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Its more than pages long, but given the complexity of this war, thats hardly superfluous. A full, vivid and deeply serious treatment of a great subject. Since its first publication, hugh thomas s the spanish civil war has become established as the definitive onevolume history of a conflict that continues to provoke intense controversy today. Communists, anarchists, monarchists, fascists, socialists, democrats the various forces of the spanish civil war composed a fabric of the twentieth century itself, and thomas masterfully weaves the diffuse and fascinating threads of the war together in a manner that has established the book as a genuine classic of modern history. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the spanish civil war. In his famous history, hugh thomas presents an objective analysis of a conflict where fascism and democracy, communism and christianity, centralism and regionalism were all at stake and which was a much an international civil war as a spanish one. Paul avrich collection library of congress the events, participants, and consequences of the. A masterpiece of the historians art, hugh thomas s the spanish civil war remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. The spanish civil war is one of the most devastating conflicts of the 20th century. Hugh thomas is the author of, among other books, the spanish civil war 1961, which won the somerset maugham award, the suez affair 1967, cuba. Hugh thomas, historian whose spanish civil war was smuggled. What was it that roused leftwing sympathizers from all over the world to fight against franco between 1936 and 1939. A masterpiece of the historians art, hugh thomass the spanish civil war remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. He also wrote a history of the conquest of mexico by the spaniards that i strongly recommend.
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