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The Spanish Civil War:

Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
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W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 2006 - History - 381 pages
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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A good book very deep and intense also very comprehensive a job to follow who's who at times but an excellent insight into an awful period in history Read full review

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User Review  - Dean MacKinnon-Thomson - Goodreads

4/5 Totally readable and decisively pro-republican. This book deals professionally with the history, while avoiding the dull 'taking no side' fence sitting A must read! Viva la republica! . Read full review

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About the author (2006)

Paul Preston , author of The Spanish Civil War, Franco and Juan Carlos, and The Spanish Holocaust, is the world's foremost historian on twentieth-century Spain. A professor at the London School of Economics, he lives in London.

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TitleThe Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
AuthorPaul Preston
Editionillustrated, reprint, revised
PublisherW W Norton & Company Incorporated, 2006
ISBN0393329879, 9780393329872
Length381 pages
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