The bestselling author ofStalingrad 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.
Publisher: Orion Publishing CoISBN: 9780753821657Number of pages: 624Weight: 700 gDimensions: 214 x 136 x 48 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Exhaustive and admirably clear account.'- The Sunday Times
'The definitive book on the subject.'- The Sunday Telegraph
Antony Beevor
The bestselling historian of our times,Antony Beevor made his name with the books Stalingrad and Berlin which recount Soviet-German conflict during WWII,making judicious use of previously un-seen Soviet archive material. Known for his vivid narrative accounts of Twentieth-Century military conflicts,his primary interest is in revisiting and re-evaluating the Second World War; recent volumes including D-Day and a history of the war from an Eastern perspective,The Second World War.
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