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Title: The Battle for Spain
Condition: New
EAN: 9780753821657
ISBN: 9780753821657
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format: Paperback
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 24/05/2007
Item Height: 214mm
Item Length: 136mm
Item Width: 48mm
Item Weight: 700g
Author: Antony Beevor
Language: English
Subtitle: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
ISBN-10: 0753821656
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Release Year: 2007
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.

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