The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor

The Battle for Spain by Antony Beevor

The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica. Antony Beevor's account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. He succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.

Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. His latest work, A WRITER AT WAR - VASILY GROSSMAN WITH THE RED ARMY 1941-1945, is an edition, with his Russian researcher, Dr Luba Vinogradova, of Grossman's wartime notebooks. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France, Beevor has been chairman of Society of Authors; he is a visiting professor at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is married to the writer Artemis Cooper.

Previous titles:

The Battle for Spain (HC July 06);

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army (ed);

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova;

Berlin: The Downfall;

Stalingrad;

Paris after the Liberation;

Crete: The Battle and the Resistance

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ISBN 13	9780753822807
ISBN 10	0753822806
Title	The Battle for Spain
Author	Antony Beevor
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2007-02-01
Number of pages	624
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