The battle for Spain : the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 / Antony Beevor.

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Published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Old Spain and the second republic
  • 1. Their most Catholic majesties
  • 2. Royal exit
  • 3. The second republic
  • 4. The popular front
  • 5. The fatal paradox
  • Pt. 2. The war of two Spains
  • 6. The rising of the generals
  • 7. The struggle for control
  • 8. The red terror
  • 9. The white terror
  • 10. The nationalist zone
  • 11. The republican zone
  • 12. The army of Africa and the people's militias
  • Pt. 3. The civil war becomes international
  • 13. Arms and the diplomats
  • 14. Sovereign states
  • 15. The Soviet Union and the Spanish Republic
  • 16. The international brigades and the soviet advisers
  • 17. The battle for Madrid
  • Pt. 4. World war by proxy
  • 18. The metamorphosis of the war
  • 19. The battles of the Jarama and Guadalajara
  • 20. The war in the north
  • 21. The Propaganda War and the intellectuals
  • Pt. 5. Internal tensions
  • 22. The struggle for power
  • 23. The civil war within the civil war
  • 24. The battle of Brunete
  • 25. The beleaguered republic
  • 26. The war in Aragón
  • 27. The destruction of the northern front and of republican idealism
  • Pt. 6. The route to disaster
  • 28. The battle of Teruel and Franco's 'victorious sword'
  • 29. Hopes of peace destroyed
  • 30. Arriba Espanã!
  • 31. The battle of the Ebro
  • 32. The republic in the European crisis
  • 33. The fall of Catalonia
  • 34. The collapse of the republic
  • Pt. 7. Vae victis!
  • 35. The new Spain and the Franquist gulag
  • 36. The exiles and the Second World War
  • 37. The unfinished war
  • 38. Lost causes.