'Paracuellos': The Elimination of the 'Fifth Column' in Republican Madrid During the Spanish Civil War

by Julius Ruiz

Book Overview

This book examines the most polemical atrocity of the Spanish Civil War: the massacre of 2,500 political prisoners by Republican security forces in the villages of Paracuellos and Torrej on de Ardoz near Madrid in November/December 1936. The atrocity took place while Santiago Carrillo -- later Communist Party leader in the 1970s -- was responsible for public order. Although Carrillo played a key role in the transition to democracy after Franco's death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845197879
• ISBN13: 9781845197872
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"