The Battle For Spain. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Weidenfeld And Nicolson
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 526 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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. This was Antony Beevor's first work of non-fiction, pre-dating his international bestselling Stalingard and Berlin: The Downfall 1945. Now, more than 20 years later, he has substantially rewritten it drawing on masses of newly-discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. His 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.

ISBN: 9780297848325