The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition)

The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition)
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 9780393345827
ISBN-13 : 0393345823
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Book Synopsis The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition) by : Paul Preston

Download or read book The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition) written by Paul Preston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007-06-17 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative. Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship, Preston assesses the ways in which the Spanish Civil War presaged the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it. The attempted social revolution in Spain awakened progressive hopes during the Depression, but the conflict quickly escalated into a new and horrific form of warfare. As Preston shows, the unprecedented levels of brutality were burned into the American consciousness as never before by the revolutionary war reporting of Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Herbert Matthews, Vincent Sheean, Louis Fischer, and many others. Completely revised, including previously unseen material on Franco's treatment of women in wartime prisons, The Spanish Civil War is a classic work on this pivotal epoch in the twentieth century.


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