"The Struggle for Madrid" is a study of the battles that were
waged between the armies of the Spanish Republic and the armies of
General Francisco Franco for the city of Madrid. It was this
struggle, beginning with the collapse of Republican arms at Toledo
in September, 1936, and ending with the victory of the Madrid
armies at Guadalajara in March, 1937, that determined the duration
and characteristics of the rest of the conflict. It was the central
episode of the Spanish War.
Due to international intervention, the Spanish struggle lost its
purely national character and became at once a civil war of a
profoundly Spanish type, a war of independence waged by a section
of the Spanish people against German, Italian, and Moroccan armies,
and a clash of supra national ideologies that aroused the deepest
passions of peoples far removed from the immediate Spanish
interests at stake.
Although the passions aroused by the war distort contemporary
accounts of the fighting, the totalities of these obstacles present
no insurmountable barrier to a preliminary investigation of the
Madrid battles. Such a study is best undertaken while many of the
principal actors in the Madrid tragedy still live. If truth has
been affronted the witnesses may yet speak, and from the debate
margin of error will be reduced. Robert Colodny's groundbreaking
cross of military history and political ambitions helps reduce the
gap between fiction and fact.
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