The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 PDF
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THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN Books by the same author The Spanish Civil War (1982) Inside the British Army (1990) Crete: the Battle and the Resistance (1991) Paris After the Liberation (with Artemis Cooper, 1994) Stalingrad (1998) Berlin: The Downfall (2002) The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (2004) A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941– 1945 Edited and translated with Luba Vinogradova (2005) THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR 1936–1939 ANTONY BEEVOR Weidenfeld & Nicolson LONDON First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson An earlier version of this book was published by Orbis Publishing Ltd in 1982 under the title The Spanish Civil War © Ocito Ltd 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher. The right of Antony Beevor to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-1-1012-0120-6 The Orion Publishing Group’s policy is to use papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products and made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The logging and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Weidenfeld & Nicolson The Orion Publishing Group Ltd Orion House 5 Upper Saint Martin’s Lane London, WC2H 9EA www.orionbooks.co.uk For Gonzalo Pontón with all my gratitude for all his help CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS MAPS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION POLITICAL PARTIES, GROUPINGS AND ORGANIZATIONS INITIALS PART ONE: Old Spain and the Second Republic 1 Their Most Catholic Majesties 2 Royal Exit 3 The Second Republic 4 The Popular Front 5 The Fatal Paradox PART TWO: The War of Two Spains 6 The Rising of the Generals 7 The Struggle for Control 8 The Red Terror 9 The White Terror 10 The Nationalist Zone 11 The Republican Zone 12 The Army of Africa and the People’s Militias PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT I PART THREE: The Civil War Becomes International 13 Arms and the Diplomats 14 Sovereign States 15 The Soviet Union and the Spanish Republic PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT II 16 The International Brigades and the Soviet Advisers 17 The Battle for Madrid PART FOUR: World War by Proxy 18 The Metamorphosis of the War 19 The Battles of the Jarama and Guadalajara 20 The War in the North 21 The Propaganda War and the Intellectuals PART FIVE: Internal Tensions 22 The Struggle for Power 23 The Civil War within the Civil War 24 The Battle of Brunete 25 The Beleaguered Republic 26 The War in Aragón 27 The Destruction of the Northern Front and of Republican Idealism PART SIX: The Route to Disaster 28 The Battle of Teruel and Franco’s ‘Victorious Sword’ 29 Hopes of Peace Destroyed 30 Arriba España! 31 The Battle of the Ebro 32 The Republic in the European Crisis 33 The Fall of Catalonia PHOTOGRAPHIC INSERT III 34 The Collapse of the Republic PART SEVEN: Vae Victis! 35 The New Spain and the Franquist Gulag 36 The Exiles and the Second World War 37 The Unfinished War 38 Lost Causes BIBLIOGRAPHY SOURCES NOTES INDEX
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