The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939

A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge and D-DayRevised to mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War’s outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated 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.'This book is destined for the first rank of general histories of the [Spanish] Civil War.'—Santos Juliß, El Pafs