THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR, A Very Short Introduction
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2005
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loginAmid the wrenching catastrophes of 20th-century European history,the Spanish Civil War continues today to exert a particular fascination.Certainly this force of attraction cannot be explained in terms of thegeographical or human scale of the conflict or the technological horrorsit witnessed. For the Spanish strife is dwarfed by other conflicts – interms of material destruction and human tragedy. This is true even if weinclude in our calculations the continuing horror of mass killing andincarceration that was the ‘post-war’ in 1940s Spain. But our enduringengagement with the Spanish Civil War is undeniable. It has generatedover fifteen thousand books – a textual epitaph that puts it on a par withthe Second World War.
