The Spanish Civil WarA 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. |
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingAn in-depth study of the lead-in to WWII by a competent British Writer. First published in 1961, but up-dated at least three times, the 1977 edition being the one I read. Franco had been dead three ... Read full review
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User Review - Schmerguls - LibraryThing684. The Spanish Civil War, by Hugh Thomas (read 3 Dec 1961) I was tremendously impressed by this book and so far as I know it is the best objective account of its subject. Read full review
Contents
Rising and Revolution | 187 |
World War in Miniature | 451 |
The War of Two Counter Revolutions | 655 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Spanish Civil War Modern Library Paperbacks Series Modern Library war |
| Author | Hugh Thomas |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Modern Library, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jul 14, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0375755152, 9780375755156 |
| Length | 1096 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Spain & Portugal History / Military / General |
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