The battle for spain: the spanish civil war 1936-1939

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Sinopse

The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica.Antony Beevor's account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.

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Autor: Antony Beevor

Autor

ANTONY BEEVOR

Antony Beevor nasceu em Winchester (Inglaterra), em 1946. Estudou em Winchester e na Academia Militar de Sandhurst, é discípulo do mais respeitado historiador britânico sobre a Segunda Guerra Mundial, John Keegan. Tornou-se oficial regular do 11º Regimento de Hussardos e deixou o exército depois de cinco anos para se tornar escritor. Publicou romances e livros de não-ficção, entre os quais Berlim 1945, Stalingrado (vencedor dos prêmios Samuel Johnson de Não-Ficção, Wolfson de História e o Hawthornden), A Batalha pela Espanha, Creta e A Segunda Guerra Mundial.