The Spanish Civil War - Reaction, Revolution And Revenge (Paperback, Revised and Expanded Edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	June 2007
Authors:	Paul Preston
Dimensions:	208 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	381
Edition:	Revised and Expanded Edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-32987-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-32987-9
Barcode:	9780393329872

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