A fresh and acclaimed account of the Spanish Civil War by the bestselling author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem To mark the 70th anniversary. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War’s outbreak, Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter. The 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July Antony Beevor – the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin: The.
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The Nationalist rebels were aided by Hitler and Mussolini, but the Republic was also aided and eventually controlled by another dictatorship, Stalin.
The Battle for Spain
The strategy of the Communist dominated army was for conventional mass assaults in which the best units and equipment were concentrated against a relatively short section of the fascist line.
The narration is dry, just imagine “general xxx- never spoken before in the book- went to city yyy- never spoken before in the book, and you have spahish idea how the city is- and fought zzz leftist republican movement there”. The clvil major banks in Spain were rewarded for their efforts for the Nationalists.
The Exiles and the Second World War. So many actors are involved, all with different motives—communists, anarchists, republicans, trade unionists, conservatives, falangists, carlists, monarchists, Basques, Catalans, Germans, Italians, Soviets, Americans, British, French—that presenting the war as a clean story is impossible.
Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for 5 years before resigning his commission. There were brilliant documentaries by Orwell and Koestler. Feb 24, David Nichols rated it really liked it Shelves: Compiled by Martin Chilton.
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War by antony beevor – Telegraph
If there was one suggestion I’d make to Beevor, it would be to add a few pages to talk about the declining spaniish of Franco leading to his death in No trivia or quizzes yet. I don’t really fault Beevor for not posing these questions. It’s akin to watching a train heading into the abyss, you know bsevor it’s going, you wanted it to change for the better and the rational part of you knows that it wasn’t going to happen.
Jul 29, Dachokie rated it liked it Shelves: Mass murders and executions were perpetrated on each side. He also shows how Britain’s non-intervention policy assisted the fascist cause. I’m still not sure I do; The Battle for Spain reads like Gibbons’ later Decline and Fall volumes — tribes with neither names nor leaders worth remembering, a tragic comedy of incompetence, fracture and, masked in volunteerism’s guise, imperialism and mercenarism as crass as anything going on in Leopold’s Congo.
The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by antony beevor
The hatred between the sides was fundamental to the harshness of the warfare. The Stalin government was supporting the opposing Republic for much the same reasons with less success. For all of its faults, and it was no Jeffersonian-Democracy, it was clearly better than what it eventually became or what would follow. The Socialists, Marxists who were themselves divided between the Stalinists and Trotskyitesliberal-democrats, peasant parties, Christian-socialists, home bdevor brass and anarchists more and less supported the shaky government while monarchists, colonial army officers, nationalists and factions within the Catholic hierarchy were deeply hostile.
Leading up to the events of the aristocracy, ruling elite and the Roman Catholic Church has become more and more distanced from the realities of everyday life in Spain. But there is no reason to assume that the other side would have behaved better.
The Battle for Madrid. Tbe internecine struggles antoby the Republicans, with the rise of the communists, made it even harder. Jun 10, Geoffrey Fox rated it liked it Shelves: LovellKevin Windle Limited preview – This gives us a good basis for working out the next part of the job, forming and testing hypotheses that may better explain the events and so help us understand other phenomena that may or may not be comparable factional conflict in Iraq today, for example — or Ukraine.
One thing that repeatedly struck me as I read through this book was the contrast in efficiency between the nationalists and the republicans. Like what you are reading?
The psychopathic General Queipo de Llano, who also encouraged rape, promised to hunt down Republicans without mercy and “if they’re already dead, I shall kill them again”. El primero es preferable moralmente y totalmente inadecuado en sus medios; y el segundo usa medios eficaces para cumplir objetivos injustos.
This may be the case, but then he would have to explain why Spain was able to correct its track in the s, whereas the Soviet Union was unable to do so in the s If the Francoist economy was able to re-generate itself, it must have been because it was capable of re-generation. The Collapse of the Republic.
Review: The Spanish Civil War by Antony Beevor | Anarchist Writers
The Battle for Spain, which covers the Spanish Civil War, is a jaw dropping, mind blowing look at a clusterfck in motion. I’ve recently read Antony Beevor’s outstanding history of the Spanish Civil War and he makes it shamefully clear that many in the highest political circles in England supported the spamish coup. The Nationalists, a mixture of army officers, the Carlist forces in the north an odd sort anton very traditional Catholic monarchists with some popular supportthe Falange party something like the Italian fascists and the Catholic hierarchy were more united in their goals.
The Battle for Spain: But it is a very welcome break from the normal pattern of mainstream military histories of the Spanish Revolution. Do read it if you want to know what humanity is capable of at its worst. The Rising of the Generals. He gives a balanced but bloodless account of the Spanish Civil War,which feels trustworthy because he criticizes both sides in equal measure; yet, he fails to help the reader understand the volcanic passions that motivated the participants and killed a half-million victims.
This produced the ideal grounds for dissent and the setting up of a socialist state, much to the concern of the military of the time.
There were ground-breaking academic works by Paul Preston, Raymond Carr and others. This website uses cookies.