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Book Defence of Madrid

Download or read book Defence of Madrid written by Geoffrey Cox and published by London : V. Gollancz. This book was released on 1937 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Defence of Madrid

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  • Author : Amanda Marie Spencer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Defence of Madrid written by Amanda Marie Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Struggle for Madrid

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  • Author : Robert Garland Colodny
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release : 2009-11-01
  • ISBN : 1412839246
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Struggle for Madrid written by Robert Garland Colodny and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Struggle for Madrid is a study of the battles that were waged between the armies of the Spanish Republic and the armies of General Francisco Franco for the city of Madrid. It was this struggle, beginning with the collapse of Republican arms at Toledo in September, 1936, and ending with the victory of the Madrid armies at Guadalajara in March, 1937, that determined the duration and characteristics of the rest of the conflict. It was the central episode of the Spanish War. Due to international intervention, the Spanish struggle lost its purely national character and became at once a civil war of a profoundly Spanish type, a war of independence waged by a section of the Spanish people against German, Italian, and Moroccan armies, and a clash of supra national ideologies that aroused the deepest passions of peoples far removed from the immediate Spanish interests at stake. Although the passions aroused by the war distort contemporary accounts of the fighting, the totalities of these obstacles present no insurmountable barrier to a preliminary investigation of the Madrid battles. Such a study is best undertaken while many of the principal actors in the Madrid tragedy still live. If truth has been affronted the witnesses may yet speak, and from the debate margin of error will be reduced. Robert Colodny's groundbreaking cross of military history and political ambitions helps reduce the gap between fiction and fact.

Book The  Red Terror  and the Spanish Civil War

Download or read book The Red Terror and the Spanish Civil War written by Julius Ruiz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with one of most controversial issues of the Spanish Civil War (1936–9): the 'Red Terror'. Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudicially executed in Republican Spain following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' seriously undermined attempts by the legally constituted Republican government to present itself in foreign quarters as fighting a war for democracy. This study, based on a wealth of scholarship and archival sources, challenges the common view that executions were the work of criminal or anarchist 'uncontrollables'. Its focus is on Madrid, which witnessed at least 8,000 executions in 1936. It shows that the terror was organized and was carried out with the complicity of the police, and argues that terror was seen as integral to the antifascist war effort. Indeed, the elimination of the internal enemy - the 'Fifth Column' - was regarded as important as the war on the front line.

Book Spain in Arms

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  • Author : E. R. Hooton
  • Publisher : Casemate Publishers
  • Release : 2019-02-19
  • ISBN : 1612006388
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Spain in Arms written by E. R. Hooton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed military history of the Spanish Civil War dispels long-held misconceptions and sheds significant new light on the conflict. Spain in Arms chronicles the development of the Spanish Civil War on the battlefield, examining eight campaigns waged between 1937 and 1939. Through detailed analysis, it demonstrates how many accounts of military operations during this conflict are based upon half-truths and propaganda. From the Madrid Front to the Catalonia Offensive, each campaigns is chronicled with special focus on the weapons and tactics used, as well as the moment-to-moment decisions of both Republican and Nationalist generals. Hooton also sheds light on the true extent of foreign intervention in the conflict. Using British and French archives, he produces a more accurate—and radically different—account of the battles and the factors that shaped them. Ultimately, Hooton reveals the superiority of the Nationalist alliance in both training and overall command. Spain in Arms draws on specialized German, Italian and Russian works, and is the first book to quote secret data about Italian air operations intercepted by the British. A magisterial work of military history, it combines detailed analysis with historical context, showing how the events of the Spanish civil War provide a link between the First and Second World Wars.

Book Defence of Madrid

Download or read book Defence of Madrid written by Geoffrey Cox and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Geoffrey Cox's eyewitness account of 1936 Madrid under aerial and ground attack from Franco and his fascist allies.

Book Spain at War

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  • Author : George Richard Esenwein
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Spain at War written by George Richard Esenwein and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Battle for Madrid

Download or read book The Battle for Madrid written by George Hills and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Revenge

Download or read book The Politics of Revenge written by Paul Preston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A succinct and disturbing account of the role of the Spanish Right in the course of the twentieth century.

Book The Defence of Madrid

Download or read book The Defence of Madrid written by Phil Gillan and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spain s Civil War

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  • Author : Harry Browne
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-09-25
  • ISBN : 1317888170
  • Pages : 159 pages

Download or read book Spain s Civil War written by Harry Browne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a succinct analysis of a critical period in Spain's history. It assesses the causes and course of the Civil War and covers Franco's New Spain. For the Second Edition there is a fuller examination of the politics of the Second Republic and the regional and social bases of Spain's political parties. There is also a more detailed account of the military conduct of the war and of the extent of international involvement.

Book The Spanish Civil War  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book The Spanish Civil War A Very Short Introduction written by Helen Graham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Helen Graham highlights the domestic and international context of the Spanish Civil War, and reveals its origins in the political and cultural anxieties provoked by the rapid modernization of Europe. Using personal narratives, she combines a powerfully human account of the war an its aftermath with a disturbing ethical enquiry into its legacy for the 21st century."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Last Days of Madrid

Download or read book The Last Days of Madrid written by Segismundo Casado and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Battle for Spain

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  • Author : Antony Beevor
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780143037651
  • Pages : 588 pages

Download or read book The Battle for Spain written by Antony Beevor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War's outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the twentieth century. With new material gleaned from the Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible book (Spain's #1 bestseller for twelve weeks), provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war-its causes, course, and consequences.

Book Defense of Madrid

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  • Author : Geoffrey Cox
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Defense of Madrid written by Geoffrey Cox and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Brigades

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  • Author : Giles Tremlett
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-10-15
  • ISBN : 1408854007
  • Pages : 721 pages

Download or read book The International Brigades written by Giles Tremlett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ** Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award ** 'Magnificent. Narrative history at its vivid and compelling best' Fergal Keane The first major history of the International Brigades: a tale of blood, ideals and tragedy in the fight against fascism. The Spanish Civil War was the first armed battle in the fight against fascism, and a rallying cry for a generation. Over 35,000 volunteers from sixty-one countries around the world came to defend democracy against the troops of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. Ill-equipped and disorderly, yet fuelled by a shared sense of purpose and potential glory, these disparate groups of idealistic young men and women formed a volunteer army of a size and type unseen since the Crusades, known as the International Brigades. Were they heroes or fools? Saints or bloodthirsty adventurers? And what exactly did they achieve? In this magisterial history, Giles Tremlett tells – for the first time – the story of the Spanish Civil War through the experiences of this remarkable group. Drawing on the Brigades' archives in Moscow, as well as first-hand accounts, The International Brigades captures all the human drama of a historic mission to halt fascist expansion in Europe.

Book The Spanish Civil War

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  • Author : Hugh Thomas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1018 pages

Download or read book The Spanish Civil War written by Hugh Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: