![]() ![]() A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and. ![]() 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. Book cover for The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor. The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor: 9780143037651 : Books 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. 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. The civil war that tore Spain apart between 19 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. Beevor adds flesh to the sparse bones of what most of us know about the Franco period. The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. ![]()
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