco graduated as a forestry engineer from the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) in 2002, and as a wildfire manager MSc from the University of Lleida (UdL) in 2015. He is finishing a geography and history degree at the National University of Distance Education (UNED).

Writing career Barranco's first known book was a wildfire-fighting handbook, Manual de lucha contra incendios forestales. It was first distributed in 2018 through Amazon and was later republished in 2025 by Ediciones Singularidad .

In 2023, he published Grandes Liadas de la Historia (Great Historic Fiascos), a humorous and sarcastic book about various historical disasters, released by Caligrama. After three editions, the book was revised and republished by Ediciones Singularidad in 2024 . In 2025, this book was also published in English, in a translation by Timothy Bruce Allen .

Also in 2024, Barranco published a compilation of episodes related to women in warfare, titled Grandes guerreras de la historia (Great Female Warriors in History), written in a similarly sharp and humorous style and focused on the lives of women involved in armed conflicts.

In 2025, he published Guerras absurdas de la historia (Absurd Wars in History), a book about singular and hardly justifiable conflicts that began for highly unusual reasons .

In 2026, he published his fourth history book, Gestas y singularidades de la historia (Deeds and Oddities of History), a work built around the idea that history is full of exploits and remarkable episodes that deserve to be remembered not only for what happened, but also for what they meant to later generations .