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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
by Antony Beevor
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Beevors least...
  How Franco seized power. As always, Beevor tells a compelling story, but this is his least attractively written book. It will open for many readers a story they are not familiair with.
  If you want to know the cause of many tensions in Spanish society until now, read this. And please, do have a strong stomach. There is more to war than moving flags on a map and Beevor will show you. Especially in the Spanish Civil War.

• The Battle for Continuity
  Lest I repeat what others have already written so well (and so many times), I will just affirm that this book is mainly up to Beevor's usual standard. Beevor has done us a great service in writing it as well, because the Spanish Civil War is probably one of the more poorly understood wars of the last century. I for one am grateful to have this resource.
  My only gripe is that it seems that he inserted a lot of the information recently gleaned from Soviet archives, in a rather piecemeal fashion. There... more info

• Francisco Franco is still dead....
  le for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor is a much better book than the first full length book that I read on the Spanish Civil War--The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 by Gabriel Jackson. Beevor is much more clear in his explanations and much more thorough in his description of the actual war. In defense of Jackson, he spent much of his book examining the pre-war history of the Second Spanish Republic as his title implies.
  Beevor starts by setting the stage for the... more info

• A good "how", a somewhat weak "why".
  If you are looking for a book telling you _how_ the Spanish Civil was faought on both sides - mostly as estatic warfare, on the WWI model, in which a marginal technological advantage was decisive, a military advantage the Francoist side happened to posess - this is _the_ book to purchase. If, on the contrary, you're looking for a History of the Spanish Civil War explaining the "whys" of the conflict - the ideological outlook of the contending sides and how it shaped their decisions, specially the decision... more info

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