Battle for Spain

Beevor, Antony

£14.99

‘The Battle for Spain’ revisits the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of material from the Spanish, Russian & German archives. The author’s account narrates the origins of the Civil War & its violent course from the coup d’etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years.

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Publish Date: 24/05/2007
ISBN: 9780753821657 Category: Tag:

Description

The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives.

The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica.

Antony Beevor’s account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d’etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.

Additional information

Weight 700 g
Dimensions 214 × 136 × 48 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

586

Language

English

Edition

New Edition

Dewey

946.081 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K