The Spanish Civil War

Cambridge University Press

2012

xv, 268 p.

Cambridge essential histories

9781107002265

Introduction : civil war in twentieth-century Europe --1. Modernization and conflict in Spain --2. From revolutionary insurrection to popular front --3. The breakdown of democracy --4. The military insurrection of the eighteenth of July --5. The Battle of Madrid: the first turning point --6. Revolution --7. Terror --8. A war of religion --9. Franco's counterrevolution --10. Foreign intervention and nonintervention --11. Soviet policy in Spain, 1936-1939 --12. The propaganda and culture war --13. A second counterrevolution?: the power struggle in the republican zone --14. The decisive northern campaigns of 1937-1938 --15. The war at sea and in the air --16. Civil wars within a civil war --17. The war in perspective --Conclusion: Costs and consequences: the long dictatorship.

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