The Battle for Spain
The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
$35.45
- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2009
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753821657 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753821656 |
| Author: | Antony Beevor |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2009 |
| Weight: | 650g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 136mm x 48mm |
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exhaustive and admirably clear account. - THE SUNDAY TIMESthe definitive book on the subject. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
exhaustive and admirably clear account. - THE SUNDAY TIMES
the definitive book on the subject. - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAbout The Author
Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. His latest work, A WRITER AT WAR - VASILY GROSSMAN WITH THE RED ARMY 1941-1945, is an edition, with his Russian researcher, Dr Luba Vinogradova, of Grossman’s wartime notebooks. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France, Beevor has been chairman of Society of Authors; he is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is married to the writer Artemis Cooper.
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