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The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution, and Revenge (Revised and Expanded Edition) Revised and Expanded Edition

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The definitive work on the Spanish Civil War, a classic of modern historical scholarship and a masterful narrative.

Paul Preston is the world's foremost historian of Spain. This surging history recounts the struggles of the 1936 war in which more than 3,000 Americans took up arms. Tracking the emergence of Francisco Franco's brutal (and, ultimately, extraordinarily durable) fascist dictatorship, Preston assesses the ways in which the Spanish Civil War presaged the Second World War that ensued so rapidly after it.

The attempted social revolution in Spain awakened progressive hopes during the Depression, but the conflict quickly escalated into a new and horrific form of warfare. As Preston shows, the unprecedented levels of brutality were burned into the American consciousness as never before by the revolutionary war reporting of Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Herbert Matthews, Vincent Sheean, Louis Fischer, and many others. Completely revised, including previously unseen material on Franco's treatment of women in wartime prisons, The Spanish Civil War is a classic work on this pivotal epoch in the twentieth century.

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Paul Preston, author of The Spanish Civil War, Franco, Juan Carlos, and The Spanish Holocaust, is the world’s foremost historian on twentieth-century Spain. A professor at the London School of Economics, he lives in London.

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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company; Revised and Expanded edition (June 17, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 432 pages
ISBN-10 : 0393329879
ISBN-13 : 978-0393329872
Item Weight : 12 ounces
Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.2 inches

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and to engage in some annoying whataboutism, immediately following up with context designed to ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2017

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The author's personal politics leads him to be rather grudging when he speaks of atrocities committed by the Republican side, and to engage in some annoying whataboutism, immediately following up with context designed to soften the blow against the Republican reputation, or with a worse Nationalist tragedy. This gets annoying, but doesn't ultimately detract too much from an otherwise devastating and informative look at a horrible event.

18 people found this helpful

Revisionist view of the Spanish Civil War

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2019

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Revisionist history that minimizes Republican mistakes and emphsizes the villainy of the nationalist military. Have not finished the book but regret the lack of context that explains why the Spanish on both sides resorted to conflict to resolve their differences...and it may have been the only possible option.

7 people found this helpful

Detailed history of the Spanish Civil War

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2017

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This book provided a very detailed description of the Civil War. It notably described the roles of the Spanish but also that of Italy and Germany. The atrocities described were shocking given that both sides were countrymen.

One criticism is that one could easily get bogged down in some of the detail.

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Use a bookmark for the persons and groups section to help!

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2018

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If you're interested in understanding modern Spanish politics this is a big help with the 1920's to the end of the 30's. It can feel like a sprawling narrative with all of the different figures and groups involved, but by using bookmarks and constantly referencing who is who and doing what (which can be a little time consuming but ultimately worth it), you get into the story.

Not only does Preston bring discuss politics, but also the regional identities in Spain and how they interacted and impacted the outcome of the Spanish Civil War. This conflict is part of the power balance and shows the rise of fascism that started the second World War. I'd recommend this book to anybody who is curious about Spain's history, the roots of fascism, World War II history and world history.

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Not as good as I expected but at least I now understand what it was about

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2019

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It’s not a page turner. Hard to keep up
With who’s who. It’s hard to believe we were rooting for the Communists, e.g., the International Brigade.

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Very good history of a turbulent time.

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2017

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Exactly what I wanted, clear and concise. Not very biographical, but a good history.

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Ronald L. Stefani

Thorough coverage of the causes of the Spanish Civil War

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2019

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This work is a classic on an almost forgotten precursor to WW II. It is very well researched and touches every aspect of this tragedy that befell the Spanish people in the mid to late 1930s. With the passing of time it is now possible to put some perspective on this violent war so that possibly this type of internal conflict will not happen again. The intervention of foreign powers such as Germany, Italy, and Russia made it a grim war indeed.
Ron Stefani

An excellent book that is well written and that gives amplification ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2014

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An excellent book that is well written and that gives amplification to important but often overlooked facts about this horrific theatre of conflict; it is written both for the professional scholar of history and the layman. D.Sonek.

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Daffy Bibliophile

Well Worth Reading!

Reviewed in Canada on November 21, 2010

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Paul Preston's book (first written in 1986 and updated in 1996 and 2006) gives a very good overall picture of the Spanish Civil War. He shines a light on the various actors in this sordid episode of European history: the Spanish military, the Catholic Church, the anarchists, the socialists, the communists, the Falange, Italy, Germany, France, Britain, the USSR and, of course, Franco.
Preston details the political and diplomatic maneuvering that all of the above took part in and he lays the blame for Franco's success as much on the pretence of neutrality by the French and the British as he does on the active involvement of the Nazis and the Italian Fascists. The Spanish Civil War was a foreshadowing of the greater European war that was just around the corner; Hitler and Stalin were cynical, both motivated by realpolitik, not ideological concerns. Everyone was in Spain, but few had the interests of the Spanish at heart. If this book tells readers one thing, that would be it.

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Iñaki Luengas

Paul Preston is the best!!

Reviewed in Spain on July 26, 2019

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Gran conocedor de la historia de España, ninguno de sus libros decepciona.
Recomiendo este y cualquier libro de Paul Preston.

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R. Maxwell

The hurt of war never leaves.

Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2017

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Very deep and yet one is there right on the lands - in war. Very sad story but one can learn a lot from this book - the power of the ruling class and the struggle of the workers.

ALEXANDER WYPER

One sided love in crap

Reviewed in Spain on March 4, 2016

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I live in andalucia and needed to try and understand the reasons for the conflict. This novel is one sided and cannot give me an even balanced perspective on what occurred. It is biased and appears to have been written by a person with his own political specs on. Waste of money'

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堂垣外弘忠

スペイン内戦の歴史書で、まず最初に読むべき基本的良書である。

Reviewed in Japan on December 4, 2020

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　スペイン内戦の歴史書で、まず最初に読むべき基本的良書である。このほんは、しばしば、「共和国側の立場で書かれている」といわれているが、実は、そうではなく、この著者はスペイン現代史の第一人者であり、記載は極めて中立的である。そもそも、「フランコ側と共和国側の中間をとって中立的」ということがばかげているのであって、スペイン内戦は、典型的な「悪が栄えたためし」であることに留意する必要があるのである。
　また、スペイン内戦の影響は現在も続いているのであって、カタロニアやバスク地方の独立問題はその例であり、現在でも継続してスペインをむしばむ経済的後進性もその起源は、この内戦にあるのである。
　なお、先進国の一国主義や社会主義国（スペイン内の左翼を含む）の腐敗が原因で敗れたこの内戦やハンガリー動乱を眼前に見た後でさえ、戦前戦後の日本の最高峰に属する知識人たちが、社会主義を正しく評価できなかったことは、驚くべきことである。
　本書の英文は、単語はそれほどでもないが、学者だけあって文章はかなり複雑で、流し読みしていると、意味が取れなくて読み返すことがしばしばありました。

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