Dispelling myths about the Spanish Civil War.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: European Affairs | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Mosettig, Michael | Copyright information

The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 By Antony Beevor Penguin Books, 2006, 560 pages

One message permeates this latest English-language account of the much-chronicled Spanish Civil War: that it was the rarest of wars because the losers wrote most of the history.

For more than 35 years from the victory of his Nationalist forces until the dictator's death in 1975, Francisco Franco's Spain lived a world apart from the political, economic, social,...

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