The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain write by Paul Preston. This book was released on 2012-04-16. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work. Evoking such classics as Anne Applebaum’s Gulag and Robert Conquest’s The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be drawn of the atrocities of Franco’s Spain—from torture and judicial murders to the abuse of women and children. Paul Preston provides an unforgettable account of the systematic terror carried out by Spain’s fascist government.
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain write by Paul Preston. This book was released on 2012-03-22. The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Selected as the Sunday Times History Book of the Year for 2012, this is a meticulous work of scholarship from the foremost historian of 20th-century Spain.
Franco
Franco - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Franco write by Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez. This book was released on 2013-07-18. Franco available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. General Francisco Franco, also called the Caudillo, was the dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. His life has been examined in many previous biographies. However, most of these have been traditional, linear biographies that focus on Franco’s military and political careers, neglecting the significance of who exactly Franco was for the millions of Spaniards over whom he ruled for almost forty years. In this new biography Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez looks at Franco from a fresh perspective, emphasizing the cultural and social over the political. Cazorla-Sanchez's Franco uses previously unknown archival sources to analyse how the dictator was portrayed by the propaganda machine, how the opposition tried to undermine his prestige, and what kind of opinions, rumours and myths people formed of him, and how all these changed over time. The author argues that the collective construction of Franco’s image emerged from a context of material needs, the political traumas caused by the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), the complex cultural workings of a society in distress, political manipulation, and the lack of any meaningful public debate. Cazorla-Sanchez's Franco is a study of Franco’s life as experienced and understood by ordinary people; by those who loved or admired him, by those who hated or disliked him, and more generally, by those who had no option but to accommodate their existence to his rule. The book has a significance that goes well beyond Spain, as Cazorla-Sanchez explores the all-too-common experience of what it is like to live under the deep shadow cast by an always officially praised, ever present, and long lasting dictator.
Hitler's Shadow Empire
Hitler's Shadow Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hitler's Shadow Empire write by Pierpaolo Barbieri. This book was released on 2015. Hitler's Shadow Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pitting fascists and communists in a showdown for supremacy, the Spanish Civil War has long been seen as a grim dress rehearsal for World War II. Francisco Franco’s Nationalists prevailed with German and Italian military assistance—a clear instance, it seemed, of like-minded regimes joining forces in the fight against global Bolshevism. In Hitler’s Shadow Empire Pierpaolo Barbieri revises this standard account of Axis intervention in the Spanish Civil War, arguing that economic ambitions—not ideology—drove Hitler’s Iberian intervention. The Nazis hoped to establish an economic empire in Europe, and in Spain they tested the tactics intended for future subject territories. “The Spanish Civil War is among the 20th-century military conflicts about which the most continues to be published...Hitler’s Shadow Empire is one of few recent studies offering fresh information, specifically describing German trade in the Franco-controlled zone. While it is typically assumed that Nazi Germany, like Stalinist Russia, became involved in the Spanish Civil War for ideological reasons, Pierpaolo Barbieri, an economic analyst, shows that the motives of the two main powers were quite different. —Stephen Schwartz, Weekly Standard
Twentieth-Century Spain
Twentieth-Century Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twentieth-Century Spain write by Julián Casanova. This book was released on 2014-07-03. Twentieth-Century Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a much-needed new overview of Spanish social and political history which sets developments in twentieth-century Spain within a broader European context. Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, and Carlos Gil Andrés chart the country's experience of democracy, dictatorship and civil war and its dramatic transformation from an agricultural and rural society to an industrial and urban society fully integrated into Europe. They address key questions and issues that continue to be discussed and debated in contemporary historiography, such as why the Republic was defeated, why Franco's dictatorship lasted so long and what mark it has left on contemporary Spain. This is an essential book for students as well as for anyone interested in Spain's turbulent twentieth century.
