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

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 - Antony Beevor [epub]

The Spanish Civil War, even after all these years, remains one of the most passionately debated conflicts of modern times. Many see it as the opening round of the Second World War. Some supporters of the Republic still believe that a victory of the left in Spain would have defeated fascism and saved Europe from the horrors to come. Nationalists, on the other hand, argue that the civil war, almost a world war by proxy, was in fact the opening round of the Cold War between western civilisation and Soviet dictatorship.

This book charts not only the course of the war in a fresh light, but illuminates the vicious infighting on both sides. The hopes and fears of a whole generation foundered in disillusionment and despair at the collapse of the Spanish Republic, under the onslaught of General Franco’s forces supported by the Nazi Condor Legion and Mussolini’s intevention with ground and air forces