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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Paperback)

Antony Beevor

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Paperback Published: 24/05/2007

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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.

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9780753821657

Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor is one of Britain's leading historians, winning numerous awards and has been translated into twenty-nine different languages. He studied at Winchester College where one of his tutors was the famous historian John Keegan. Before becoming a full-time writer, Beevor served as an officer with the 11th Hussars and as an account executive with the advertising firm Masius Wynne Williams.

His history books have been hugely successful and are often used themselves as sources in other historical texts. Beevor is often praised for his focus on the ordinary lives of both combatants and civilians in war environments.

Book and writing awards

Runciman Award 1992 (Crete: the Battle and the Resistance), Samuel Johnson Prize 1999 (Stalingrad), Hawthornden Prize 1999 ( Stalingrad ), Longman-History-Today Trustees' Award 2003 (Berlin - The Downfall 1945 ).