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

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Phoenix, 2007 - 586 من الصفحات
'The Battle for Spain' revisits the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of material from the Spanish, Russian & German archives. The author's account narrates the origins of the Civil War & its violent course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years.

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British historian Antony Beevor was born on December 14, 1946. He was educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst and studied under the well-known World War Two historian, John Keegan. Beevor was an officer with the 11th Hussars for five years before becoming a writer. His works have received awards including the Runciman Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History, and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. The French government made him a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1997, and in 2008 the president of Estonia awarded him the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana. In 1999 Beevor was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the 2014 Pritzker Military Museum and Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. In 2015 he made The New Zealand Best Seller List with his title Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble.

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