The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939 - 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 Republic at War 1936-1939 write by Helen Graham. This book was released on 2002-12-19. The Spanish Republic at War 1936-1939 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comprehensive 2002 analysis of the Spanish left during the civil war of 1936-9.
The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 - 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 Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 write by Michael Alpert. This book was released on 2013-02-28. The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a long-awaited translation of a definitive account of the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Michael Alpert examines the origins, formation and performance of the Republican Army and sets the Spanish Civil War in its broader military context. He explores the conflicts between communists and Spanish anarchists about how the war should be fought, as well as the experience of individual conscripts, problems of food, clothing and arms, and the role of women in the new army. The book contains extensive discussion of international aspects, particularly the role of the International Brigades and of the Soviet Russian advisers. Finally, it discusses the final uprising of professional Republican officers against the Government and the almost unconditional surrender to Franco. Professor Alpert also provides detailed statistics for the military forces available to Franco and to the Republic, and biographies of the key figures on both sides.
Spain In Our Hearts
Spain In Our Hearts - 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 Spain In Our Hearts write by Adam Hochschild. This book was released on 2016-03-29. Spain In Our Hearts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed. For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa’s photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war: a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman who went to wartime Spain on her honeymoon, a Swarthmore College senior who was the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid, a pair of fiercely partisan, rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the war from opposites sides, and a swashbuckling Texas oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his oil — at reduced prices, and on credit. It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. Spain in Our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best. “With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English. A humane and moving book."—New Republic “Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild’s] book so intimate and moving is its human scale.” — Dwight Garner, New York Times
Republic of Egos
Republic of Egos - 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 Republic of Egos write by Michael Seidman. This book was released on 2002-11-23. Republic of Egos available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most histories of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) have examined major leaders or well-established political and social groups to explore class, gender, and ideological struggles. The war in Spain was marked by momentous conflicts between democracy and dictatorship, Communism and fascism, anarchism and authoritarianism, and Catholicism and anticlericalism that still provoke our fascination. In Republic of Egos, Michael Seidman focuses instead on the personal and individual experiences of the common men and women who were actors in a struggle that defined a generation and helped to shape our world. By examining the roles of anonymous individuals, families, and small groups who fought for their own interests and survival—and not necessarily for an abstract or revolutionary cause—Seidman reveals a powerful but rarely considered pressure on the outcome of history. He shows how price controls and inflation in the Republican zone encouraged peasant hoarding, black marketing, and unrest among urban workers. Soldiers of the Republican Army responded to material shortages by looting, deserting, and fraternizing with the enemy. Seidman’s focus on average, seemingly nonpolitical individuals provides a new vision of both the experience and outcome of the war.
The Spanish Republic and Civil War
The Spanish Republic and Civil War - 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 Republic and Civil War write by Julián Casanova. This book was released on 2010-07-29. The Spanish Republic and Civil War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Spanish Civil War has gone down in history for the horrific violence that it generated. The climate of euphoria and hope that greeted the overthrow of the Spanish monarchy was utterly transformed just five years later by a cruel and destructive civil war. Here Julián Casanova, one of Spain's leading historians, offers a magisterial new account of this critical period in Spanish history. He exposes the ways in which the Republic brought into the open simmering tensions between Catholics and hardline anticlericalists, bosses and workers, Church and State, order and revolution. In 1936 these conflicts tipped over into the sacas, paseos and mass killings which are still passionately debated today. The book also explores the decisive role of the international instability of the 1930s in the duration and outcome of the conflict. Franco's victory was in the end a victory for Hitler and Mussolini and for dictatorship over democracy.
