The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge

The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
Paul Preston

No war in modern times has inflamed the passions of both ordinary people and intellectuals in the way that the conflict in Spain in 1936 did.The Spanish Civil War is burned into European consciousness, not simply because it prefigured the much larger world war that followed it, but because the intense manner of its prosecution was a harbinger of a new and horrific form of warfare that was universally dreaded. At the same time, the hopes awakened by the attempted social revolution in republican Spain chimed with the aspirations of many in Europe and the United States during the grim years of the great Depression.On the 80th Anniversary of the conflict, this is a full-blooded account of this pivotal period in twentieth-century European history. Paul Preston vividly recounts the struggles of the war, analyzes the wider implications of the revolution in the Republican zone, tracks the emergence of Francisco Franco’s brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship and assesses the ways in which the Spanish Civil War was a portent of the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it.

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First published in Great Britain by Harper Perennial in 2006

This book is a revised and updated version of A Concise History of the Spanish Civil War, first published by Fontana Press in 1996, revised and updated from The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939, first published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1986

First published in Great Britain by William Collins 2016

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Dedication (#u38c53c5c-a141-5d72-8bc6-12552c02b479)

This book is dedicated to the memory of David Marshall and to the other men and women of the International Brigades who fought and died fighting fascism in Spain.

Contents

Cover (#u9fff73a7-e62c-5303-8acd-57d16ee0c0e5)

Title Page (#u1a3ba310-0525-5ac1-af51-a3bbb700a22d)

Copyright (#ulink_d9e35651-75ef-538a-a867-1ee3cb95d9c8)

Dedication (#ulink_517fcef0-5f65-527b-8c0b-61dc8c71a47d)

Map of Spain (#ulink_08141ec9-dd82-58cb-b4d6-e7d84a5ceef7)

Preface (#ulink_51133890-401a-5815-97e5-936d2387fd8a)

Introduction: The Civil War Eighty Years On (#ulink_e78eef2f-7174-5e2b-bf98-4376ca1c86cb)

1 A Divided Society: Spain Before 1931 (#ulink_cb17025a-d6ee-5c8e-9b76-d29497ead532)

2 The Leftist Challenge, 1931–1933 (#ulink_77e43bb3-1d55-5b37-a2e7-feabdf8b3d77)

3 Confrontation and Conspiracy, 1934–1936 (#ulink_e94c34a5-6169-5f0b-8916-8fb16c154366)

4 ‘The Map of Spain Bleeds’: From Coup d’État to Civil War (#litres_trial_promo)

5 ‘Behind the Gentleman’s Agreement’: The Great Powers Betray Spain (#litres_trial_promo)

6 ‘Madrid is the Heart’: The Central Epic (#litres_trial_promo)

7 Politics behind the Lines: Reaction and Terror in the City of God (#litres_trial_promo)

8 Politics behind the Lines: Revolution and Terror in the City of the Devil (#litres_trial_promo)

9 Defeat by Instalments (#litres_trial_promo)

10 Franco’s Peace (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Principal Characters (#litres_trial_promo)

Glossary (#litres_trial_promo)

List of Abbreviations (#litres_trial_promo)

Bibliographical Essay (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

Index (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Also by Paul Preston (#litres_trial_promo)