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THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-1939
Antony Beevor
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Paperback. The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. Num Pages: 624 pages, 51, 12 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 43. Weight in Grams: 700.
The bestselling author of STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL on the Spanish Civil War, drawing on masses of newly discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
705g
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780753821657
SKU
V9780753821657
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99-98
About Antony Beevor
Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. He is the author of Crete - The Battle and the Resistance, which won a Runciman Prize, Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (written with his wife Artemis Cooper), Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, Berlin - The Downfall, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award, and The Mystery of Olga Chekhova. Stalingrad and Berlin have been translated into twenty-five languages and sold more than two and a quarter million copies between them. His latest work, A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945, is an edition, with his Russian researcher, Dr Luba Vinogradova, of Grossman's wartime notebooks. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France, Antony Beevor has also been the chairman of the Society of Authors and is a visiting professor at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He lives in London and Kent and has a daughter and a son. Go to www.antonybeevor.com for more information. Antony Beevor is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/antonybeevor, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/Antony-Beevor
Reviews for THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN: THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936-1939
the definitive book on the subject.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
exhaustive and admirably clear account.
THE SUNDAY TIMES
The Battle for Spain looks likely to become the standard account of the conflict for at least the next generation
London Review of Books
For the big picture of the war, all the more powerful for its blending of narrative intensity with emotional restraint, there is no rival to Antony Beevor's masterly The Battle for Spain
Independent
Antony Beevor's revised history of the Civil War, which vividly anatomises a state and a society in the process of disintegration, is a tract for our times ... Above all, he has Beevorised the book, given it the richness of detail and the narrative drive that made Stalingrad such a success
Guardian
A very different book, which displays all Beevor's exceptional narrative skills and literary flair. The story he tells is grimly familiar, but he presents it with a freshness, an eye for detail and a degree of detachment that makes this one of the best accounts to date of the Spanish crisis
Evening Standard
It is an admirably clear-sighted account. What Beevor does so well is to place the war in the context of Spanish history and world politics ... Beevor's understanding of warfare and tactics is second to none ... This is a great achievement
Daily Telegraph
This is an enthralling book. The narrative is masterly, wonderfully clear as a guide through the labyrinth. It is even-tempered and full of good sense ... It is admirable
Literary Review
A gripping, revelatory account
Sunday Telegraph
A moving masterpiece of the indictment of war
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Times Literary Supplement
An admirably clear-sighted account ... a great achievement
Miranda France
Daily Telegraph
In many ways it's his most impressive book to date because he coolly makes sense of such a complicated story: the narrative sweep is consummate, the seamless use of so many sources masterful, and the eye for details makes it a superb read
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Mail on Sunday
Fascination lies in the human drama, superbly captured by Beevor ... a vivid chronicle of a dreadful time and place
Max Hastings
Sunday Times
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
exhaustive and admirably clear account.
THE SUNDAY TIMES
The Battle for Spain looks likely to become the standard account of the conflict for at least the next generation
London Review of Books
For the big picture of the war, all the more powerful for its blending of narrative intensity with emotional restraint, there is no rival to Antony Beevor's masterly The Battle for Spain
Independent
Antony Beevor's revised history of the Civil War, which vividly anatomises a state and a society in the process of disintegration, is a tract for our times ... Above all, he has Beevorised the book, given it the richness of detail and the narrative drive that made Stalingrad such a success
Guardian
A very different book, which displays all Beevor's exceptional narrative skills and literary flair. The story he tells is grimly familiar, but he presents it with a freshness, an eye for detail and a degree of detachment that makes this one of the best accounts to date of the Spanish crisis
Evening Standard
It is an admirably clear-sighted account. What Beevor does so well is to place the war in the context of Spanish history and world politics ... Beevor's understanding of warfare and tactics is second to none ... This is a great achievement
Daily Telegraph
This is an enthralling book. The narrative is masterly, wonderfully clear as a guide through the labyrinth. It is even-tempered and full of good sense ... It is admirable
Literary Review
A gripping, revelatory account
Sunday Telegraph
A moving masterpiece of the indictment of war
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Times Literary Supplement
An admirably clear-sighted account ... a great achievement
Miranda France
Daily Telegraph
In many ways it's his most impressive book to date because he coolly makes sense of such a complicated story: the narrative sweep is consummate, the seamless use of so many sources masterful, and the eye for details makes it a superb read
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Mail on Sunday
Fascination lies in the human drama, superbly captured by Beevor ... a vivid chronicle of a dreadful time and place
Max Hastings
Sunday Times