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Author Thomas, Hugh, 1931-2017.

Title The Spanish Civil War / Hugh Thomas.

Imprint New York : Modern Library, 2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Rosen  946.081 T363s 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition Rev. ed., Modern Library pbk. ed. / rev. by the author.
Description xx, 1096 p. : maps ; 21 cm.
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Series Modern Library war
Modern Library war.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [947]-994) and index.
Contents Origins of the war -- Rising and revolution -- World War in miniature -- War of two counter revolutions -- Conclusion -- Appendix one: Spanish bourbons and the Carlist Claim -- Appendix two: Life and death of the Peseta on the tangier exchange -- Appendix three: Estimate of foreign intervention in the Spanish Civil War -- Appendix four: Guernica.
Summary The events, participants, and consequences of the civil war are examined from historical as well as diplomatic, military, and political perspectives. A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated against civilians by both sides in this epic conflict, this "definitive work on the subject" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times) has been given a fresh face forty years after its initial publication in 1961. In brilliant, moving detail, Thomas analyzes a devastating conflict in which the hopes, dreams, and dogmas of a century exploded onto the battlefield. Like no other account, The Spanish Civil War dramatically reassembles the events that led a European nation, in a continent on the brink of world war, to divide against itself, bringing into play the machinations of Franco and Hitler, the bloodshed of Guernica, and the deeply inspiring heroics of those who rallied to the side of democracy. Communists, anarchists, monarchists, fascists, socialists, democrats, the various forces of the Spanish Civil War composed a fabric of the twentieth century itself, and Thomas masterfully weaves the diffuse and fascinating threads of the war together in a manner that has established the book as a genuine classic of modern history.
Subject Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939.
Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) (OCoLC)fst01352321
Spain. (OCoLC)fst01204303
Chronological Term 1936-1939
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0375755152
9780375755156

 
    
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