Dimensions
134 x 199 x 31mm
Second Edition.
This is a compelling account of one of the most hard fought and bitterest wars of the twentieth century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before the Second World War for the Russians, Italians and Germans whose Candor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica.
Writing in a style that is always highly readable, Antony Beevor clearly 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. 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.
The Spanish Civil War is a crucial episode in the history of modern war and warfare and Antony Beevor's history is an absorbing and lucid account for any reader.
