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La Guerra Civil española
by Preston, Paul, García, José Pablo
fromHistoria (Editorial Debate)
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"The Spanish Civil War by Paul Preston (one of the most internationally renowned Hispanicists) is one of the reference texts on the conflict that struck Spain between 1936 and 1939 and marked the rest of the twentieth century. Now, eighty years after the coup that triggered the …
"The mass killing of civilians in incidents of 'collateral damage', especially as a result of air bombardment, represents one of the most emotive and ethically urgent issues of the contemporary world. Many experts see the civil war in Spain (1936-9) as the original site of this …
La guerra civile spagnola: una storia del Novecento
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"This is a new and comprehensive analysis of the forces of the Spanish left - interpreted broadly - during the civil war of 1936-9, and the first of its kind for more than thirty years." "The book argues two crucial propositions. First, that the wartime responses (and limitation…
"David Caute's wide-ranging study examines how outstanding novelists of the Cold War era conveyed the major issues of contemporary politics and history. In the United States and Western Europe the political novel flourished in the 1930s and 1940s, the crisis years of economic de…
Combining military, political, cultural, social, and oral history, Sebastian Balfour narrates for the first time the development of a brutalised, interventionist army that played a crucial role in the victory of the Francoists in the Spanish Civil War. Spain's new colonial ventu…
Deadly Embrace explains how the Francoist forces were unable to defeat Moroccan guerillas and turned to chemical weapons to break the impasse. Later the Francoists used Moroccan troops to destroy the Second Republic during the Spanish Civil War. Combining military, political, c…
Guernica: über Gewalt und politische Kunst
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Type: Book
Die Zerstörung der baskischen Stadt Gernika am 26. April 1937 gilt als das Symbol für die Grausamkeit des Krieges. Diese Bedeutung verdankt er letztlich einem einzigen Kunstwerk, nämlich Picassos Bild "Guernica."
The Spanish Civil War has long been the stuff of legend. Thousands of brave young men from all over the Western world, most of them organized by their local Communist parties, rushed to Spain to support the democratic Republic against right-wing forces led by rebellious generals…