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

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. 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....

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