books.google.co.uk - 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...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Spanish_Civil_War.html?id=2vioVIdend4C&q=attack&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Spanish Civil War