The Spanish Civil War, 1936-39

by Paul Preston

Book Overview

"La guerra civil" de Paul Preston es uno de los textos de referencia sobre el conflicto que asol? Espa?a entre 1936 y 1939 y marc? el resto del siglo XX. Ahora, cuando se cumplen ochenta a?os del... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394555651
• ISBN13: 9780394555652
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Well written, highly informative, detailed, hardly a primer

This book is titled in Europe as "The Spanish Civil War, Reaction, Revolution & Revenge." Preston has written extensively and authoratively on modern Spain. The Spanish Civil War was as much political as a war fought on the battlefield. Preston defines the principals, the politics, the strategies and mistakes, the defeats and triumphs and the overwhelming tragedy of this war. The English writings on this war are fortunately extensive and from what I can tell well written. Anthony Beevor has a new reprint of his earlier book on the Spanish Civil War which relies in large measure of Preston's three books on this era. A worthy endorsement one might conclude. Preston's biographies of Franco and Juan Carlos, carry on his valuable contribution to modern Spanish history.