The Battle for Spain The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 Price
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|Format:||Paperback, 624 pages| |Other Information: ||51, 12
maps| |Published In: ||United Kingdom, 24 May 2007| 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