The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

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Penguin, 01‏/06‏/2006 - 560 من الصفحات
A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem

To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible book (Spain's #1 bestseller for twelve weeks), provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war-its causes, course, and consequences.
 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
MAPS
Their Most Catholic Majesties
Royal Exit
The Popular Front
The Fatal Paradox
The Rising of the Generals
The Struggle for Control
The Propaganda War and the Intellectuals
Internal Tensions
The Struggle for Power
The Civil War within the Civil
The Battle of Brunete
The Beleaguered Republic
The War in Aragón
The Destruction of the Northern Front and of Republican Idealism

The Red Terror
The White Terror
The Nationalist Zone
The Republican Zone
The Army of Africa and the Peoples Militias
PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT I
The Civil War Becomes International
Arms and the Diplomats
Sovereign States
The Soviet Union and the Spanish Republic
The International Brigades and the Soviet Advisers
The Battle for Madrid
World War by Proxy
The Metamorphosis of the
The Battles of the Jarama and Guadalajara
The War in the North
The Route to Disaster
The Battle of Teruel and Francos Victorious Sword
Hopes of Peace Destroyed
Arriba España
The Battle of the Ebro
The Fall of Catalonia
The Republic in the European Crisis
The Collapse of the Republic
The New Spain and the Franquist Gulag
The Exiles and the Second World
The Unfinished
Lost Causes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
INDEX
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Antony Beevor was educated at Winchester and Sandhurst. A regular officer in the 11th Hussars, he served in Germany and England. He has published several novels, and his works of nonfiction include The Spanish Civil War; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, which won the 1993 Runciman Award; Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942—1943; and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945. With his wife, Artemis Cooper, he wrote Paris: After the Liberation: 1944—1949. His book Stalingrad was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1999.

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