The battle for Spain : the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 /
"When the first version of this book was published in 1982 under the title, The Spanish Civil War, Gerald Brenan described it as 'by a long way the best, and fairest and the most accurate book upon it'. Over the intervening years, a huge amount of new material has appeared in Spain an...
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London :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Old Spain and the second republic
- 1. Their most Catholic majesties
- 2. Royal exit
- 3. The second republic
- 4. The popular front
- 5. The fatal paradox
- pt. 2. The war of two Spains
- 6. The rising of the generals
- 7. The struggle for control
- 8. The red terror
- 9. The white terror
- 10. The nationalist zone
- 11. The republican zone
- 12. The army of Africa and the people's militias
- pt. 3. The civil war becomes international
- 13. Arms and the diplomats
- 14. Sovereign states
- 15. The Soviet Union and the Spanish Republic
- 16. The international brigades and the soviet advisers
- 17. The battle for Madrid
- pt. 4. World war by proxy
- 18. The metamorphosis of the war
- 19. The battles of the Jarama and Guadalajara
- 20. The war in the north
- 21. The Propaganda War and the intellectuals
- pt. 5. Internal tensions
- 22. The struggle for power
- 23. The civil war within the civil war
- 24. The battle of Brunete
- 25. The beleaguered republic
- 26. The war in Aragon
- 27. The destruction of the northern front and of republican idealism
- pt. 6. The route to disaster
- 28. The battle of Teruel and Franco's 'victorious sword'
- 29. Hopes of peace destroyed
- 30. Arriba Espana!
- 31. The battle of the Ebro
- 32. The republic in the European crisis
- 33. The fall of Catalonia
- 34. The collapse of the republic
- pt. 7. Vae victis!
- 35. The new Spain and the Franquist gulag
- 36. The exiles and the Second World War
- 37. The unfinished war
- 38. Lost causes