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David Mathieson - Frontline Madrid: Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War (Battlefield Tours/Spanish Civl) - 9781909930094 - V9781909930094
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Frontline Madrid: Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War (Battlefield Tours/Spanish Civl)

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Description for Frontline Madrid: Battlefield Tours of the Spanish Civil War (Battlefield Tours/Spanish Civl) Paperback. The Spanish Civil War still captures the popular imagination, but this is the first guidebook to put the conflict at the centre of its guide to Madrid Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; HBWP; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
With a foreword by Jon Snow. In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned into a bloody civil war. Hundreds of thousands died in a bitter conflict which tore the country apart and rapidly turned into the prelude for an even greater conflict yet to com--the Second World War. The siege of Madrid was the key battle of the war. The world watched and waited for the city to surrender as ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Signal Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909930094
SKU
V9781909930094
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99-50

About David Mathieson
David Mathieson has lived and worked in Madrid for more than 15 years. He is the founder of Spanishsites.org, an educational project which organizes tours of the battlefield sites described in this book. For many years David was Special Advisor the late Robin Cook, the former British Foreign Secretary.

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