Arms for Spain: The Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War

by Gerald Howson

Book Overview

When military officers rebelled against the left-wing Spanish Republic in 1936, the leaders of Europe called for an international arms embargo against Spain, in the hopes of preventing escalation. Yet... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719555566
• ISBN13: 9780719555565
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: John Murray
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

A big piece of the SCW puzzle

I won't dispute Carlos Villaroel's comments, but I think that Howson's book is still indispensable to the serious SCW scholar because of the Soviet archival material. No one book will satisfy everyone on the question of who is most to blame for the Republic's defeat. There are just too many factors to weigh, and politics will always color people's judgment. While one can make a strong case to blame the Non-Intervention Committee and USSR, the first and biggest nail in the Republic's coffin had to be German and Italian support of Franco. To me, this book was engaging and enlightening because I haven't yet read the mountains of SCW books published in Spain. Everyone studying the SCW must continually read and assemble a composite picture to gain a better understanding.