![]() ![]() ![]() On one side was the Popular Front government – the Republic – whose socialist leader, Largo Caballero, had openly threatened civil war if the Right won. After the election of February 1936 the division was stark. “When Marx has more effect than hormones, there is nothing to be done.” He never forgot the hate on the face of a tram driver as a beautiful, well dressed young woman stepped off. In one of the many telling anecdotes which bring the book alive, Beevor repeats a story told by the philosopher Julián Marías. It was a bloodbath which transformed brothers into anonymous ideological enemies. It was published first with great acclaim in Spain, where, even after 70 years, the wounds of this terrible conflict are still open.Īs Beevor points out, it is wrong to describe the Civil War as a “fratricidal” conflict. The Battle for Spain is a heavily revised version of his 1982 book and takes into account material available in the newly-opened Russian archives. Antony Beevor, the acclaimed author of Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall, has now thrown his contribution onto the growing pile. There has been an explosion of scholarship about the Spanish Civil War since the death of El Caudillo, Generalísimo Francisco Franco, in 1975. The Battle For Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1938 ![]()
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