The Battle for Spain - Antony Beevor
The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
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Hardcover, dj, in-8, 526 pp., bibliographical notes, bibliography, index.. 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. This was Antony Beevor's first work of non-fiction, pre-dating his international bestselling STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL 1945. Now, more than 20 years later, he has substantially rewritten it drawing on masses of newly-discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. His 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. And he s...
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2006Uitgever: Weidenfeld & Nicolson584 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0297848321ISBN-13: 9780297848325Koop dit boek tweedehands
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The Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Hardcover, dj, in-8, 526 pp., bibliographical notes, bibliography, index.. 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 L...
The Battle for Spain - The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Hardcover, dj, in-8, 526 pp., bibliographical notes, bibliography, index.. 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 L...
