The Battle for Spain, (Paperback)

from kukulaj

A plenty complicated mess... I don't know my way around Spain or Spanish politics of the 1930s, and this book is filled with places and people and parties. Still, Beevor manages to tell the story in a way that didn't confuse me too severely... though I am plenty overwhelmed. The whole thing is ho...

from gommecourt

A comprehensive and detailed book about a war broadly unknown to me but which somehow left me unsatisfied. Although I now know a lot more about the conduct of the war, the personalities involved and their relationships somehow elude me and these seem key to the conduct and outcome of the conflict...

from mackthefinger

Engrossing account of the civil war that plagued Spain from 36-39. It took a while to get into, because its not just the Red's v Fascists - the battles between the rival factions within these were often as bloody. There's a whole swathe of acronymns of groups and personalities involved, and it do...

from Miro

Antony Beevor provides a very illuminating account of the background and events of the Spanish Civil War. A surprise was the extent of undercover Communist infiltration of the Republican government (eventually complete) and the clear plan to establish a Bolshevik state on soviet lines. Communist ...

from Novak

Battle for Spain. There is a heartbreaking grim reality in this long read. The reader will lose track of the many factions killing one another in the late 1930s Spain and the reasons why. It changes from day to day and week to week. The factions regularly change their names and sometimes their al...